I’m lucky to work with so many fun and creative people @miresball!
Clippy must DIE!!!!
As I struggled with getting a MS Word doc to format the way I wanted to late yesterday I was reminded of one of my favorite “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” moments on NPR. And comforted by the fact that even though Word frustrated me with its inability to perform the simplest of functions consistently at least “Clippy” wasn’t around anymore to taunt me.
A family lost…
The Whittington/Falkenberg family weren’t the only folks I knew and cared for that died on September 11, 2001, but something about the entire family being wiped out made their deaths all the more tragic. After the initial shock and grief came the practical questions - What to do with their house? What about all of their possessions? Who will organize the memorial?
Leslie was my teacher, adviser, mentor in graduate school. I repeat stories and bits of advice she gave me to this day (go ahead and ask me about a sunk cost). Her little girls ran through the student lounge at Georgetown. We played with them, read with them, babysat for them.
The last thing I did before moving from DC to San Diego was visit the Pentagon Memorial - it had just opened. I held my tears back until I reached the very first bench in the field dedicated to little Dana. I was weeping by the time I reached Leslie’s bench.
It’s hard to articulate what it was like to live and work in DC on that day if you weren’t there (folks in New York know). But it’s possible to point to this wonderful family and say “see, this is what we lost that day.”
(See video beginning around the 2:30 mark)
Is that skunk?
Every once and a while I learn something from TV. Last night I learned all sorts of things about skunks, yes skunks, on PBS. But beyond the fact that skunks eat bees (don’t their tongues get stung?!?), the most important thing I learned is that tomato juice doesn’t counteract the stink spray, but a precise combination of hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and laundry detergent does. Now that’s useful information.
I love ketchup
Chef Sang Yoon experiments at home with the condiment he doesn’t serve at Father’s Office.Ketchup (hold the tomatoes)
Missing my favorite fruity drink—Rum Swizzle. Video tutorial on mixing one up.
Taking a nostalgic ride on the world's oldest roller coasters
You can keep your fancy loopers and hanging harnesses. Nothing compares to a ride on a classic wooden roller coaster.
I may be physically at my desk today, but my soul is still dancing along the pink sand beaches of Bermuda…
