Originally I chose to name my journal turing::Jeff using the perl syntax to be clever. Michele suggested that I use Leased Territories (a reference from Neil Stephenson’s The Diamond Age). However, I don’t know if the name is sticking with me. At first I thought Villa-Straylight (reference from William Gibson’s Neuromancer) but Michele thought that was ‘gay’.
Yesterday at work we had our first team meeting for the newly re-organized project. It looks like my work assignment won’t change much but things will get really busy in the next week or two, and stay that way for the rest of the year. Finally, I hope I’ll be able to do some hard-core software development instead of filling out reams of silly test-forms for a one-character change to a config file.
My father is in town for a couple of days on business. We went to Einstein’s in midtown for dinner last night and as such I had to skip going to the gym. We’re going to see about dinner tonight before he has to catch his flight back to Atlanta.
I went to Michele’s apartment last night to test the allergies. The previous two times I’ve visited her, my nose would get clogged up and start running constantly while I as in the apartment. So Michele called the allergy center and they suggested spraying for dust mites. She cleaned the whole place Sunday and last night while I did get a bit stuffy, it was nothing like the previous two times.
Michele declared that she has been looking at diamonds over at Blue Nile, and she wanted me to take a look. She was all excited about the super flawless cuts and super clear colors. Now I want to do a little test. Below we have three pictures of diamonds of differing color, taken from Blue Nile. I can’t see any difference between the three:
Mystery Diamond #1:
Mystery Diamond #2:
Mystery Diamond #3:
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