Author: Eileen OShea
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A fun weekend in which we run the Bay to Breakers fully clothed and make a big decision
This past Sunday was the Bay to Breakers (B2B for short), which for those of you who don’t live in California and/or live in a cave, is a 12K road race held annually in San Francisco. The name comes from the course which starts near the Embarcadero (the Bay), runs through Golden Gate Park and…
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Junk email of the week
Received this morning: Dear webmail User, We are undertaking some maintenance to verifying our subscribers email account but you need extensive maintenance to improve your webmail Service and this is what we want to do for your account. We are deleting all unused E-mail account, to confirm that your account is currently in use and…
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Catching up & catching my breath
It’s been an action-packed month for Chuck and me, and I feel like we haven’t had a chance to just chill in weeks (probably because we haven’t). Work has kept us super busy – converting a big website to Drupal is no casual undertaking – and it’s also grant time when the annual gathering of…
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A final farewell, with much love
My aunt died this morning. She was 85. She was also the baby of her family and the last surviving sibling of my mother. It’s funny to talk about the baby of a family being 85. We called her Auntie A (her older sister was Auntie B), a tradition started by my oldest sister Mary…
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Tripping down memory lane
I have been threatening to do this for a while, but have finally gotten around to it, so prepare yourselves for a bit of a tale. Many years ago – shockingly, it’s been 30 years! (where does the time go?!) – I treated myself to a trip to Europe as my college graduation present. I…
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Lame excuses, in lovely list format
Okay, this is a whiny post about why I haven’t been posting to the blog more often. So let’s get right to it: I’ve been working A LOT Like I said, I’ve been working A LOT Just to clarify, working a lot leaves me with very little free time Chuck has also been working a…
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