With summer nearly gone and school started, it seemed appropriate to have one of those “what I did” posts, but I’m not ambitious enough to talk about much beyond the weekend. 🙂 And even then, Saturday was the only day really worth writing about, Sunday was a lazy day. So let’s see, on Saturday we… Continue reading What I did over the weekend
Author: Jon
Link odds-n-ends
Scanning through my Bloglines Clippings list, found a few items that I’d probably been meaning to point to but hadn’t gotten to yet. Builder has plans for trap club site – from the Bulletin. Yep, that’s the company I work for, promoting one of their next projects. I expect the homes to be very expensive,… Continue reading Link odds-n-ends
Bend celebrities
This looks interesting: The Bend, Oregon Celebrity Weblog.
The country’s safest places to live
According to this list from MSNBC/Forbes, seven of the 10 safest places to live in this country are in the Pacific Northwest. Central Oregon didn’t make the list, presumably because of the Sisters bulge and our general proximity to volcanoes. I’m a little surprised to see Medford/Ashland make the list, though; part of the selection… Continue reading The country’s safest places to live
Season of change
Change, indeed. Today was our eldest’s first day of kindergarten. Huge transition! She’ll be riding a bus and everything. She attends in the afternoon; our youngest is in a new preschool, attends in the mornings, five days a week (at the old preschool it was only three). The schedule change is still taking some getting… Continue reading Season of change
Maybe it’s a good time to learn COBOL
Two interesting factoids from ADTmag’s 2005 Salary Survey: [Application Programmers] Programmers in mainframe and Unix shops make the most, topping $59,000 a year in base salary. By development language environment, programmers in CICS and COBOL shops fare best, drawing average salaries of almost $62,000 for CICS-based development and $59,000 for COBOL. [System Programmers] Mainframe skills… Continue reading Maybe it’s a good time to learn COBOL
Bad, bad day
I may not be posting much this weekend. Today we had to have our oldest cat, Bob, put to sleep. He had a cancerous intestinal tumor that was inoperable. He was also 12 years old, he lived a long good life; we’d raised him from a kitten so this is especially hard. …it’s like losing… Continue reading Bad, bad day
Leeroy Jenkins!
My brother sent me this video the other day, and it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in awhile (you have to be nerdy to really appreciate it though): Leeroy Jenkins (Windows Media File, 5MB). I’ve been laughing over it for days. It’s a clip from the World of WarCraft multiplayer online game, of a group… Continue reading Leeroy Jenkins!
More indications blogging is getting mainstream
Today’s hint that blogging is gradually getting mainstream comes from an article in this month’s Realtor Magazine titled, “Blogging for profit“. It was pointed out to me here at work (since I work for a builder, with real estate agents coming and going). There’s nothing new here, it’s just another introductory article, though there’s an… Continue reading More indications blogging is getting mainstream
Shoe trees
Pril is wondering what the deal is with shoe trees. I’ve been curious about that myself, since seeing one on my Walla Walla trip. I know of two (that I’ve seen personally): the one I just mentioned, on highway 97 south of Grass Valley, I believe, and north of Shaniko, and another one on highway… Continue reading Shoe trees