Month: March 2004

Things that have come up in conversation or found on webpages within the last 24 hours:

Zombies, Wal-Mart, corn dogs and iPods.

On Monday, while driving out of the parking garage at work, I noticed a sign off to the side, unused. It said “Parking Lot Full”, and was obviously designed to be used in the late mornings so that people didn’t have to drive all the way up to the roof, turn around and come all the way back down. I laughed out loud, because this was a literal sign that the company acknowledged the parking problem, yet refuses to create new parking spots because of the city regulations. (Part of the deal that allowed Yahoo! to build the campus in Moffet Park involved promising that a certain percentage of their employees would use “alternative means of transportation.”)

On Tuesday morning, I drove all the way up to the roof, then found the parking lot full, and had to come back down. On my way out of the garage, I looked for the sign. It was nowhere to be found.

You know I suddenly just realized I know who and are. You know, that whole “face to name” thing.

Okay, I’m slow. 😛

I need to upload some photos… I’ve got quite a few just sitting in my camera waiting to be organized. It’s been a while since I updated my photos page, or anything on my homepage, for that matter.

Tickets to the Final Fantasy concert have been purchased by Dom. I was going to make a post today that said “Oh, woe is me, I want to go down to the concert, but I don’t want to go by myself, whine whine whine,” but then Dom called me on the phone telling me he could go after all, and that’s that.

So at this point, I’m pretty sure I’m not going to stick around for E3, unless I can pull connections to get in, and even then I don’t know if I should take a whole week off work anyway. But it shall be a pleasant four-day weekend at least.

Tomorrow is Anime Overdose (keep wanting to type/say “Overdrive“) — once again helping out with Karaoke, anyone who’s around, be sure to say hello.

I seem to be on the “finally recovering” stages of a week long cold, back down to the “occasionally runny nose”, where at one point I was at the “Please oh please let me get these bowling balls out of my upper sinuses… what was that? I can’t hear you, my inner ears have cotton stuffed in them” stage. I’ve gone through a frightening amount of Kleenex this week.

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Last week, I worked 40 hours for the first time since I’ve been contracting. Of course, this meant I was at the office much more than 40 hours, as there is always web browsing time and lunch that I’m not charging for. As the week went on, I started getting a runny nose. Over the weekend, it turned into a stuffy nose… and now I wake up with a cough. I’ve got no fever, but I’m definitely not going in to work today.

I work 40 hours… I get sick. Could it be, I’m allergic to work?