Babble

You know winter is coming when I start updating my site on time. Presently it’s a balmy 39° with 15 mph winds and rain which has persisted throughout the day. Lovely. I continue to wait patiently for a belated indian summer weekend.

Life has been good lately, but busy. Freelance work continues to pour in and work at the UW is even approaching interesting as we move deeper into table-less CSS land. My department is also anticipating a physical move in February that will put us in much closer proximity to central campus and more importantly the food carts on library mall, come February. Better still, we were recently gifted with the return of Jenny, who used to work in our department in a limited-term position but has now rejoined us full-time, restoring laughter, coat naming and the estrogen balance to the sub-35 population at UComm West.

Some of the stranger events over the last month involved pets. JackO purchased a cuddly animal he named Calvin and my friend and I found a goldfish in the woods who we named Rodney. You can read more about Rodney in the Babble section if you want but it doesn’t end well. Consider yourself forewarned.

On the home front I stripped, sanded and repainted my garage door at the subtle request of my condo association (i.e. "you must do this now"), dismantled and fixed my dishwasher, and also discovered I have white crystally stuff coming out of my hot water heater. After ingesting some of this substance it was determined not to be salt as presumed. Super.

Lastly, I managed to survive another Halloween in Madison without being gassed, sprayed or trampled. Which is somewhat notable. In fact, we actually decided not to go downtown at all Saturday afternoon but within hours I found myself at a party just off State Street drinking wop out of garbage pail next to a giant iPod. Some things are hard to avoid in Madison, and partying on Halloween is definitely one of them.