Musings of Lanna Lee Maheux

Please be gentle:

It has come to my attention that the Human Lanna has posted pictures of me on the internet.

This one is okay:

But this one makes my butt look big.



I think we need to have a little discussion.

My friend Margo tagged me on Facebook with the request:

Go to google. Type in your name and the words "will be," all in quotes, as in "lanna will be." Write down the first ten you find.

This is where it gets a bit weird. In Thailand "Lanna (English One Million Rice Fields, Thai: ล้านนา) was a kingdom in the north... around the city of Chiang Mai." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanna) Apparently Lanna is pretty popular in Thai culture.

Here are the first 10 unique entries:

1. activities operated by Khum Lanna will be on join-in basis
2. Thai Lanna will be closed on Saturday, September 30th, 2006 for Ming and Ratana's 30th year anniversary. We apologize for any inconvenieces
3. The northern culture of LANNA will be focused on during the SONGKRAN festival in CHIANG MAI, with about three billion baht worth of tourist earnings
4. LANNA will be using her real psychic ability and her accute powers of psychic clairvoyance,and her tarot cards to give you the answers that
5. The friendly staff at Lanna will be happy to help you with all of your dining needs.
6. The soldier greeted Dutch Dank with unwonted cordiality as he rode by, whispering to himself, "Lanna will be alone."
7. Chiangmai folks believe deeply those who have been blessed by the Saint Lanna will be remained in a state of peaceful & happiness for his/her entire life.
8. Lanna will be humming to herself why deciding what to wear when going ... (option 1) At first Lanna will be offended, since she did her very ...
9. People in Lanna will be required to speak Khammuang ( northern lao dialect ) so that the language of our parents parents will not die out
10. Pick-up at the Prague airport and transportation to Villa Lanna will be organized.

I am more powerful than I expected! I will require you to call me Saint Lanna from now on.

So, I am almost at the end of the fourth week at my new job. Yes, I got a new job! (If you follow me on twitter (look to the left), you probably already know this.) I am working as a Jr. Programmer/Analyst at a marketing research firm in Kennebunkport. Well, I am working for Aquent, a staffing agency for marketing companies, and my assignment is a temp-to-permanent. And I want to tell you a secret: I love it! Love it!

I still haven't figured out everything I will be doing, but the things I have been doing, learning Wincross, coding for both SPSS and Wincross, creating tons of crosstabulation tables (working on a project that had 241 tables for one version of the survey and 344 tables for the other version.) It's challenging, fun, and it's the kind of work I love, the kind with a finish point. When I complete a project, I can just move to the next one. Well, the way it will work, when I get totally up to speed, is that I will have many projects going at the same time.

That project I have been working on, wow, it has been very hard, and frankly, probably should have gone to one of the more experienced programmers. However, it fell through the cracks and it wasn't on anyone's production schedule, so I was asked to pick it up. I am so glad I got to do it. Because now, any other project will seem easy in comparison!

Oh, the picture above is from this February's Boskone. I brought my art to sell and I sold 2 pictures! (I realized I didn't mention it on the blog earlier.) (And I wanted to use a picture.) (So now I have.) (times two.)

How are you doing, internet?

Labels: geek, new job, programmer, yeah

Maybe I'll blog more? (heh, heh!)

BTW, look for an updated lannaleemaheux.com sometime in the next millenium! Sweet!

We now have a clean bathroom.

Fear me.

(And don't you love our new shower curtain?)

Labels: clean bathroom

Well, I am not doing NaNoWriMo this year. Not enough time. But, in solidarity with my NaNo friends, I will participate in NaBloPoMo!



Last night I helped my parents with their trick-or-treaters. This lovely pumpkin greeted each child:



Sweet, Huh?

We had 62 trick-or-treaters. Most of them liked the pumpkin.

No. I am not going to show you any pictures.