http://picklesanddimes.com A blog featuring a disturbing amount of bacon references. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:34:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Work today is a scene from a Scooby-Doo episode, one where I’m trying to track people down to extract information from them for last-minute projects dumped on me, and succeeding only in going to their office to find them missing, and having them stop by my desk just as I’ve ... http://picklesanddimes.com/2010/03/09/interrup/ Next week I have to give a presentation on social media. About which, according to my employer, I am an expert, which is great, because now all my time spent dinking around online can be written off as “research.” This presentation is for an internal audience only, which calmed my nerves ... http://picklesanddimes.com/2010/03/05/speaking-engagement/ Ah, TV dinners. I never really liked TV dinners, mainly because as a kid I didn’t understand how the meat, vegetable AND dessert all cooked together at the same temperature. Ick. Especially if the dessert was pudding – who likes cooked pudding? Seriously, who? And don’t even get me started on ... http://picklesanddimes.com/2010/03/03/masthead-41-%e2%80%93-tv-dinner/ Last night, Jason came downstairs and walked over to Sunny, who was burritoed in the blankets slung over the back of the loveseat. He petted her and gave her a scritch behind her ears. Then he came over to where Shorty was curled into a doughnut on my lap, leaned ... http://picklesanddimes.com/2010/03/02/petting-zoo/ It’s been a very long, very stressful, very dumb work week for both of us (with no end in sight), to the point that Jason & I are determined to make it to the weekend no matter what. All week I’ve been repeating “happy happy happy” to myself like a ... http://picklesanddimes.com/2010/02/26/happy/