Is there a papal chimney cam yet?

Is there a papal chimney cam yet?

Yes.

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Oh my god, I don't want to do anymore work today. Can't I just skive off and go spend too much money at the bookstore?

I am subbing, and I planed on working on my portfolio, but the website I have to use to access it freezes up everytime I try it, so I am pretty bored aussi.

And then I have my last seminar at 4:30. And I slept like ass last night -- for the last several nights, actually.

Peregrine cam at the PG&E building in San Francisco: [link]

We just caught a mouse in the office using a sticky trap. I feel so horrible for the mouse because sticky traps are evil.

I've read James Dobson, when I was a teenager we got the Focus on the Family newsletter and Mom had some of his books. I always ended up frothing at the mouth after reading the newsletter. In one of the books I read (that I think he wrote) he was going off on how immoral and horrible popular music is and as an example he used "Hello, I love you" (don't know if that's the right title -- hello! I love you, won't you tell me your name"). He claimed this song was an indication that young people were running around declaring their love without ever knowing the other person's name. Because if they wrote a song about it then all the young people are doing it.

There was another book I read (by a different "christian" author) that I ended up throwing across the room. It was book geared towards teenagers/young adults and the author was rather proudly writing about a time when his teenage daughter came to him about some problem and he laughed in her face. Unfortunatly I can't remember the exact situation but the attitude was definitly one of teenagers are melodramatic and stupid.

I feel so horrible for the mouse because sticky traps are evil.

yes, they are. I had them in my old place, and the mouse got his feet stuck, and while trying to get unstuck, fell over so that his face was stuck to the trap. ugh. I threw it out, but always felt guilty about it.

Happy Birthday, Beth!

Happy Birthday, Beej!!

Mice (and rats) are creepy. They make my skin crawl. I don't want them hurt and in pain, I just want them to exist in a separate universe, where I would never have to interact with them ever.

It was book geared towards teenagers/young adults and the author was rather proudly writing about a time when his teenage daughter came to him about some problem and he laughed in her face.

Cases like this always make me think it's the kids who are going to have the last laugh when it's time to pick the nursing home.

e-mail etiquette/ client relations question. I sent someone a paper for review one of the days Comcast was having all the problems. I was not sure it had gone through so I followed up a few days later just to make sure it had been received - explaining that I knew it was way too early for the work to have been reviewed - but Comcast had DNS problems that day, and some e-mails sent failed to go through (with no bounce messages).

He wrote back telling me he had received it, and was in fact very happy with my work, even though he had not had time for a formal review yet, and will in fact send a formal review in a few days. (If he does this he will be sending the review earlier than agreed. The fact that he is happy makes me happy because it was part of the deal that if he was not happy I would redo it at no extra charge.)

OK - well normally I would send another note thanking him for his kind words. But I'm really afraid that another e-mail at this point would be taken as a nudge to hurry up and do the review (even if I explicityly said otherwise). And I don't want that to happen - both for the sake of good relations with him, and because I know how freakin busy he is, and don't want him moving this any further up his schedule than it already is. He is a genuinely nice person, and if I send a message he takes as a push he might actually move it up his priority queue.

I don't like not thanking a client for a compliment right away, but I'm really leaning towards waiting for the formal review so as not to be a nudge. Good instinct, or is the delay in expressing appreciation too much of a no-no? Cause I really think no matter how much I said "I don't need the review ahead of schedule, please don't take this as a request to get it done more quickly", he would take it as a request to get it done more quickly.