Category Archives: Life
My, oh, my, how I had forgotten how good that movie really is. And when you see it with 8,500 other eager fans you can count on having a good time. The venue was Red Rocks Amphitheater, the movie, of course, was Monty Python and the Holy Grail (aka: Monti Python ik den Holie Grailen). [...]
July 19, 2005 | Life | 5 comments
Yes, she is. Puddlemonkey at the FDR Memorial in Washington DC.
July 14, 2005 | Life | 2 comments
After about a month in development (not counting the time that we set it down and didn’t work on it) the FuzzyCoconut XHTML Widget is here.
July 11, 2005 | Life | 8 comments
Well, after 3 years we’re finally taking a vacation. Before that it had been about 7 years since we’d taken a vacation. We’re going to DC until the 9th. We’ve got a ton of things planned. We’re gonna see friends from college (Stacy) and friends from the internet (John, Halbie, and Regan). We’re doing the [...]
June 30, 2005 | Life | 2 comments
This is mainly to remind myself to give these recipes to a couple of people. That’s not to say that you shouldn’t try these as they’re fantastic recipes. I make no claims to be the creator of these recipes – they were handed to me, source unknown.
June 26, 2005 | Life | 3 comments
As it sits now it is a bit crude, but in no way rude. The datebox has been replaced with a searchbox – this has been my plan all along but I just finally got around to implementing it. The search program is htDig and it works wonderfully. It is a spider based catalog system [...]
June 22, 2005 | Life | 7 comments
I’ve got a nagging feeling that my position on tipping at restaurants when you pick up food for take-out is a social faux pas. I don’t do it. I just don’t see what I should be tipping for. Typically when going to pick up carry out all you’re doing is being handed a plastic bag [...]
June 9, 2005 | Life | 8 comments
Though I’m not a particularly suspicious person now – I’m more a creature of habit than anything else – when I was younger I often wondered if the order in which actions were performed would have any bearing on the outcome of the event. My clearest memory of this is in reference to G.I. Joe [...]
June 5, 2005 | Life | 2 comments
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat !How I wonder what you’re at !Up above the world you fly,Like a tea – tray in the sky. ~ Lewis Carroll I can’t say where I originally heard this, but it is frequently in the back of my mind and came to the front tonight while on a walk with [...]
May 28, 2005 | Life | 2 comments
48 hours in a weekend. I worked for 30 of them. I didn’t go to bed Sunday night. Holy crap, why do I do these things to myself.
May 23, 2005 | Life | 4 comments
Whatever it is that is inside waiting to get out – let it out… For me its odd imagery that I often pick out of random noise patterns – like the faux marble coating on the bathroom stalls or in stucco. More often than not I let the image fade away and just go back [...]
May 13, 2005 | Life | 6 comments
I haven’t made a post in 8 days yet it feels like I’ve let this site fall into an abyss of obscurity. Odd the way time feels when you don’t really pay attention. I’m bad at judging the passage of time anyway but it seems that lately anything I let sit for a while seems [...]
May 10, 2005 | Life | 10 comments
Saw this first over at Mr. Scott’s site, so I can’t say I’m the first. But I thought it was hilarious to do. Notice I’m not wearing any pants – the possibilities for accurate self representation are definitely there. Check it out over at Planearium. Make one, post it here using the image tags. It’s [...]
April 26, 2005 | Life | 4 comments
The last two died quicker than the first, they had the benefit of being wacked by some pretty heavy handed traps. But I still feel bad. What an undignified way to go. Wacked. Then thrown away. At least larger animals get eaten when killed. These poor little dudes just got dropped in the trash. And [...]
April 18, 2005 | Life | 6 comments
Well, good news came down the pipe today at work – I get to shed the Jr. Web Designer moniker and start referring to myself as Web & Graphic Designer. This is a huge step as I started this job with just a working knowledge of Adobe GoLive’s automated workflow and have since moved on [...]
February 11, 2005 | Life | 2 comments
Heard this tonight and loved it: Take your work seriously and don’t take yourself seriously and you’ll do well the rest of your life.~Clint Eastwood Good advice.
February 6, 2005 | Life | No comments
It is a weekend of new stuff. New computers, new yard and a new trainer to help us with Bear. First things first – the wife and I splurged this weekend on new laptops. I’ve been wanting to go mobile for a while and the new 15″ G4 PowerBook upgrades were too much to resist. [...]
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Haven’t had an update in a while. Work has been grueling. Home has been busy. My brain is fried.
January 26, 2005 | Life | 6 comments
Got some good news at work in between the hammering of different things to do (very few of which fall within the actual job description). I talked to HR today and found out that what I’m asking for in a raise and title change is completely reasonable. In fact, what I’m asking is the entry [...]
January 12, 2005 | Life | 5 comments
Got a phone call at work, which is rare in itself, and it wasn’t even really for me. I got this phone call because I’m commonly referred to as the Webmaster at work. I think that is wrong but I don’t turn it down because maybe one day they’ll start paying me like a webmaster [...]
December 21, 2004 | Life | 1 comment
We woke up this morning to find that the little sticky trap that we’d bought worked and caught our mouse. The unfortunate part, and I knew it was coming, was that he was still alive. Plastered to the glue, breathing heavy, trying to get loose. Basically he was scared out of his mind.
December 8, 2004 | Life | 6 comments
Long story – short, open ending. I was approached by IT a while back about a job opening that they wanted me for. But considering the shift in focus, a required increase in knowledge of Windows systems integration (icky-poo!) and what I considered inadequate compensation for the level of responsibility that they were demanding I [...]
December 2, 2004 | Life | 5 comments
Got a phone call from my wife this afternoon. She was pretty frantic and upset. She had gone to lunch, come back to the office, worked for a while and was getting ready to head out to a dentist appointment. It was then that she realized that she could not find her purse or her [...]
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I ran a red light this morning. For some reason I thought it was my turn to go. Oncoming traffic had the green and the turn light and I think it was a lull in activity that got me to go – I probably thought by the lack of people turning that the light had [...]
November 29, 2004 | Life | 1 comment
Well, after turning in the work for this client and picking up more work (hey! don’t look at me like that – lemme finish) my client turned around and gave me an old printer since she recently upgraded. I am the proud new owner of an Epson 1520 inkjet printer. I know what you’re thinking [...]
November 21, 2004 | Life | No comments
