I caught myself thinking tonight that I had a lot of time to get stuff done at work today. Then I looked back and realized that I had only 4 hours of meetings. It got me thinking, since when did I find that having ONLY 4 hours of meetings in a day was a light day?? I used to think that having more than an hour or two in one day was amazing.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my new job. It is just very meeting-oriented. I’m averaging at about 5-6 hours a day. Out of curiosity, in your job how many hours are spent in meetings per day?
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it. If you don’t, have a happy Thursday! 
It is very cold, but soon I’ll be heating things up by making my famous deep fried turkey. I had to buy new oi, which totaled $50. That’s an expensive turkey dinner, but very delicious.
You know, I really don’t have very much going on right now, so I haven’t had much to write on here. The only real news recently is that I am planning my sabbatical from work. Every 5 years we get to take almost a month off in one big chunk (with pay). So I’ve been making some plans around Hawaii followed by a cruise to the Carri bean. I’m quite excited, although because of the way the timing worked out, it’s going to be a while before it happens.
Also, I finally got off my butt and posted a video of some of the Halloween decorations at my house this year. It was quite cool! Check it out on my Video page.
I installed a new system on my website that tells me lost of information about the people visiting my web site. Don’t worry, I haven’t figured out how to have it give me your social security numbers…yet. But I have found some odd items.
- One of the weirdest is in the “referring site” report. This basically tells me the site you were on when you clicked a link to take yourself to my site. Guess what one of the referring sites was? http://asp-cyber.law.harvard.edu/. Why does a page from Harvard Law link to Shawnland? I’ll never know because I can’t browse that site.
- Also another odd thing I found was one of the search terms that got someone to my site was the phrase “shawn fried”. I think it can only mean two things:
- That’s a new way to cook chicken
- My boss is trying to send me a message, but he had a typo.
(Let’s hope it’s number 1)
If you follow my Twitter, you may have read that I’ve been scanning old family slides. I came across this one, and I have decided that it is probably the most adorable picture of me that ever was and certainly ever will be.
