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Obligatory Post
Dec. 21st, 2009 10:26 amIt has been a busy month since Thanksgiving, and I've not really posted much in that time so I thought I'd sum up:
- Two holiday parties (Microsoft and DigiPen)
- Finished up DigiPen for the Fall semester and turned in final grades. Due to budget, it appears I won't be teaching again in the Spring although I might be doing some lectures.
- Which is fine, because things at work are shifting dramatically, and with a ton of work-related events and conferences in February it would be pretty difficult to cover a full section at DigiPen right now in any case.
- Our furnace was bust for about 2 weeks due to a part failure. Thanks to the original homeowner's lack of diligence, and various technical hurdles set up by the furnace manufacturers lawyers, it was not covered by warranty even though it was clearly a manufacturers defect. In any case, it has since been fixed and we are warmer. It was poorly timed with Seattle's cold snap, but we managed on some nice space heaters and occasionally running the furnace anyhow with CO alarms installed to ensure we didn't kill ourselves.
- Saturday we had Margo's annual cookie party, now relocated to Seattle. Seven kinds of cookies, about 120 of each, plus three drinks. Everyone in attendance had a good time, although we are still taking back significant cookieage to Texas.
- Two holiday parties (Microsoft and DigiPen)
- Finished up DigiPen for the Fall semester and turned in final grades. Due to budget, it appears I won't be teaching again in the Spring although I might be doing some lectures.
- Which is fine, because things at work are shifting dramatically, and with a ton of work-related events and conferences in February it would be pretty difficult to cover a full section at DigiPen right now in any case.
- Our furnace was bust for about 2 weeks due to a part failure. Thanks to the original homeowner's lack of diligence, and various technical hurdles set up by the furnace manufacturers lawyers, it was not covered by warranty even though it was clearly a manufacturers defect. In any case, it has since been fixed and we are warmer. It was poorly timed with Seattle's cold snap, but we managed on some nice space heaters and occasionally running the furnace anyhow with CO alarms installed to ensure we didn't kill ourselves.
- Saturday we had Margo's annual cookie party, now relocated to Seattle. Seven kinds of cookies, about 120 of each, plus three drinks. Everyone in attendance had a good time, although we are still taking back significant cookieage to Texas.
