I'm very jealous of shrift's fancy meal. But one of the many things i do like about travellin so much for work is that I get to eat in semi-fancy restaurants (nothing like THAT! and sometimes applebee's or mcd's!) on the company dime frequently. Where I'm all "Sure, I'll have the appetizer! Not my money!"

tell me how I'm supposed to respond to an RFP question requiring us to identify all of our offices (there are 160-some)

"CompanyXXX has over 160 offices throughout the world. We have ## offices in the United States, with our main offices located in Chicagonatti and Philabaltimore. A list can be provided as necessary.

"CompanyXXX has over 160 offices throughout the world. We have ## offices in the United States, with our main offices located in Chicagonatti and Philabaltimore. A list can be provided as necessary.

I might also mention the offices that are going to be directly involved in the project or have the special skills that are looking for as in "Our office in Washingandria will have direct accountability for the project, with support from Richmoburg and Tallaflorida"

I got an e-mail today from someone on Flickr, offering $15 for license to use my picture of a brown recluse spider [link] in a print-on-demand book he is putting together, Eight-Legged Marvels: Beauty and Design in the World of Spiders.

Yay?

shrift, that meal sounded amazing. Aaaaand made me want to go to the Herbfarm.

Speaking of dinner, we went to one of our favorite places for comfort food, and the chef gave us dessert! Pineapple almond upside-down cake with rum caramel sauce. Nom nom nom!

dcp, I think that counts as a yay. But I'm still not gonna look at the picture.

I have to admit, my first response to the question is "neener neener I don't have to write proposals anymore!" Which is, sadly, not responsive.

Shrift, that sounds like a fantastic meal. Go you for taking advantage of it!

Me, I went out for beer and mac-n-cheese and green salad at a local brewpub. And it was tasty. And now I'm home and I need to write fic.

Definitely yay, I think. Published photographer! Though, for all I know, you already are. Neat picture, too. Aren't they super poisonous?

I hope they're fixing ita up at the ER.

wow. I made Matt come and read about that meal. happy making.

When I went back to the dentist , it had been 15 years. I paid in money, time and pain. No scolding.

ita I am vibeing so hard for you right now. May tomorrow be, if only the beginning, a decisive start to a new, pain- free life.

shrift, that was some serious food porn.

We won our first game of the playoffs. Emmett was only medium good, which means by his standards, he went 2-4 (one of the outs being a line drive), 2 RBIs, 1 run scored, pitched two shutout innings (but walked the bases loaded) and made excellent plays at catcher and shortstop.

It was a weirdly stressful 9-2 win with one of my coaches ready to yank the head off one of my players, and my usually impeccable closer struggling with control.

I'm not even feeling that ambitious about the playoffs. I just to to finish the season. Next game will tell, as we're playing a very good team. But we also beat them 2 out of 3 this year, so you never know.

shrift, that is seriously yummy sounding. I'm so jealous.

I left work early today and hung out with babies. and then had crepes for dinner then hung out with babies more. And I'm not going to work tomorrow.

All in all a good day.

Hanging with babies! I did that tonight. Well, singular, but Matilda is totally a baby and she was quite semi-crawly tonight.

Oof, I got choked up in a (I presume) Friday Night Lights way while listening to an ESPN story about a football coach at Oregon State University who donated his kidney to the wife of another coach.