It always seems to be a race to the end of the year. I’ve been feeling pretty lazy these last couple weeks but today I started knocking things off the old mental to-do list. I sent out a slew of “thank you” notes for various gifts I received for the holidays (is it me, or…

Lots of things to do, and I feel like I’m running in six different directions at once: trying to get my newly revised reading website up and running by January 1. Trying to complete Forward the Foundation before the end of the year. Trying to get this blog squared away so that I can make…

As I mentioned yesterday, we all went to bed pretty early last night, right around 9 PM. I was pretty tired and dozed off almost right away, but I was awakened 40 minutes later by the sound of… well… I couldn’t quite tell where it was coming from because sound seems to echo among the…

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Travel day today and all-in-all things went very smoothly. I didn’t have to get up too early since my flight to Lihue didn’t leave LAX until 1 PM. When I finally did get up, I watched last night’s episode of “House”, which I had taped. Doug and Rachel drove me to LAX at about 10…

Doug, Rachel and I went over to Andy and Mandy’s for dinner tonight and had a great time. Lisa was there as well (although she went home early because she wasn’t feeling well). Andy cooked a ton and a half of chicken and tri-tips on the grill, we had a delicious salad and we brought…

I was up early because I’m still on east coast time and because I had an idea for a last minute change in the toast I was to give in the wedding later on in the evening. So I rewrote the entire toast (about 650 words) in 39 minutes and I felt it was much…