Re: What's on your TC bookshelf?

["Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>]

I may not be married to one (if I could be), but then, I *am* the
"white-sock wearing, jeans-only [mostly; today it's hot and I'm in shorts]
wearing ... who can actually do logic puzzles. I make fun of "technical
writers" too--at least the ones who claim to be (hence the quotes) or try to
be (think marketing or sales people who think this profession isn't
difficult compared to theirs) whose work I've often had to clean up.

But then, let's see....
Monday: Long day, long commute home, I'm too damn tired to do laundry, OK,
SportsCenter and a freezer-to-microwave dinner it is.
Tuesday: Another long day--and the 8:30 meeting never happened (a 6:30 alarm
for that one), the gym by 8:30, and an even later freezer-to-microwave
dinner.
Wednesday: Not so long day, but frustrating because RoboHTML is doing funny
things and the HATT gurus are non-responsive, off at 5 for an extra-long and
frazzed commute, and I'm late for my class anyway, done after 9, home to
catch the last half hour of West Wing, another freezer-to-microwave dinner,
plus I now *need* to do laundry because I didn't do it Monday. Updated my
resume too.
Thursday (today): Wake up to memories of 2 years ago (a friend and sometimes
date called me at 7am and said simply "turn on the TV," then later I found
that someone I played football and basketball with, Mark Bingham, had been
on flight 93), on the commute I'm thinking if I want to go to a memorial
this Saturday for another guy who I played basketball with who recently
died, I'm facing a particularly thorny part of the docs I'm revising (for a
part of hte app that's stil lnot entirely working), gotta leave by 7 to make
my 8:45 basketball game, then home.
Friday (tomorrow): no plans for what looks to be a warm Friday night. Maybe
I'll stay in and watch my Two Towers DVD again.
Saturday: If I don't go to that memorial service, then I hope my Huskies are
on TV (that's football).
Sunday: NFL week 2 on TV, then basketball. (Maybe I should shop too--for
groceries for hte coming week.

How's that for mundane? (Not to mention about as far from stereotype as you
can get--except for the MTF transsexual construction worker who I play
basketball with.)

Chuck Martin


"Michele Davis" <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com> wrote in message
news:212596 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
> Chuck dear,
>
> you are not married to a white-sock wearing, jeans-only wearing software
> developer who can actually do logic puzzles and makes fun of tech
> writers (unless they cook his dinner and have a PhD). the fab five is a
> welcome relief to the mundane-ness of straight-ness. lol! in addition it
> is a relief from women doing all the design of their straight husband's
> clothes, the furniture for the home and arguably the cool dinners that
> we create. perhaps i'm an overachiever, but i'd take a gay sw developer
> any day. there is a hysterical MPG that my son showed me called "lady
> sitters." it is gay men shopping and cooking with women while their
> straight husbands went and watched football <ugh, the only women i know
> that like football are my SILs and my step-mom).
>
> i stand to be corrected.

>
> Chuck Martin wrote:
>
> >"Michele Davis" <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com> wrote in message
> >
> >P.S. I saw the "Fab Five" do their Jay Leno makeover; their stereotypical
> >behavior--and roles--belie our contributions in all areas of society, in
all
> >walks of life, and in all industries.
> ></political_and_sociological_soapbox>
> >