Edi, Edison, Erin and I flew out out to California on the 13th, over two weeks ago now. We flew into Los Angeles and drove to Fresno and back, spending about a week in Fresno ( Read more... )

This, I suppose, will go down in the 'history of me' category. The time has come to tell a story that will probably wander a bit. It's partly a trip down memory lane, but partly in anticipation of next week's trip to California. It's a story I've told many times, and I've written parts of it (here)but I don't think I've written it down with this ( Read more... )

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I just read through three letters I wrote in 1991 and 1992. Thanks to Paul for sending them. I thought I had kept them but they got lost somewhere along the way. I'm glad he had them ( Read more... )

After just under a week of 'playing' with my new laptop, I'm calling it good. Initially, I thought I'd just install Mandriva Linux and go on my merry way, but I thought it might be more beneficial for both myself and others to take some extra time and document the uniqueness of both this laptop and getting Mandriva running on it. This page is the ( Read more... )

Getting a new laptop for me has been pretty regular ( Read more... )

I enjoy taking personality tests... sort of. But really, they don't capture me. The way I think is different enough from the way the test writers think that I have difficulty answering some of the questions. Often, ambiguous questions would be answered in one extreme direction if the ambiguity was resolved a certain way, and in another extreme ( Read more... )

LJ needs to add a category thingy... There's mood and music. They need location. For a few hours I could set mine to "home". I'm actually on the ground in New Hampshire for more than 24 hours, but I didn't get home until after 2:00 p.m. and will be leaving tomorrow by 11:30 a.m. to go right back to the airport and leave again. Commercial to Abu ( Read more... )