Friday, September 26, 2008
Maybe a rainout wouldn't have been so bad...
Yankees up 12-3 middle of 4th. Here's a pic of one of the Sox' many pitching changes
"Largest Bank Failure in US History"
Alternate title, copied from the story on the WaMu internal web site:
"JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual Join Together"
The Feds stepped in and seized the assets of my employer, WaMu on Wednesday and auctioned them off to the highest bidder. JP Morgan Chase bought the assets (~$300 billion in deposits and the bank branch network) plus around $31Billion in bad debt for the bargain price of 1.9Billion. So I work for JP Morgan Chase now, I think I do anyway. Good article here from NY Times that summarizes the whole mess.
I was on a plane on my way to NH for Sox-Yankee game tonight when this all went down. My phone was abuzz with emails, text messages and voicemails of two types: those telling me what had happened (my boss & another coworker) and the "you still have a job?" "you ok?" type from everyone else.
As I said, I still have a job for now, at least. All I've been told is that it's business as usual for the time being so I figure I'm probably ok thru the end of the year at least. who knows.
What I'm more concerned with today is the CRAP weather around here & whether the game will actually be played tonight. My brother Gary & I flew in last night (dad knew I was coming but Gary was a surprise) just for the game tonight and are both leaving tomorrow, game or no. We already checked & changing flights isn't going to work for either of us, so we're hoping that the steady rain we're seeing right now will go away long enough for us to watch Dice-K put away the Yankees tonight.
I'll post more about work when I get more info - thanks for all the calls & messages.
GO SOX!
"JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual Join Together"
The Feds stepped in and seized the assets of my employer, WaMu on Wednesday and auctioned them off to the highest bidder. JP Morgan Chase bought the assets (~$300 billion in deposits and the bank branch network) plus around $31Billion in bad debt for the bargain price of 1.9Billion. So I work for JP Morgan Chase now, I think I do anyway. Good article here from NY Times that summarizes the whole mess.
I was on a plane on my way to NH for Sox-Yankee game tonight when this all went down. My phone was abuzz with emails, text messages and voicemails of two types: those telling me what had happened (my boss & another coworker) and the "you still have a job?" "you ok?" type from everyone else.
As I said, I still have a job for now, at least. All I've been told is that it's business as usual for the time being so I figure I'm probably ok thru the end of the year at least. who knows.
What I'm more concerned with today is the CRAP weather around here & whether the game will actually be played tonight. My brother Gary & I flew in last night (dad knew I was coming but Gary was a surprise) just for the game tonight and are both leaving tomorrow, game or no. We already checked & changing flights isn't going to work for either of us, so we're hoping that the steady rain we're seeing right now will go away long enough for us to watch Dice-K put away the Yankees tonight.
I'll post more about work when I get more info - thanks for all the calls & messages.
GO SOX!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Iris is 10 months old today!
Iris still isn't crawling but she loves to walk while you hold her hands.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Playtime for Iris
Iris was playing with this while we were waiting for our car to have its oil changed at Burien Nissan and she pulled herself up to a standing position using just the cube to balance herself. That was the first time she ever pulled herself all the way up by herself--every other time we've held her hands & helped her a little.
A couple seconds after this was taken she started rocking away from it and gave the wire a good twist on her way to the floor. She was quite surprised that it didn't hold her up when she started to go down
photo posted from my iPhone
A couple seconds after this was taken she started rocking away from it and gave the wire a good twist on her way to the floor. She was quite surprised that it didn't hold her up when she started to go down
photo posted from my iPhone
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Iris likes meat!
where Pau pau and Sheila live.
Iris in NYC
Museum of Art this afternoon.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Monday, September 08, 2008
We had good seats yesterday
We decided to copy Kris & Ben and trade in the tix for our last two games and go see the Ms beat the Yankees yesterday, since it was so nice out. Then we got upgraded to these front row seats when ex-amzn'er Guy Palumbo & his family had to leave early--section 117 row 1 for the last couple innings. We were along 3rd baseline not far from the foul pole in row 29 for the rest of the game.
In other news, this is really bad. Not a good day to be a Pats fan. Monday afternoon update: It's official. Surgery required & he's out for the season.
I think only Kerry Killinger (the big boss at WaMu, where I work) had a worse day than Brady did.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Not Budka
We're told that this is not our friend Ben Budka snagging a foul ball at tonight's Mariners-Yankee game, a near no-hitter by the Mariners' Brandon Morrow in his first major league start. Ms won 3-1.
Seems pretty hard to believe it's not him since:
1) looks a lot like him
2) he & Kris were sitting "second row somewhere between 1st base and Ichiro" according to an email Kris sent me today
I smell a cover-up. The only question is: Why?
Seems pretty hard to believe it's not him since:
1) looks a lot like him
2) he & Kris were sitting "second row somewhere between 1st base and Ichiro" according to an email Kris sent me today
I smell a cover-up. The only question is: Why?
Thursday, September 04, 2008
IPod Project Update: Finishing up
I am now on song 16900 of 16902 (!). It's "2000 Light Years From Home" by the Stones, with only "2000 Miles" by Pretenders and "2112" by Rush left, (the ipod sorts alphabetically by putting numbers at the end)
yet I'm almost sad about it. what should I do next? Start over? I do have LOTS of stuff on there that I didn't have when I started this project in January '06 with my long gone 30gig ipod.
I'll have to think about that
oops - Stones song is done. Pretenders now--only one more to go!
UPDATE: Friday morning: I created a playlist of all the songs that have never been played since I got the 80g ipod and it's 7890 tracks. Which is a lot. It's mainly songs that come alphabetically prior to wherever I happened to be on my A-Z playlist, plus all tracks that come before I -- that's what I was up to on the old one when it died 2 yrs ago.
So you won't hear me mention it again for a while--this is at least a years worth, if I average 20 songs a day. And I bet no one's interested anyway so I'll shut up about it now
yet I'm almost sad about it. what should I do next? Start over? I do have LOTS of stuff on there that I didn't have when I started this project in January '06 with my long gone 30gig ipod.
I'll have to think about that
oops - Stones song is done. Pretenders now--only one more to go!
UPDATE: Friday morning: I created a playlist of all the songs that have never been played since I got the 80g ipod and it's 7890 tracks. Which is a lot. It's mainly songs that come alphabetically prior to wherever I happened to be on my A-Z playlist, plus all tracks that come before I -- that's what I was up to on the old one when it died 2 yrs ago.
So you won't hear me mention it again for a while--this is at least a years worth, if I average 20 songs a day. And I bet no one's interested anyway so I'll shut up about it now
Sleepy girl
time for lunch with daddy. Mommy had to go back to work already.
UPDATE: baby girl woke up at 12:55, around 10 minutes after this photo was taken. Here's a recap of her very busy next 30 mins
wake up
wet diaper changed
crusty nose de-crusted
repeatedly try to steal lucy's binky while dad mixes up lunch
eat jar of turkey dinner & 3 scoops of rice cereal
squirt saline up nose
nose syphoned out
sit down on floor
poop
new poop-free diaper installed
lay back down on floor
daddy goes back to work
Monday, September 01, 2008
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