We are constantly thinking of the great war... which saved the Union... but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed before -- a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union. |
Cold MountainMonday, August 31, 1998
The project I'm helping with right now at work is rather an awkward size. There are enough parts to it, and it's complex enough, that updating certain files when I add another one will be tedious. But the project isn't so big that automating this updating process is strictly necessary. I miss my buddy Chris the content developer from the gardening CD-ROM a few years ago. He loved that kind of tweaking, and would have created a little VB form for me, just like that! (snaps fingers) But we will get this problem figured out and rationalized; that's one of the longer-term goals of me helping on this project! We had two guys from another product demoing at our group program management meeting today. I love our boss when he is being difficult! He has a real gift for asking the awkward questions. I felt for these folks, but I'm philosophically opposed to their product, and the questions he asked got to some of the deep-rooted problems there. The other item of note from work: I use the same type of chair at home and the office, a swivel-based knee chair. I own my office chair, which isn't required, but the knee chair is so much better for my back! So the chair is rather critical for me. But now it is broken! The knee part has separated from the framework in such a way that I can't see how to attach it again. I just have it balanced on the pipes there. The chair is still usable, but not as stable or secure. Rats! I think I'll need to buy a new one.
Tonight was the book club meeting for Cold Mountain, a novel set in the Civil War. (Rats! I didn't finish it!) We ate at an Indian restaurant at Crossroads Mall. My friend Joan wasn't there to keep us on task and on topic, so conversation did tend to stray off of the book, but I did my best to pull us back. I did call attention to the chapter titles, which were phrases from the text. They often had an ironic meaning, when read in the context of the chapter itself. I do something similar, not in the titles of these entries, but in the teaser phrases that I put each day on my home page. I usually try and resist writing a special phrase here just to use there, though.
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