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August 2004 - Posts

Bad blogger, no biscuit (high protein, Atkins that is)

I sit here typing, typing, with my cafeteria-bought chicken and broccoli/beans combo. I have had to repent of my bad girl  ice cream ways (at least until the Long Weekend) and be good about my health regimen. The traditional food of code warriors: Read More
posted Monday, August 30, 2004 12:43 PM by betsya | 3 Comments

Battening down the hatches and raising the ice cream bars

Well, it's been another wacky week here at MSDN. Not to mention too darn hot. Have I mentioned that my brain melts in the heat? Thought so. One of the things I had to adjust to at Microsoft was the thing called an "OOF" mail, or the "out of office" autoreply Read More
posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 2:02 PM by betsya | 3 Comments

The one time I didn't mind the sun was being bbqed at Scoble's

It's a long and windy road to Robert Scoble's bbq. (That's long and windy, NOT long-er-winded.) But it ends with parking near a cul-de-sac and walking up to the front door and passing two little Sharper Image scooters prone on the grass, and stepping Read More
posted Sunday, August 08, 2004 3:41 PM by betsya | 4 Comments

Community Compatriots Unite!

We've had our first thankfully cool, overcast day here, and I finally feel like I can think again (anyone read Terry Pratchett? and how his troll Detritus' brain functioned better when supercooled?... that's me. :-) ) Today I had a brief but touching Read More
posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 6:44 PM by betsya | 1 Comments