I’m heading up to NYC this evening to hang out with jen_ashlock, Jason ,Norm, Vicky, and who knows who else. Taking Acela first class for the first time (making use of my miles). I should be in Astoria by about 9:30 or so but will likely be offline until late tonight. The Big Birthday Bash…
I have complained before about how we are so flooded with information these days, that it is virtually impossible to keep up. I send out an email message to friends at work each year, giving an estimate of how much email I actually read versus what I receive. In FY2005, I read just over 1…
I don’t like free verse poetry. I think that I’ve known this subconsciously for some time, but it hit the surface tonight while I was skimming through the most recent NEW YORKER. (Although I am a subscriber to the NEW YORKER, I rarely do more than skim each issue.) Each issue has several poems in…
I was supposed to run yesterday, as I’m trying to do this cardio thing three times a week for starters, on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, but as circumstances would have it, I didn’t get home until late yesterday and was too tired. So I am back from my second run this week and this one felt…
What ever happened to manners? I went to Subway for lunch today. When I paid for my meal ($7.50), I gave the cashier $8.00. There is an automatic change machine there, so out rolled two quarters, followed by a dime. I looked at the receipt to be sure I wasn’t imagining things. Then I said…
April 6 is the first day of my New Year. There are several reasons for this. For one thing, it is close to the beginning of spring, and until relatively recently in human history, the new year was celebrated with the coming of spring at the end of March. Second, it is the day that…
I upgraded both my laptop and desktop machines to OS 10.4.6 tonight.
My credit union is offering a great deal on certificate accounts (5.05% on 13-months) and I could ignore it no longer. In addition, you can add to the balance up to the opening amount. Tonight, I opened an account. It took less than a minute to do online and that one minute’s worth of time…
It’s been a long day. First off, I really have to stop trying to stay up for these west coast Yankee games because while I may not feel tired in the morning, I start to drag in the afternoon and now, at nearly 8:30, I am totally wiped out. I stayed late at work today…
This entry is for Vicky, who checked in today to make sure I was keeping this blog up-to-date, lest she not know what I had for lunch today. I figure if she saw her name here, she’d be content. Vicky is “special”. You see, she is a Mets fan. Enough said, right? So I try…