Family and Friends: In the last couple of days, you might have gotten a really convincing-looking “breaking news” email from MSNBC or CNN; even if you haven’t signed up for CNN or MSNBC news alert emails… A word of warning about these emails; They’re completely and utterly bogus, and if you follow the links they […]

Happy Birthday, Catherine! Congratulations on making it to your first birthday, and not keeling over in embarassment from a dad who posts pictures like this one on the internet to commemorate the occasion! Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure Mommy will put up something more flattering later.

I was kind of worried that my outdoorsman muscles had atrophied somewhat, since it had been some time since I’d been camping regularly, but the skills honed through many years of Scouting (where I hit a peak average of an outing every eight weeks or so some time in my mid-teens) came back without a […]

Through the wonders of wordpress scheduled posting, the post you are reading will indeed post on Friday. I probably won’t be at the keyboard, because we’ll be driving to our camping destination (the campground apparently has wifi, so there will probably be a computer in the car, though). Anyway, here are your tunes: “Opening Band” […]

After a day a somewhat better day at the office (one particular hour notwithstanding), this evening was actually really quite enjoyable. I took a nice evening walk through the neighborhood, stopping first at the local Olssons bookstore to browse the shelves and bullshit a little bit with the geeky, funky staff, who are always good […]

I spent a great deal of my work day today processing manual purchase orders in the system so that others might abuse them during the tesing process. This was a dull, repetitive task, but one which needed to be one, and for some reason, I’m better at doing these than anyone else in the room. […]

On the whole, the weekend wasn’t a bad one, though the shadows of a couple of serious downers cast a somewhat nasty pall over a generally okay landscape. Not the best of metaphors, I admit, but accurate nonetheless. I took a few hours off of work on Friday, which is always a good way to […]

I grew up in small-town America in the 1980s. My parents divorced when I was fairly young. I qualified for the reduced-price lunch for a good chunk of my stint in public school. I worked my tail off in school, got into college, paid for thanks to student loans and part-time jobs. Again, I worked […]

The various systems at work this week conspired to actually make the work week relatively, pleasantly busy. Which of course, made things fly by pretty quickly. It doesn’t get much better than that, really. Anyway, here’s today’s tunes: “Bastards of Young” – The Replacements “My Monkey” – Jonathan Coulton “Who Are You” – Scarlett Johannson […]