Sad but true!

This is a cute parody a friend just emailed me. It’s so spot on it’s pathetic. Of course, you could substitute many of the “my boss” signs with “my client,” but you get the idea.

Btw, 2 of my 6 projects (well, one project with 6 phases) are in “red” due to my client’s inability to sign [...]

Color crisis: how does blue become brown??

Lately I have been diving into color theory and its related topics. I first became interested in color as a grad student in Psychology while at OSU as a result of a physiological psych class I took. One of the topics it covered was the low-level functions of the fovea (the “cone” cells in our retina). [...]

The Internet’s Best Financial Calculators

It’s true! I have been using these calculatorsat Dinkytown.net (for free mind you) for at least 3 years now, and I have to say they are the best I’ve found out there. They keep updating the content to reflect changing tax laws, and it seems like new and better features are added on a regular [...]

Succumbing to the inevitable, part 2

Instant replay in baseball: what is the world coming to? According to the AP, it’s going to start in 2 days. Now I admit I am a throwback. Hell, I even still harbor ill will towards the AL’s designated hitter rule, and that’s been around since I was a mere 6 years old.  I suppose it [...]

Really now?

As seen on the web (emphasis mine):
Recent surveys by the consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide indicate that while nearly half of US employers believe stress from long working hours and demands to produce more with less is influencing business performance, only 5 percent say they’ve taken strong action to remedy the situation.
And they wonder why…
…many people’s [...]

Succumbing to the inevitable

Found this on the web (edited only slightly to fix spelling and grammar):
How to you know you are becoming overwhelmed with disappointment? The easiest way to determine if you are starting to have a difficult time dealing with feelings of disappointment is when you start exhibiting the same behaviors that you are concerned about. These can [...]

A new workplace low

Here’s about the stupidest thing I have heard, well, today. Evidently I am no longer allowed to write my weekly progress and near-term intentions in my company’s project tracking solution. Management has indicated that the field has been re-purposed to support a “special executive” report. WTF is that?

This is just the latest insult (in a long [...]

Golf score tracking sheet

After playing around with the Golf Track 1.3 for Excel I wrote about in an earlier post, I decided to build a little stat tracker for myself and my wife to use when we’re playing. It’s nothing much, just a Word doc, but using it really helped me focus on keeping my FIR and GIR [...]

Portland area real estate – not as bad as Vegas!

Or Sacramento for that matter. And on the other side of the coin is…Yakima!
What I’m trying to say is that, based on the latest real estate numbers from Realtor.org, the winners for price appreciation in the last quarter reported are:

Yakima, WA @ 8.9%
Binghamton, NY @ 8.7%
Amarillo, TX @ 7.2%

And the losers are:

Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville, CA @ -35.6%
Cape Coral-Fort [...]

Integration irritation

Gotta admit it – the more things change, the more they stay the same. So here I am, trying to hook my Twitter posts in with Plaxo Pulse, and I keep getting this extremely unhelpful dialog box telling me I don’t exist:

 
So at first I figure, maybe it’s a batch process that hasn’t updated, or [...]