Yesterday evening I was on that other social networking site when my daughter-in-law sends a chat message telling me that my son wants to tell me something. That something turns out that in another 7 and a half months or so, I am going to be a grandpa again! (The again part is for me obviously, this will be his first kid.) Now I am going to have ( Read more... )

The question that is the subject pertains to two items of very recent personal history. The first being that I got an email from my daughter asking if I would like to do a 5km fun run on 13 February. I semi-agreed to doing it and we will talk more about when I get home in 2 weeks. I also posted that on FB as "I semi-agreed to do a 5km fun run." My ( Read more... )

Everything technical thing I have tried to do this week has met with abysmal failure! Whether it be work related stuff (Which btw my Double SOB backwards has struck again! Once again he has canceled the video conference {third time was NOT a charm} and now it is a race to see if I can get one extra day at home or will still have to leave on Sunday ( Read more... )

Where did the time go? I had meant to post an update on the travels and such, but never got around to making the time. Even now, in the midst of a very slow time with the project on the boat, I have not been very motivated to getting around to things that I had meant to do. The reason things are slow is because we are not acquiring data at a very ( Read more... )

Once again I find that I have not been able to manufacture the time to do what I had hoped to do as far as keeping this journal update ( Read more... )

The first leg of my trip to London for a week long training course is now complete and I have about two hours to kill in Houston. Therefore, I am making a quick post from my crackberry ( Read more... )

OK, I have been home for a little over a week now, though most of the time it has been a case of hoop jumping deluxe!

The meetings in the Rio office on 2 July went reasonably well I guess. I did finally meet the client who had been sending me emails in Portuguese that I could hardly understand. While I was in the office I also built several test ( Read more... )

I want to wish all of the dads out there a very Happy Father's Day. For that matter, I have the same wish for all of those out there who have or ever had a father. (I guess that covers everyone, except any of my readers who are pod people.) I hope everyone got to have some quality time over the weekend with their fathers  of their dads or at least ( Read more... )

Once again it appears that I have fallen behind in updating this journal. Aside from last week's haikusday post, I have been remiss in getting around to posting much. This break has been another case of wondering when I will meet myself coming in the door at the same time as I am leaving to do something else and wondering what the impact to the ( Read more... )

Yet another birthday greeting going out to bucknekid   I hope the day is full of good times and the year to follow is a good one.

And in other news, my daughter sent me an email about Oklahoma weather. While I am off the coast of balmy Brazil, the weather has been very dynamic at home. Yesterday, they had severe weather and thunderstorms and then today they ( Read more... )