• Go American League!

    12 Jul 2006 » 1 min read about Sports

    Well, it’s the middle of the 4th inning with the National League winning 2-1. Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to stay up for the whole game. I’ve had a pretty bad allergy attack this afternoon and this evening, I’ve been loading up on antihistamines. They are just barely beginning to kick in but…

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  • More work on “Graveyard Shift”

    12 Jul 2006 » 1 min read about Writing & Publishing

    I just finished going through the first 7,800 words of “Graveyard Shift” tightening it up a bit, making some correction, and looking for loose ends. And you know what. So far, it reads pretty well I think, and it moves pretty quickly. The novella presently stands at 16,300 words. There are at least three more…

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  • Ad-man to the rescue

    11 Jul 2006 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    How often does this happen: I was sitting at work, minding my own business, when someone sent a question to one of our aliases, asking if anyone knew about a commerical where a bunch of people are in a boardroom, saying, “We’ve got to be more nimble. How would so-and-so do it?” They knew nothing…

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  • The Zone

    11 Jul 2006 » 1 min read about Productivity & Tools

    This morning, I was in “the zone”. I had a very specific set of tasks I wanted to complete, and with some focus, I completed them! These included finishing off design documents for a .NET project I am managing, as well as fixing a problem with the installation of some .NET libraries on my work…

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  • We lost

    11 Jul 2006 » 1 min read

    We were playing short one player so we had to take an automatic out each time that slot came up. Naturally, that was a liability we couldn’t afford. Overall we played well, with several 1-2-3 innings and a couple of good plays, but we couldn’t get offensive rally’s going with the automatic out.

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  • Softball tonight

    10 Jul 2006 » 1 min read

    I’m about to change into my softball uniform, in preparation for our game tonight. We had to scrape for players, but I managed to get us a couple at the last minute so we have a full lineup. We are playing a team that’s 3-1 and we are 1-4, but I go into every game…

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  • Protected: Drinks, Dinner, Lunch

    10 Jul 2006 » 1 min read

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  • Congratulations Norm and Vicky!

    10 Jul 2006 » 1 min read

    Just a word of congratulations to Norm and Vicky (a.k.a. vickyandnorm)on their very recent engagement this past weekend. Norm proposed to Vicky at the end of the grand finale of a fireworks display they’d gone to watch in Connecticut. Talk about seeing stars! I talked to both of them shortly thereafter and they both sounded…

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  • Gym and personal trainer

    10 Jul 2006 » 1 min read about Fitness & Health

    Well, I’ve done it. After 4 years of not belonging to a gym and 4 years of no regular workouts, I am once again a member of Bally’s Total Fitness. There is a great Bally’s gym right here where I work, and another brand new one at the Metro station by my house so I…

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  • Happy 39th Anniversary, Mom & Dad

    10 Jul 2006 » 2 min read

    Today is my parent’s 39th wedding anniversary–or as I like to call it, their “Jack Benny” anniversary. It’s funny, really, how people never want to share their age, once they are older than, say, 39 years; and yet these same people are so proud of how many years they have been married. Next year is…

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