House is done, grass is mown
News ·Sunday May 13, 2007 @ 17:02 EDT (link)
Our home repairs were finished last Saturday, May 6, 2007. Our contractor, Jim Cameron (Cameron Construction), with whom we have been very happy, stopped by to touch up some paint and remove some planks his people had left in our back yard. We're still re-purchasing some interior items (e.g. bedroom furniture, which we've ordered), and will not be completely whole until we submit receipts and get our depreciation back from the insurance company, but the house repairs are done. I was demotivated to mow the lawn while our garage was full of carpet and furniture, and had to make up for the hiatus by mowing it twice afterwards, but it's short again now and should stay that way for, oh, two or three days at least.
Office 14 vision meeting was last week; long boring PowerPoint presentation at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue; afterwards I wished I'd stayed at my desk and read the deck, but at least I brought two magazines (latest Spectrum and Communications of the ACM). Despite the lackluster gathering, the new work is interesting and I'm glad to be working on two major Word components and administering a third smaller one which my intern will be working on. Yes: I'll be mentoring a Word SDE intern this summer, should be fun. BH who is now full-time was an intern last summer; we definitely want good interns to become full-time.
I heard that Scott Meyers, author of well-known (in our circle) books Effective C++, Effective STL, and More Effective C++, was giving a presentation for the Northwest C++ Users Group on the 25th, which was being hosted on campus, so server group headed over after eating at Quizno's (visiting ex-Word-dev JB's office on the way out, and, in his absence, drawing liberally on his whiteboard). He was entertaining and interesting, although it's not likely we'll incorporate his abuse of C++ into live code any time soon.
I picked up Honey from the airport on Saturday the 28th.
