Entries from March 2008

PET scan number 5

Date March 30, 2008

About a week ago I had my fifth PET scan — the fourth since finishing Chemo almost a year ago. The results came back completely clean, as expected. I probably have one more year of quarterly scans, then will start doing them less often. Chemo seems like such a distant memory now, that it’s hard [...]

Jury Duty

Date March 23, 2008

I got a Jury Duty notice in the mail recently. In Fairfax County, you have to serve (or at least be available) for at least two days during a two week period. Monday the 17th I showed up at the courthouse at 8:15. The courthouse is brand new — it had just opened the previous [...]

Game review: Ratchet & Clank Future

Date March 3, 2008

Just finished Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction for the Playstation 3. I was really looking forward to the game after it was announced, and received it as a birthday gift from Eric and Sundee. This was the fourth game in the series — the first three were for the Playstation 2. As expected, [...]

Doing real work

Date March 2, 2008

My job was in a bit of a holding pattern my first month as we worked out answers to some questions about how my team was going to fit into the company. That was straightened out a couple weeks ago and now we’ve started doing real work. Two weeks ago (the week of February 18) [...]