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I learned a cool new Excel trick today, which–given the significant amount of time I’ve spent through the years learning Excel’s quirks–doesn’t happen very often nowadays. Turns out you can Fill “down” formalas in 3-D (i.e., between workbooks). Hrmm, it … Continue reading →

Friday night went to the Brinley Brother’s concert at Jammin Java with Eily and other non-Mellman polling colleagues. Eily’s brother was the mercenary drummer for the Brinleys, which is a large part of the reason we went–they were an entertaining … Continue reading →

Was in JKHQ the other day for a meeting, one of quite a few I’ve been in lately, and we were told we couldn’t use the main conference room. The reason: Kerry and Nader were in there. Oh, yeah, guess … Continue reading →

I’ve been to lots of Bar and Bat Mitzvah’s over the years but Saturday night was my first Bnai Mitzvah: a boy and a girl were both celebrating the rite of passage. My boss’s kids were the honorees; and wow, … Continue reading →

Wednesday had dinner with khicks to talk more about what exact incarnation the BL system will be in DNC/Kerry world. khicks brought along a reporter from the Chicago Tribune, which made dinner much more interesting. I got to hear first-hand … Continue reading →

Saturday went on the Billy Goat trail with Miranda, her brother, and her non-feminism friend. NFF had interesting comments about his girlfriend’s rack and “milf’s” that he saw along the trial (among other things). Never have I been in more … Continue reading →

After getting some shopping lessons in previous weeks, I did some shopping on my own on Wednesday…over the Internet. Though, I had good reason to shop in the virtual world: vegetarian (i.e., non-leather) dress shoes are practically impossible to find … Continue reading →

Lots of adventures over the past few days. Thursday I finished up my temporary work at NGP Software, so I could spend Friday with Hillary who flew up from FL for the march. Used my last day of unemployment to … Continue reading →

Happy Spamiversary!

Saturday went to Dos Gringos on Mt Pleasant St for the second time in as many weeks. Katherine invited me there to eat with her Truman scholar friends Julie and Tess. Got into some good political conversation with Tess. Saturday … Continue reading →