marsh-ed?
April 17th, 2007 Stephen Lau
i’ve always wondered where the origin of the word swamped came from (as in “i’m so swamped with work”). why not marshed? i notice swamped does share some commonality with bogged, as in “i’m bogged down”.
but anyway, i digress.
i’m swamped, bogged, marshed, whatever…
the SCM Migration Project is predictably going slower than we planned. on the plus side, i’m seeing lots of interest from other engineers - but we haven’t been getting the internal resources we’d hoped for, so for now it’s primarily me, richlowe, and kupfer plowing ahead. we’ve picked up a couple guys from ERI that should help.
of course, the other major thing on my plate at the moment is my very-very-upcoming wedding (18 days!!!), so my days are oft filled with wedding errands and such.
so of course, with all this stuff going on in our lives… wendy and i thought it would be best to …. remodel our kitchen. a combination of a decent tax refund, and the realisation that the one-month estimate to remodel our kitchen (during which our house would be a disaster) coincided nicely with the one month of time we would be taking for our honeymoon and vacation. so now we’re rushing about trying to secure contractors, and get permits in the two weeks before we leave.
i feel like our lives our pure chaos right now. on the one hand, it’s hectic, crazy, and i’m getting crappy anxiety-ridden nights of sleep. but on the other hand, i’m really starting to appreciate the small quiet moments… like the 8 minutes i took after the electrician left today during which i just laid out on the sofa/futon with one beagle slumped across my feet and the other splayed out next to me resting her head on my chest. within 45 seconds, both were snoring. those 7 minutes and 15 seconds of blissful peace (i won’t say quiet, since they were filled with the snores of two hound dogs) and doing nothing but vegging felt great.
[tags: Beagles, Musings, Sun, Vacation, Wedding]
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mexican | April 18th, 2007 at 05:53
Man that’s whacked shit about marshed / swamped / bogged … i never thought of that
Hahahaha !
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Nathan Chan | April 20th, 2007 at 00:42
Hey Steve,
Long time no see/talk. Just wanted to congratulate you on your upcoming nuptials. It’s a very exciting time and I hope to meet your bride-to-be some day. I read your blog every now and then and I find we have very similar “life paths”..haha…dog, home purchase, marriage, honeymoon, kitchen remodel….
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