2004

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This entry was written offline, and is backdated. Today’s journey began at sunrise … 7:30 central time. After a brief stop for coffee and sustenance at my favorite Texas fast […]

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This entry was written offline, and is backdated. Today begins my cross-country odyssey to return friend BC’s van to its California home, and in the process transport myself to his […]

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I am completely at a loss to understand the canonical “business uniform”. I have to go to Virginia tomorrow to demonstrate my employer’s systems to a group of people from […]

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I have heard a lot of things about twelve-step programs, positive and negative. Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous have helped millions and I would not, for one second, impugn their […]

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Just days after installing the Movable Type software for the new blog, apparently the spammers found me … and went to work quite fast! In the first couple of days, […]

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Last night was spent working very late, on kind of a sad project. My friend Jerry, a songwriter and producer of note, has a studio in his basement that is […]

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Welcome! With some help from SimonG and a few other folks, my blog is now in new quarters, running on my own site using Movable Type. The look of the […]

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It is the simplest things, the ones others might see as insignificant, that I shall miss the most. I will miss sitting in our living room with my wife, watching […]

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Disclaimer: What follows might be depressing. It might be boring, and it will definitely be long. I’m disabling comments too. This is something I need to write, and need to […]

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Sick.  Sick with a cold, sick with sadness, just miserable. I may not write much here for a while. That is all.

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We lost a little friend on Friday.  He will be badly missed. Bandit was never meant to be … he was the result of hasty, unplanned sex that took place […]

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[WARNING: This will be a longish blog, because I’m including some quotes and snips that I think are important … if you hate long blogs, and don’t have time to […]

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The young woman you see to the right was a journalism student at Emerson College. She was a Boston Red Sox fan. She was bright, attractive, and by all accounts […]

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Yesterday was an interesting day.  My big blue and gold macaw, Sammy, came to the office with me so we could more conveniently get him to an afternoon grooming appointment. […]

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There’s been a recent flurry of stories in our blogring about teachers, and ways of gently but hilariously tweaking them. I’ve felt the need to participate, but most of my […]

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Very quickly and by way of explanation, I offer the following first paragraph. My wife and I had some problems in the last few weeks. There has been no betrayal […]

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In our office, the shipping and receiving guy, Mike, is the local junk food entrepreneur. An entire shelving unit in his office is filled with snack items which run the […]

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Borrowed from the terrific a capella vocal group, “Da Vinci’s Notebook”. I wish I were a bird, ‘Cause if I were a bird Then I could take wing high above […]