I always loved receiving holiday newsletters because they present a blog-like view, in Cliff’s Notes-length of what’s been going with a family during the last year. (My mother-in-law is the Jedi Master of these.) Hoping, perhaps naively, others shared this enthusiasm, we’ve put together one of our own for the last decade and a half. […]
Generic Seasonal Greetings Read More »
We had the (near) perfect plan for kid-sitting so we could attend my company’s holiday party on Friday: we were going to swap turns with another family whose company party was Saturday night. My youngest daughter was acting sluggish Thursday night, a sure sign of imminent malaise. The other family was okay with exposing their
Coughing, sneezing, itching, wheezing Read More »
Partly Sunny: 29° F, wind 0°@ 0 mph, visibility 9 mi, 74% humidity This morning’s weather My virtual odometer rolled past 3,500 this morning on what was a post card view of Seattle: clear as a bell, Olympic mountains dusted with snow, pink sunrise reflecting off their peaks. So cold, but oh so pretty! Too
Maybe they assume I’m sending the half-pound’s worth of items to the Moon instead of Chicago? It’s unlikely I’ll consummate this purchase transaction. Maybe instead I’ll rent a limo for the weekend. Greets to my friends at Amazon! (If only the items were in stock… )
So much for the free shipping… Read More »
This can’t be good… I use Windows most of the time, but needed to get a handle on what people are running. For reasons I don’t want to get into, my product requires several different executables to address combinations of data width (32- or 64-bit or Itanium 64-bit), kernal version (2.4 or 2.6) and the
BSoD screensaver and my dying laptop Read More »
Biking home through the snow yesterday afternoon was interesting. The only truly miserable part was when snowflakes flew into my eyes: at first it stings, then the snow melts and I can’t see out of that eye for a few blinks. Fortunately it wasn’t coming down hard until the last hill.
It’s been a few years since I’ve been this genuinely immersed into work, and I’ve been tapped out when it comes to discretionary creative blogging time. So, here’s a random fluttering of the last two weeks…
The Weather Channel never looked so good Read More »
Last weekend was my kid’s last soccer game of the “season.” Spectating in 43°F, rainy weather is much more miserable than biking in the same. At least with biking, I can hit the metabolic equilibrium and stay warm. As a bonus, I can expectorate and maintain my cycling game face (e.g., grimace). All of the