Somedays you just need to scratch your head, loose your thoughts, and sit back. I've not had one of those days in a long long time.

I call it the maddening. That part of the season where you just are so damned busy you can't help but start feeling a little frustrated. For some of the year I own my time, I make the call on what to do and how it's ( Read more... )

We all have towels. We all wash towels. Some of us wear them on our heads to fend off the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal!

After a while those towels start to become rough and don't seem to dry as well. Apparently this is because of the soap and possible fabric softeners used when washing and drying.

There's a better way to keep your towels ( Read more... )

I didn't see the first plane hit, I was working. Someone had come by my desk and mentioned that their was a massive fire at the WTC. I logged off the phone and walked to the coffee room, I was at Worldcom at the time and Bernie hadn't lost his mind yet so we still had coffee.

We were watching the TV when the network stopped focusing on the talking ( Read more... )

My oldest started kindergarten today.

It's strange but doesn't make me feel old. I believe that won't happen until he's in High School.

I took him to his bus stop, I wasn't sure what to expect from him.


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it's been raining. That's put the kibash on getting the garden set up we wanted. Can't complain overmuch as the ground needs it.

Originally published at - Wil. You can comment here or there.

Although the title for this may sound like a post about taxes, with it's associated aggravations, it's not. Just so happens that I am currently doing taxes and finding an excuse to do something else.
There is a new color in my life, the color green. I'm not talking about "green with envy" or "being green from sickness".
It's that dreaded tree ( Read more... )

As you can see from the date stamp I didn't post after the 25th.

I was having to much fun!

My company lets us off between Christmas and the first Monday of the New Year. Daphne and I spent a lot of that traveling to various people's houses for holiday related shenanigans.

Alas, the camera was forgotten for most of these trips. What pictures we do ( Read more... )

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Be Forewarned this post is technical!
My home network is a Mac OS X network.  I’ve always had a place for Mac in my heart but not the cash flow to support that habit. Regardless of the lack of games and compatibility I still had an itch for that OS. In my last job I was hired as a Apple Admin initially and loved it.
When OS X came out I was ( Read more... )

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