Staff Letters: Phil

...This is the face that you hide from...

Damn. I missed a letter. That's pretty unusual for me. Sorry about that, I know how much you all live for my letters of the month. ;)

Anyway, January was an evil month. I worked between 70 and 90 hour weeks for most of it. Since there was a 2/1 deadline on the project in question, things sharply calmed down in the first week of February. But about then is when the class I'm in decided to kick in - or rather the projects started kicking in. Project, homework, project, homework, midterm, project. Yeesh. So that's been taking up quite a bit of time.

Not to fear, however, IPOM has not fallen by the way-side, we've reached the next major milestone in the new section that we keep hinting about. I'm hoping to be able to announce the details and a date very soon... only one more milestone before it enters final testing. I will tell you that it's something I can't wait to finish because I have so many things this will enable me - as a user - to do. It's pretty exciting, and I don't think anything like it exists out there.

Also, I'm really, really proud and excited to say that Lynn (my girlfriend for those of you who don't follow that closely), has been accepted to graduate school - and not any graduate school - the #3 school for Information Library Sciences in the country (Pitt). The #1 school, Illinois, hasn't responded yet, but I have a feeling she'll be accepted there as well. We'll see. Oh - and don't worry, neither of us are moving to anywhere - it's a Distance Education program. Congratulations sweetheart.

On the bike front, I ran into a snag - got a bolt broken in half and stuck in the engine block - but I managed to get it out today cleanly. So I'll get the front tire replaced this week and get new bolts for the exhaust (that's the bolt that broke), and the bike should be ready to go! I owe my good friend KC a debt of gratitude for his long hours working with me in my garage on that thing.

On a very, very random note, I want to say thanks to all of those people from all over the country who still IM me to tell me about their problems, share intimate sexual details about their life with me, and otherwise share intimate things with me even if I haven't seen then in years. I'm serious, I love that stuff, and it's good to keep in touch. And as always, your secrets are safe with me.

BTW, guys, if you want to buy your lady flowers for some occasion, and want something a little different, nice, but don't want to spend your entire paycheck, I recommend Japanese Lilies. They're fragrant enough to fill an entire room, and they smell awesome.

Well, that's about it for this month - see ya'll in April.

Phil

GOOD

I got the fucking bolt out!
Taking Thursdays off to get shit done

BAD

Uptight people
Toilet is in 4 pieces

MOVIES

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