The Wild Life (and randomness)

[hrj]

Today's lunchtime bike ride featured a seal in the bay (I spot them about half a dozen times in the year, typically), a great blue heron standing about 5 feet from the bike path in Acquatic Park, and a very annoying freight train blocking all the level crossings this side of University Ave.

Today, in my function of temporary acting manager of my department (boss on vacation) I got to push back on someone's attempt to fob off their work on "my" people on the basis that since they (the fobber) hadn't managed to do the investigation on deadline, we should do it instead (as well as writing the justification for why the deadline should be extended). I'd claim credit for a successful push-back but the fobbing had already been retracted by the time I swung into action.

As of last night, I had four responses to my latest Craig's List blind date ad, so it looks like leaving things to the last minute for Friday's Swan Lake won't be catastrophic. None of them include nibbles on the Arlo Guthrie or Bryn Terfel events in April, though, so I may have to re-post for those individually. (For those who are relatively new readers of my journal, I have a separate filter for people interested in the more detailed reports on my dating activities -- I lock them out of what is probably excessive courtesy to the other parties being discussed in them. Let me know if you're interested in being in that filter.) After the last of this season's blind date events, I'll have to brainstorm for the next step in The Plan.

Comments

[shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com]

No one has nibbled on Arlo Guthrie? What's wrong with them?!?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Hey, it could be worse. When I was telling my co-workers the list of performances I'd gotten tickets for, the response on Guthrie was, "Who?" I then pointed out that part of The Plan was filtering for the sort of woman who would know who Arlo Guthrie was.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

A seal *and* a great blue heron? I'm so jealous.