Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Wow, This Local Challenge Thing Might Be HARD
Last night, I rushed to the grocery store right after dinner, for breakfasts, drinks, and snacks for our weekend retreat. I made two stops, the warehouse-grocery-meets-farmers-market, which I think I’ll be shorthanding to Produce Warehouse during this experiment, and a regular mainstream grocery store, the cheaper of my neighborhood chains.
Produce Warehouse:
Bananas, organic, from Mexico. Imported […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Mmm yummy by Liza
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Eating Locally
I’ve decided to join the group of people taking the September Eat Local Challenge.
The idea is that the environmental impact of eating food that has been driven (or flown, or boated, or railed, or multimodally transported) hundreds or thousands of miles from where it originated to my plate is huge. And while it isn’t […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Personal, Mmm yummy by Liza
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Tired Little Code Monkey
I can’t believe I’m still up, but I got on a tear about wanting to get the BlogHer ad network ads up, and then I figured out how to make the little segmenty things in the sidebar look pretty again, AND I figured out how to make my archives not take up 10 inches of […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Personal, Web/Tech by Liza
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Hey, That’s Nice
How’s this for irony? Last week, I got a lovely email from my new BlogHer friend ktjrdn, awarding me a “Nice Matters” blog award!
Then I ignored it for almost a week.
I SWEAR it was nothing personal. I saw it, I got excited, and then it dropped right out of my brain with all the chaos […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Personal by Liza
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Still Workin’
I had my meeting with HR a little while ago, and just wanted to update family & friends that I still have a job!!!
The mood here is still pretty sad — roughly 900 people were “position eliminated” and 4 smaller offices will be completely closed.
8 Comments » - Posted in Personal by Liza
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Rough Day
Back in July, my company\’s new CEO announced that there were going to be big changes coming. Those changes were going to include layoffs, and a narrowing of our focus.
Well, today is (rumored to be) the day. Most people think there will be around 500 people let go. I have no idea whether or not […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Personal by Liza
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
18 Month Stats
We had Noah’s 18 month checkup last week, and I keep forgetting to post his new stats:
Height - Uncertain as he squirmed and fought being measured, but listed as 33.25 inches, or 78th percentile. Considering he was 33 inches at 15 months, and he seems taller, I think we’ll try again when he’s feeling less […]
