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Things are, as usual, never dull on the job. Due to this cold as well as wanting to not walk around very much on my sore feet, I worked from...

Nice to watch a couple NY baseball games, even though the Yankees lost in extra innings and the Mets are being clobbered as I type. I've...

Well, I'm coming back to the area on Saturday and Sunday on my way to and from Philadelphia, but this was my last day in the office for ...

White Rabbits ! Do they have that superstition in India? Regardless, that's where one of my partners is headed next month, so I spent ha...

Got through my commute and work day just fine, no real down time at all in the office, but my feet were bothering me too much to visit my pa...

No real news today, I just couldn't wake up after yesterday's driving and car stress. I'm not used to being out and about two we...

The day started out a bit difficult for me. My back's been bothering me all week, and I had to schlep an Amazon return in to Whole Foods...

The back is still twingy, and I'm sure the backpack this morning didn't help, but the naproxen kicked in and by noon I was busy enou...

Not permanent by any means, I'm still doing naproxen in the morning for the next few days, but I could actually move around without pain...

Well, I thought my work-related tech issues were behind me, but this morning a firmwide glitch stopped all external emails from arriving, so...

Now that my tech issues at work are temporarily behind me, I can again concentrate on my personal health and such. To that end, I wore my ne...

Wow, what a difference a good night's sleep makes! Somehow I put away all the laundry yesterday so that helped me get a good start, the ...

Today was yet another call offering voluntary termination to a portion of my company's workforce. Since I qualify for the maximum I was ...

After three straight days on my feet, especially with yesterday's commute (MTA's BusTime lied to me about my commuter bus not being ...

Still somewhat exhausted from yesterday's sojourn, I nonetheless schlepped into the city with my backpack to help greet a bunch of peer ...

I woke up earlier than I'd planned with what I guess was a touch of indigestion, and my heart area didn't feel quite right for most ...

Ugh, I've been up since around 4:30 AM, very uncomfortable and too warm in bed, even with the AC on. Fortunately we were finally able to...

Fun day at work and at home, trying to juggle lots of job and personal stuff at the same time. I feel like I'm at a ping pong game or so...

No baseball (Home Run Derby doesn't count, particularly as they've changed the rules again and none of it really matters anyway), no...

I was right, I didn't sleep well at all last night, maybe 3-4 hours at most, and it took its toll today. Thank goodness it was a work-fr...