Twenty-two years ago, I was just minding my own business.

At the consulting company where I worked, I had just finished developing BankBoston’s HomeLink & OfficeLink banking applications, and was about to roll onto a new project for a local startup.

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I agreed to play this meme, so now I have to post.

The idea is this: Ask me, and I’ll pick three of your listed interests and three of your userpics and ask you to talk about them. Express your interest in a comment on this entry.

Here are the ones greatsword asked me to talk about: Interests: bentmen, hand_drumming, vipassana.
Images: Righteous, ( Read more... )

It’s been a couple weeks since the Puggle left home, and I’m pretty well adjusted. I think the main source of my anxiety was the thought of him suffering, and not knowing what I could do for him. But now he’s beyond all that. The high drama of his impending death is over, and it’s just a question of adjusting to his absence as a known, unchangeable ( Read more... )

I know it’s tedious to read about everyone’s end-of-year natterings, so I’ll keep mine brief.

Having just gone through a very difficult period, I’m naturally inclined to write 2005 off as just a series of very painful events. However, when I went to make a list of the good and the bad, I discovered a very ( Read more... )

The world has lost a beautiful, beautiful soul.

I guess it’s time for the promised Puggle update. You’ll recall that I took him to the vet on Wednesday the 14th for labored breathing, and he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, with only a short time left to live.

That day, the vet drained the built-up fluid from his chest, which gave him ( Read more... )

Every so often you have to do the Friday Five. Or two, since there’s two of them going now…

thefridayfive:
What is the oldest object in the room with you? Probably an early Waltham 8-day deck watch / marine chronometer, in its ( Read more... )

Puggle is dying.

I brought the little guy in to the vet because for the past few weeks he seemed to be having gradually more and more difficulty breathing. No apparent pain or even much discomfort, which is good. But despite that, the vet’s diagnosis is dire: congestive heart failure.

There aren’t many options to consider. Untreated, he will die ( Read more... )

Is nothing sacred anymore?

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Thanks (grudgingly) to marm0t, the Puggle has discovered Catster. Now, in addition to the House of Puggin’, he’s also got his own Pug page on Catster!

I swear, if he gets more friends than I have on LJ, I’ll limit his Internet time.

Typically, I haven’t kept any plants in the house. Part of the reason for that is the wide discrepancy of opinion about what house plants are and are not dangerous for cats. Another part is that the Puggle has always demonstrated great relish in destroying any living thing I bring into his environment. I used to buy cut flowers for my entryway at ( Read more... )