Last week, the Navy sent me to the Cooper Institute in Dallas for training as a Physical Fitness Specialist. One thing that I can say in favor of Dallas - you can get Dr. Pepper everywhere! I went to watch the Rangers play, and they had Diet Dr. Pepper as a fountain drink ( Read more... )

My out of town work on Friday went quite wonderfully. All the parties involved were easy to get along with, amd we made a lot of progress towards site acquisition and development. I was quite happy that I provided some good ideas during the process, which to me justified my taking 6 hours away from my desk and driving for four hours. In addition ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting on the floor of my house, not eating, since I have a physical tomorrow and have to fast for 12 hours. I'm on the floor because I don't have any furniture down here any more, and I had to leave my fold-out futon-thing in NY for my brother's co-worker to sleep on. My brother's company sent him down to a job site in Sullivan County on ( Read more... )

I watched the fireworks in Manhattan with reesei, from the 38th floor of her apartment building. I considered taking a lightning road trip to Boston to watch from Shosh & John's place, but couldn't convince any of my friends to go with me & a trip like that without somebody else in the car to keep me awake isn't such a good idea ( Read more... )