Happy Birthday Bailey!

While many things Bailey does have been captured on this blog, and while she often has more adventures than Riley, she rarely allows herself to be photographed during these adventures so I don't have much to share.








Nonetheless, I am one day late in recognizing Bailey's birthday, which was yesterday. Happy Birthday Bailey!

Happy Birthday Riley!

Today I am featuring Riley, and things Riley does, because it is her birthday!

Happy Winter, I Mean Spring!

Spring is here! And so is a good 8 inches of snow, with more on the way. I went out to take a few pictures because I could see this crazy snowdrift from the window and wanted to check it out. It doesn't look nearly as dramatic in the pictures as real life.



It is reassuring to know this snow won't last forever like all the others. So if I skip shoveling the drive, it won't still be there in three weeks!

Seasonal Weather Irony

Spring is Coming

After 18 months of winter, I do believe spring is actually coming. While I do enjoy snow, I also really enjoy spring and am glad it is coming. You have to pay very close attention to all the trees and see them changing. Here is how I know spring is coming:

• There are baseball scores on my dashboard.
• I was able to walk at lunch for the first time since December.
• There are hurdles out on the track at the park.
• The seasonal nursery by my house is getting set up.
• I saw a bug on my windshield. I don't particularly like bugs, but you don't see them in the winter.
  
• It is light in the morning when I wake up, although not for long.
  
• There are almost no piles of snow left.
• I have daffodils peeking up and one crocus.

I probably have more, but that's it for now.

Trying Something Drastic

I've changed my Outlook notifications at work so that it doesn't tell me every time I have a new email. Before, that stupid envelope would pop up and I couldn't resist going to see what it was. Now I don't know I have new email unless I check. And I only think to check when I'm actually between tasks. Which means I don't constantly interrupt myself to go look, forget was I was doing, move on to something else, and have lots of unfinished things at the end of the day.

There are productivity gurus who say you should only check your email twice a day, but that sounds like heresy in the culture I work in. We'll see how long before somebody freaks out that I didn't respond to a message within five minutes.

Guess I Lost Money

Right now Cerner stock is showing as having dropped about $16 million. Hmmmm.