Hey everyone...remember me? I've been such a slacker about LJ lately, and not for any reason except I've got too much going on to contribute. I know that's the time I should be contributing, but really, it's nothing I feel anyone wants to hear about. I'm barely playing music anymore, Britt is still pregnant (8mos), and we're getting the house ready ( Read more... )

Back in the mid-'90s, I played sax in a local alt-rock band called Long Flat Red. We had a measure of success, at least in Atlanta and some of the Southeast (the scene was waaay different then, mind you) and had a pretty sizable fanbase. This was the band that was offered the infamous Taco Bell contract, played a NYE show at the Roxy, won a ( Read more... )

One of the few good things about my job is the fact that it can be done from home. So at the beginning of the year, I started making the necessary preparations to do just that. After taking my laptop to work, loading it up with the necessary software and codecs and what-have-yous, and doing several calls from the office on the laptop over the VPN ( Read more... )

In my line of werk, I do a lot of research on all kinds of companies. I have never had any problems doing this until Thomson merged with Reuters about six months ago, at which point the newly-combined IT department installed filters and blockers and restrictions on all their network web access. I know a lot of companies do this (to block file ( Read more... )

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Posting from the phone since Comcast seems to have misplaced our modem records or something like that. Hence no home internets. Whatever, it's still a good Holiday season over here. Xmas tomorrow with Britt's mother, followed by us making dinner of salmon, green beans, butternut squash risotto, wild mushroom soup and cheese straws. Friday ( Read more... )

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The carpet removal machine keeps rollin'.  We completed putting the new flooring in the guest bedroom and accompanying closet and bathroom.  I won't tell you how long it took; suffice it to say we're not going as quickly as we could.

We started in on the living room, moving half the stuff in it into the newly floored guest bedroom and the other ( Read more... )