Lurking

[resqgeek]

Today is my first full day at the office this week. I spent the last three days attending a technical conference in Old Town Alexandria (about a mile from my office). The Office paid for the conference out of the technical training budget, and it was a nice break from my usual routine, but it limited my on-line access. I've been lurking, reading everyone's entries, but I haven't had time to post much in the way of comments.

Tuesday night, the conference attendees went on a dessert cruise on the Potomac River, which was included in the conference fee. I've lived in this area for fifteen years, and have never been out on the river (at least not down here by DC and Alexandria), so I decided to go along. I had a fun evening, chatting with the various researchers and engineers about their work, and got to see Washington from a very different point of view. Unfortunately it got dark early in the cruise, and I just couldn't get good pictures from a moving boat in the dark. I'll take a look at what I did get and post any interesting pictures I did get.

Of course being out of the office for two and a half days allowed things to explode on my desk, so now I've got a number of small fires to put out. I think I can get them taken care of today, and then I can try to get back to my normal routine.

Comments

[suellenr.livejournal.com]

Here's an idea: let the fires burn out of control, and soon your desk will be all clear (if not gone)! heheh

[resqgeek]

Heh! The only problem with that theory is that there is an apparently endless supply of fuel sufficient to not only keep the fires burning indefinitely, but to allow them to grow larger over time!