I just received this image via email:
I must say, I haven’t seen a poster quite so appropriate to my workplace in awhile, aside from of course the gems at despair.com.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to find the source of this image, so if it is your creation or if you have information about its copyright, please contact me and I will remove or credit as appropriate.
I got an email about a Microsoft promotion at around the same time my friend and coworker, Adam, was discussing it. He showed me the link, which required watching a set of ASP.NET webcasts in order to qualify for the free offer. When I finally got around to doing so, I followed the link from my email, which also mentioned watching the 3 webcasts to receive a book, exam discount voucher, etc. What I didn’t realize, until I got my loot today and noticed that it was different loot than what Adam had gotten, was that the two offers are subtly different.
Different books, different vouchers, different expiration dates. So I’m excited that both book and exam voucher should serve me well for my current MCTS certification path. Now I wonder…. can one qualify for both free offers?
Music is really a strange thing. It is to poetry what sculpture is to drawing. It gives it form and shape and texture that simply cannot be captured in two dimensions. It’s been pointed out to me recently that I have unusual tastes in music, and I suppose that’s true enough. I definitely enjoy an eclectic range of styles, and while there are some styles that I gravitate to more than others, I daresay there is no musical genre in which I can’t find something of beauty.
What a person listens to says a lot about that person; it speaks of taste and personality and history. My own history undoubtedly has something to do with my musical tastes. I am fortunate to have two parents with beautiful voices, and impromptu a capella ”oldies” like folk songs or Negro spirituals were common fare for any car trips. My mother sang my brother and me to sleep each night to the sound of Peter, Paul and Mary, and I learned to roller-skate to her collection of 45’s. My husband laments that she has warped me for life. 
Most particularly, the songs that most draw me are those with lyrics that evoke a response, be it tears or smiles or laughter. And vocal harmony has a strong attraction for me as well. When both of those elements are combined, well, I’m going to be lost in the song for awhile.
Winter, spring
It’s what love can truly bring
Ice turns to water
Water flows to everything
You can lose your mind
Baby, then your heart you’ll find
I hope you won’t give up whats movin’ you inside
So if you’re waitin’ for love
Well it’s a promise I’ll keep
If you don’t mind believing that it changes everything
Then time will never matter
~ Jars of Clay, “Sunny Days”
