Fat Bald Jeff

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Stairs....day 6

Used the elevator once.

Suck it.

Family visit

Mom, dad, sis (and husband) are coming for visit for a few days.
Shields up. Quib-phasers off.
Let the drinking begin!

Friday, September 23, 2005

Stairs....day 5

Turns out that there were actually 10 stairs on the first switchback going from the lobby floor to the 1st (not 11 as I said earlier).

That means that the lobby floor is '3 steps' shorter than the 1st floor (the thought of which puts a little spring in my step!)

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Stairs....day 4

I work in a weird building....

the stairwell from the lobby floor to the 1st floor has a switchback. there are 11 steps on the first one and 6 steps on the second.

in the stairwell from the first to the second, there are 9 each.

Is the lobby floor of my building '2 steps' shorter than the 1st floor?

I think I enjoy going from the lobby floor to the first floor better....turning the corner and seeing only 6 steps makes me happy.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Stairs...Day 3

This morning I bounded up the stairs with unlimited exuberance....

Yeah, whatever.

I huffed and I puffed and I took a break on the 2nd floor landing.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

NASA.......35 years later, same cost, and LONGER timeline!

So NASA has thrown down the gauntlet. $100 Billion, 12 years.....to the moon.

Wouldn't it be neat to say, "Hey....let's see if we can beat them." Imagine a group of people get together...somebody with money, somebody with aerospace experience, a few engineers, a few programmers....and they do it for $10 billion and in 6 years?

Look what the SpaceShipOne only cost $30 million to develop (yeah yeah, I know it only achieved 'low earth orbit' altitude of 67 miles)

I mean, NASA isn't really attemping anything new here (according to this site http://www.asi.org/adb/m/02/07/apollo-cost.html) it cost about $100 billion in today's dollars to go to the moon last time. You'd think we could do it cheaper today, right? It took 10 years last time...they are going to do it in 12 this time....even slower!

hmmm....imagine....

Stairs, Day 2

hmm...one less *huff*, but two extra *coughs*. Does that mean it's getting easier or harder?

Monday, September 19, 2005

Associating pain

Just about every other day, I shift my monitor (either to avoid glare or to prevent my office mates from seeing 'questionable' material on my screen)....and in doing so I stretch the power cord such that it just barely makes the connection...and then blank screen.

I have to then get up, walk around my desk (monitor and desk are too big just to reach behind it) and re-seat the power cord.

Now, you might think that I would:

A. get a longer power cord.
or
B. Move the monitor or computer so as to make the cord not so tight.

Nope...I fall back on option C.

C. Curse, throw whatever I am holding, grumble loudly and get up and walk around the desk....

Tony Robbins tells us (Awake the Giant Within) that I associate more pain with fixing the problem permanently (option A or B) than I do with the almost daily trip around me desk.

*sigh*.

Stairs...day 1

*puff* started *wheeze* to *cough* use the *huff* stairs at *cough* work.
Going well *wheeze* I think. *cough* *cough*

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No topic is off-limits, no story too off-color.
Self-deprecation is the watchword.