All growed up…
#1 son is going to be 16 next month. But he’s always going to be the two-year-old who literally climbed up me trying to get away from a bunch of amorous (or hungry) ducks. Today I found this on his debit card statement: Now it used to be the most common “Merchant Name” I’d see [...]
Friends..
Life is too short to pursue friendships with people who obviously aren’t interested. Online it’s very easy to say to people, “Sure, if you’re ever in the area, stop by, we’ll hang out!” with all the enthusiasm in the world. Don’t say it unless you mean it. Because disingenuous people suck, and when someone sends [...]
I am not a PC…
So here it is. I bought a MacBook. After literally 10+ years of being a “Dell Guy”, well Dell finally ran out of laptops that I found interesting. My last notebook, the Adamo13 was one of my favorites. Ultra slim, solid state just about everything. Could do a 5 hour plane-ride without issue. But I [...]
Manual Labor…
Just a quick note… My kids are driving me nuts about school… Especially my 9 year old… This weekend, I have a GREAT idea… I have a pile of rocks in my back yard.. I’m going to ask him to move them from one side of the yard to the other. When he’s done with [...]
On Christmas…
Sparkles! It’s been a long time since I’ve felt good about Christmas… Maybe I’m finally growing up, or not growing up. Finding the inner child that was slaughtered so many years ago. Christmas was never a happy time growing up. Oh there were the usual trappings, trees, lights, presents, etc, as-nauseaum, But it was never [...]
Six days does not a week make…
My favorite quotes, from one of my favorite movies (“Barefoot in the park” -Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, 1967, though I first saw it as a TV stage production starring Bess Armstrong and Richard Thomas in 1981) (I’m writing this from Seat 1A of AirTran flight 749 to Baltimore, which is just *WAY* too cool for words. [...]
A good weekend…
You know… it’s weekends like the one I spent right before I left for Seattle that make me remember that despite everything, life is good. Started out on Friday by taking the day off. Well not “off” but “work from home” without any actual work-from-home to do. So coffee with the wife, turned into a [...]
Dear Teenager…
I’ve wiped your butt, cleaned up your puke, held you when you were sick, taught you to swim, and this is how you thank me…
Moody bastard…
I spent years being told to “snap out of it” that I was being unreasonable, that it was all in my head. Then when I received my diagnosis of Bi-Polar disorder (Back then they called it “Manic Depressive Personality Disorder”) and it was confirmed, I was *STILL* told to snap out of it. What part [...]
Conflict!
Women confuse me. Ok, well that’s not a news flash. I think women confuse most men. In the movies 2001/2010 we’re introduced to Hal. A “thinking” computer that goes nuts because he’s given conflicting instructions. He’s built to process information without distortion or concealment, but when the NSA tells him to lie about the monolith [...]
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