Around 7:30 pm, PDT on Friday night (Aug. 5, 2011), we simultaneously lost our Internet connection, long-distance phone, and cell phone service. Since these are provided by different companies, it surprising. We turned on the radio and tried some of the local radio station. They mentioned in passing that Internet was down as far as [...]
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Disconnected
Posted in current events, local, Personal, technology on 6 August, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Kicking off a new decade
Posted in Personal, site, work, tagged ceqa, economy, engineering, environment, impacts, local, natural resources, nepa, water quality, work on 1 January, 2011 | 1 Comment »
2010 was a difficult year for most people I know, and for me personally. I was sick, our car was stolen right out of our driveway, I lost a beloved cat to illness, I had unexpected (and unentertaining) expenses, work has been very slow, etc. I stopped writing on my blog early in the year, [...]
Cooking
Posted in family, local, Personal, tagged california, food, humboldt, local, Personal, society on 5 January, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My husband gave me a local cookbook for Christmas, “Locally Delicious”, which was just published about a month ago. I’ve been talking about cooking more often (he does most of the cooking)and we’re both partisans of the idea of eating locally grown or produced food, in season. I was raised that way — my mom [...]
I knew there was a reason I’m here
Posted in current events, environment, Personal, tagged california, canada, Personal, weather on 9 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Montreal, where I come from, looks like this today: The office courtyard here looks like this: The temperature here is about 7 C (45 F), while it’s -2 C in Montreal (28 F).
Christmas and the holidays
Posted in Personal, society, tagged holidays, peace, Personal, religion on 6 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t believe that it’s Jesus’ birthday, but I do like Christmas nonetheless. I don’t believe that a baby was born to a virgin travelling to Bethlehem. Moreover, even if Matthew (or more likely a later compiler and translator of Matthew’s work) had not added this bit to tie Jesus to messianic traditions but instead [...]
Comfort food
Posted in local, Personal, tagged food, humboldt, local on 16 November, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I really love Cafe Nooner in Eureka. I think of all the comfort food available for puchase in town, theirs may be the comfortingest! I stopped there yesterday — it has become a Sunday tradition for my husband and I — and had their cream of porcini mushroom (mmm, with green onions and garlic) and [...]
Leaves on the sidewalk
Posted in local, Personal, tagged humboldt, local, Personal, photography on 26 October, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A picture I took yesterday afternoon in Eureka. I loved the contrast between warm and cold colours.
Career: Project management
Posted in employment, Personal, work, workplace, tagged Career, excellence, management, Personal, planning, work, workplace on 23 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As in many other technical disciplines, it’s a frequent career path for engineers — almost required — to move from on from pure technical work (design, analysis, number-crunching, etc.) onto project management. A long time ago as an undergrad in civil engineering, my course concentration was in construction project management. I learned the crunchy part, [...]
Career: What I changed
Posted in employment, Personal, work, workplace, tagged Career, Personal, planning, work, workplace on 22 October, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts this week, I’ve been reflecting on career matters, including what I’ve changed in the last year and a half. First, I read up on job search and career management, and the difference between the two (this is the theme of the week). I thought a lot about what I [...]
Career: Opportunity and stumbling blocks
Posted in employment, Personal, work, workplace, tagged Career, Personal, planning, work, workplace on 21 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not one of those people that life doesn’t throw anything at you which you can’t handle, or that everything happens for a reason. I think that’s the kind of thing we say to other people to make them and ourselves feel better, but in reality things just happen without predetermination. History unfolds as we [...]
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