Today started awfully early — 2am, roughly, when the phone rang. I knew immediately that it was a crank caller, but I wasn’t awake enough to realize that I knew it, and kept talking to the guy for a minute or two until the glucose level in my brain reached a high enough level for me to figure out that the right response was to hang up the phone. I think I hung it up while I was in the middle of saying something, but I don’t really remember.
Of course, after waking up enough to deal with the caller, it took me a while to fall back to sleep, but I eventually did, and the alarm came as a shock, as usual. I much prefer days when I can wake up on my own schedule, but those are few and far between.
Spring Cleaning
I’m running out of room in my home office, so I’ve been going through some of the piles of paper, trying to get rid of stuff which I don’t need. This morning, I unearthed the score report from the test I took to become an OS/2 Certified Engineer — I took advantage of the opportunity to take the test for free at a Comdex many years ago, or I probably never would have bothered. As it was, I’ve never used the certification (I’m not sure I’ve ever mentioned it to anyone until writing this entry, in fact), so I guess I can probably get rid of the score report, even though it is prominently stamped “Save this report!”. Wonder where my certificate is….
Referrals
On Tuesday, I mentioned Artabunga as one of the more interesting booths I saw at the ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace Exhibition.
Today, I got a nice note from Helen Casserly at Artabunga thanking me for the mention and for the traffic I’d sent her way — glad to be of service, Helen!
But then I was wondering why I had so much traffic lately, and discovered that my tale of my day at ACM1 had been
Scobelized. Thanks, Robert!