I was up early this morning because I went to bed early last night. I didn’t have a big breakfast because I knew we’d be meeting up for lunch later on today. So I walked toward the Santa Monica pier and got a donut on the way there. I sat at the end of the…
I got back to the hotel at around 5 PM and I am bored out of my mind. Everyone always has plans on Friday nights so it’s hard to find people to hang out with. I figured I’d come back here to the hotel and read or write, and I find that I’m in the…
I was up and into work by 6:30 AM so that I could get some work done before breakfast. I then met Tammy for breakfast just before 8 AM. It was great to see her. We went to a coffee house and bagel place nearby and spent about an hour chatting and catching up. Tammy…
Just back from a Mexican restaurant in Santa Monica called El Cholo. I had dinner there with Pam and Eric Webb. Pam introduced me to a something-or-other Cadillac margarita, of which I had two, which was more than enough. The room is still spinning as I type this (back in the hotel, in bed). I…
I completed the first draft of a new short-short science fiction story, “Blind Date”. The idea for this story was inspired by Lisa’s forgetting to pick me up for the kickball game this past Sunday. It’s nothing spectacular, but it amuses me. The premise couldn’t possibly hold for very long, so the story runs about…
It was fun. I ended up playing in the “veterans” game and Lisa and I were on the same team. Joel was there too and he was on the other team. I went 1 for 3 (my first “at bat” got a base hit) and played second base the entire game. I made 3 outs:…
Another day full of Crystal Reports training classes, which are going very well. We start on the next class tomorrow, and tomorrow, it’s just Rita, Pam, and myself that are in the class. When I got into work (at 6:30 AM) email still was not working for Washington folks, but by the end of the…
Lisa invited me to play in a pickup game of softball this evening in Venice so I’m getting ready. By getting ready, I mean stretching, particularly my left quad. Don’t want to tear it again. I haven’t played kickball since 6th grade so it should be fun.
It’s 3:55 AM here in Santa Monica and for the third night in a row I have had a series of crazy and bizarre dreams. Maybe it’s something in the water here. At this point, however, I am nearly wide awake and I’m not sure it would be worth it to try going back to…
I’ve just spend the last 30 minutes or so reading through the most recent posts to LiveJournal to see what random people write in their blogs. It was a depressing 30 minutes. Keep in mind that my blog is a replacement for a diary that I have kept for nearly 10 years now. My diary…