A House Divided
My morning routine as of late consists of waking up to my alarm and the radio. After I get up, I kiss my wife and turn on another radio in the living room, and possibly the kitchen. Then I make my breakfast and get ready for work. When I get ready for work, the radio in the bathroom is turned on. All of the radios are tuned to the same station. (The Loop, 97.9 FM, WLUP)
That is, until after Thanksgiving. The radio show host I listen to in the mornings, Jonathon Brandmeier, was let go from The Loop. So now, I don’t really know what to listen to in the morning to help me get going. The bedroom radio still turns on to WLUP, but the radio in the bathroom is now on WGN AM 720 (obviously a leftover from cleaning the bathroom while listening to a Blackhawks game), and the radio in the kitchen is on WBBM AM 780. (a leftover from listening to the Bears while making dinner) Since the radio in the living room doesn’t have AM radio, I just don’t turn it on anymore.
Brandmeier better get back on the airwaves soon or I’m going to go nuts!
File this under “YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!”
As part of my responsibilities, I keep a schedule of internal release information. I started it sometime last year. When I update it the schedule, to let the reader know that they’re reading the latest and greatest, I have the date of the last update in the title. Until someone pointed it out in the last iteration of the file, I didn’t think that 2008 in the title was a big deal. I was a little put-off by how some people nit-pick at the minutae. So, I created a “calendar neutral” version of the schedule.
Imagine my absolute anguish when I get an e-mail from my team lead about someone having a problem with the calendar because it has “2008″ in the title. This was a version of the very same “calendar neutral” schedule that I sent out where the ONLY difference is the title of the file.
So I sent out the same file with the new title.
If people are this up-in-arms about “2008″ appearing in a file name, no wonder I can’t get U-Verse where I live.