I hate it when I haven’t posted in a few days; too much to recap and there’s always something forgotten. Maybe I’m getting old or at least more gray. Maybe all those gray hairs are ruining my memory. It’s nice though to forget things every now and then especially when people remind you that you’ve forgotten something they needed you to do.

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I've spent the past couple hours debating whether or not to write about the results of the sleep study.  My personal feelings and how I'm to recollect the events of last night are forcing me to talk about something completely different: the $200 price drop on the iPhone.  Personally I feel Apple is making the right decision to lower the price but ( Read more... )

Friday started off like any other Friday. I took Tyler to school, stopped at Burger King and got myself a bite for breakfast, and drove to work. Weather was a little peculiar but all the forecasts said it wasn’t going to be bad. Following my arrival, chatting with my boss for a few minutes, I headed into my office to review e-mail and voice-mails, ( Read more... )

Leaving for Columbus, Ohio in two hours.

Now that Circuit City is immediately laying off approximately 3,400 of its highest paid [in store, non-upper management] workers (“Circuit City Stores, Inc. Announces Additional Changes to Improve Financial Performance.” Circuit City Stores Newroom) you have to think about how that’ll affect their customer service. Oh wait, they never had good ( Read more... )

I finally discovered how to upgrade to first class on an international flight.

It must be difficult to find a job looking like this…


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I found a solution to long meetings: lose the chairs!

Read about it here.

While working at my corporate office I remember sitting in meetings for one, two, sometimes three hours while listening to various chairs squeak, the presenter ramble on about this or that, showing miserably made PowerPoint slides, while talking at the audience instead of to ( Read more... )

Leaving for Seattle.

Much to Jessica’s happiness, the oven arrived this morning at 7:50.  I’d take a picture of it but then the world would see the kitchen that surrounds it and there is absolutely nothing about the kitchen that either Jessica or I care for.

Last night we finally got the Christmas tree in the house and decorated with lights.  There would be ornamental ( Read more... )