Been Post'd, Part Deux (plot twist!)

For the second time in two weeks, I've been in the Washington Post. This time, thankfully, I wasn't directly quoted. In fact, I wasn't even in the main article.

Background: The Post has been doing a year-long investigation of all emails/communications of the Board of Supervisors in Loudoun County, VA. Obviously, this was a difficult task, as my office alone had over 22,000 emails (something like that). As a result, they wrote this article.

While thankfully (and not surprisingly) my boss had done nothing improper in her capacity, she had fallen out of favor with some of her colleagues. The email found at this link will show you how much they dislike(d) her (start at the bottom of the email). And that's where I come in.

As one of my friends put it: "It was weird to read an article online and click a link about a friend's boss, only to have another friend's name mentioned in that email."

It is kinda surreal, actually, but all in a day's work.

Finally SNOW!!

It's January, and Oklahoma has already had two blizzards, and we are finally getting our first snow.

Just a couple inches, mind you, but enough to get excited about.

Mia doesn't quite know what to think...

Buns of Steel

You wouldn't expect something as integral to our daily lives as a toilet-seat to be made of cheap material. Nonetheless, I managed to break ours yesterday. Just split. Looks like it's cheap particle board.

Or, maybe it's those Godiva chocolates I found on my boss's desk that I keep eating....

I've been Post'd

I get my first quote in the Washington Post, and what do you know, but it sounds like I'm a 3rd grade student who doesn't know proper grammar.

"Where you have more interchanges, things work more quickly and there are going to be less accidents," Davis said. "It's pretty obvious that the more you keep traffic flowing, the less crashes there'll be."

Sounds pretty nice, except for the "less accidents" and "less crashes." I don't think I actually said that, probably her own words of my words....bummer.

Link.

Christmas Update

So, I've been a little busy watching great football games, but I finally made time to put up some pictures from our Christmas trip. We actually ended up taking more video than photos, but I left our video camera AC adapter in Savannah, so I'll wait for that to arrive before creating some short films for viewing.

For now - check out here to view our photos!!

Three's a crowd

From a friend / work colleague who just had a third child (names removed to protect the unaware):

"We can confirm (with the third child just being born), that zone is much harder than man-to-man. We're seriously outnumbered."

I just had to laugh....