The month begins with two more days of telecommuting after last week’s trip to Redmond followed by today’s day off in commemoration of Independence Day: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 215 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 199 None (did not compete) 154 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 13 Have a great (long, for us) weekend! -wp

After last week in Redmond, this week begins and the month ends with a return to telecommuting: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 213 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 199 None (did not compete) 153 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 13 If it’s quarter-end, it’s bonus chart time.. Commuting Options Selected Second Quarter, 2009 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 49 Drove 7 None (did not compete)

I probably shouldn’t have gone, but I did end up flying to Redmond and driving to work all week: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 211 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 199 None (did not compete) 153 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 13 We are slowly mending.. Have a great weekend! -wp

Yes, it’s true.. when this post goes live, it will have been exactly four years (adjusted for a time zone differential.. how apropos) since this humble corner of the InterWebs was available for instantiation in your browser of choice. As I’ve done each year since , I celebrate this occasion by sincerely thanking you for your visits, as well as your questions and comments. What’s especially gratifying of late is the amount of dialog transpiring over posts that are two or three years old. I had hoped

Yet another week telecommuting from home, while running back and forth to protect Gale from the same quacks who were messing with me last month: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 211 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 194 None (did not compete) 153 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 If that driving I’ve been discussing is going to happen, it’s going to happen next week, along with a couple of airline segments.

Today would’ve been my mother’s 82nd birthday if we hadn’t lost her to emphysema on 4 November 2004.  I wish I could call her today, but I can’t. I know Father’s Day is coming up this weekend.  Dads are important, but just the same, if you’ve got the opportunity, throw some love and attention towards your mother as well. If my experience is any guide, a day will come where you’ll regard as a missed opportunity every day you didn’t. Happy birthday, Mom.  I love you and miss you very

June is definitely milestone season in this neck of the woods. Not only is today the third anniversary of my start with the ITOE Technology Architects group (the artists formerly known as the SQL CoE), but this past Sunday marked my tenth(!) anniversary as a full-time employee at Microsoft.  Throw in the end of school last week, the blog’s anniversary on the 22nd, and my wedding anniversary in the middle of July, and there is much to commemorate and celebrate at this time of year. Despite recent

Another grand week spent telecommuting from home: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 206 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 194 None (did not compete) 153 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 A quick look at the calendar reveals that it’s been exactly three years since this experiment started. Seems like a good opportunity to run some statistics, doesn’t it? Since I started in the CoE three years ago today, there

This week was spent catching up with work while telecommuting from home: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 201 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 194 None (did not compete) 153 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Hope you have a great weekend! -wp

Earlier this evening, thanks to a helpful comment from eXcalibur, I was able to resolve the funky display issues which have plagued Firefox-based visitors since I started playing with CSS overrides in early May.  Thanks, eXcalibur, for the sage advice. I spent the first half of May working pretty hard on a couple of projects (SQL RAP 2.5, and an internal application called SIPA) before I suffered a relapse of my digestive maladies mid-month.  A couple of short hospitalizations later, I’ve

This two week period was spent recovering from my latest bout of gastrointestinal distress: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 196 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 194 None (did not compete) 153 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Here’s the bonus chart for May, the most diverse month we’ve had in awhile: Commuting Options Selected May, 2009 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 9 Drove 2 None

This was a full week of telecommuting in the woods: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 196 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 194 None (did not compete) 143 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Have a great weekend! -wp

The week included my first foray into work-related driving in over a month, as I drove to Orlando on Tuesday and Wednesday to shadow a SQLRAP delivery. The remainder of the week was spent here in the woods: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 191 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 194 None (did not compete) 143 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Looks as though Telecommuted will move past Drove next week.. Have

The weeks ends and a new month begins with one more day of telecommuting from sunny Florida: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 188 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did not compete) 143 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Alas, if current plans hold, May will not be 100% green. More details next week. Have a great weekend! -wp

The month ends with more telecommuting from sunny Florida: Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 187 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did not compete) 143 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Here’s your month-end bonus chart : Commuting Options Selected April, 2009 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 23 The weekend is almost here! Good luck to Kyle and the rest of the South Sumter Raiders

More telecommuting from sunny Florida (although today was a bit discombobulated due to Gale’s sinus surgery) : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 183 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did not compete) 143 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Mend well, Gale! And along with everybody else, have a great weekend! -wp

Another full week of telecommuting from beautiful central Florida : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 178 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did not compete) 143 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Have a great weekend! -wp

A full week of telecommuting as my health continues to improve : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 173 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did not compete) 143 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Have a great weekend! -wp

The new month and quarter begin as the old ones ended : with a continued return to productivity from home after last week’s excitement : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 167 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did not compete) 143 Other Transportation Employed Airline Segments Flown 11 Have a great weekend! -wp

I meant to.  I really did. But I got sick last week , and my energy level has been slow enough to come back that my focus was entirely elsewhere until about six last night. I panicked.  I gave fleeting consideration to throwing something hasty together, but everything I came up with struck me as lame, abusive to my audience, or (frequently) both.  The fact that most of it also wasn’t funny was also a factor in my silence. I slept soundly, which is always nice after such a difficult