Cinco de Mayo! Today was a huge day for Andy and I. When we first came to Pittsburgh in March our schedule for getting the Waste Watcher project up and running and “live” was May 1st. That day was insanely ambitious and it was not realistic at all for the project to move that quickly. …
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March 22, 2000: Working in Shadyside
Today is our first real day of doing work in Pittsburgh. We don’t have much time to “settle into a groove”. We are going from “zero to one hundred” practically overnight. Today we got set up with an office in the bowels of UPMC Shadyside from which we will be working for the next several …
March 21, 2000: Settling in to Shadyside
This morning Andy and my job is to move into the Amberson Apartments on the Carnegie-Mellon campus in Shadyside, Pennsylvania. My parents came down to Pittsburgh to help us with the move-in process. We got a two bedroom, one bath apartment on the seventh floor (seventh floor facing the circle and ninth facing Amberson) of …
March 20, 2000: Waste Watcher Goes to Pittsburgh
Today is the big day. One month ago today Andy and I packed up and left Rochester to come to Ithaca to begin “phase one” of our Waste Watcher project adventure. Today begins the second phase. The 1992 Buick Regal GS was loaded to the hilt with sleeping bags, blankets, two Compaq Proliant 800 Servers, …
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February 21, 2000: Living in Ithaca
Today is my first full day of living in Ithaca, New York for the first time. I have always loved Ithaca ever since Nate and I first came here on a church camping trip back around 1989. We had camped at a boy scout camp on the west side of Cayuga Lake with our youth …