Punderings

Something something about yet another day working in the old &BigCo;.

Oh – got my paper submission accepted to a prestigous internal conference!  Yay!

Uh-oh – got my paper submission accepted to a prestigous internal conference!  Now I actually have to write this paper, and do a good job since there are pretty smart (and interesting) people I’ll be presenting in front of.  Eeek!

(to be completed)

Well, I didn’t get nearly as much done as I expected, but at least the last half was far better than my first sabbatical!  Although I suppose the wedding part of the first one still beats just about anything else out, except possibly seeing Roxanne chatter on about something…

Went back to work – not even that many emails, most people knew I was away and didn’t bother sending me questions (plus I had logged in several times to fix urgent or really simple things while I was out).  Then spent the first week back working on an urgent and much more important task – which of course technically took a few days, but organizationally… still isn’t complete.  Ha!

Just proving dial-up still works, even if it’s v   e             r     y slow.  More in an edit.

We spent the weekend itself at Mim’s in CT.  The new-traditional way (especially since I could spend the day packing the car) is to come home, have dinner, and wait until it’s almost Roxie’s bedtime.  Then we get in the car, and she falls asleep.  We stop at Dunkin Donuts on the pike, and then enjoy the coffee and sit and talk in the dark (remember how you always used to do that in younger days?) for a couple of hours on the drive.

The weekend was hectic, and I’m not quite sure how.  Everyone came over at various points, and Roxanne had a lot of fun playing with her similarly-aged relatives.  Nice food, as always – thanks Mim!  Unfortunately Roxanne wouldn’t fall asleep, and woke up at 6am each day, so we were pretty beat.  Plus she was under the weather and cranky for most of Sunday.

Labor day itself was a minor train wreck as we were all still tired and Amy had to do some work.  I finally got Roxanne out of the house around 3pm, draggy and tired.  But then we had a great time at the little park, then went to the big park, and did all sorts of stuff: playground, swings, slides (even the BIG slide!), and watched some kites flying.  She says she wants her kite to be blue.  I tried to point out that the sky is blue, which makes that difficult, then thought the better of it.

It turns out we spent over 2 hours at the park when we came home for a quick dinner.  Then I was off to gaming and Amy finished up her work, so we were up late again.  Ugh.  Can’t wait for next weekend to actually catch up on sleep!