Here’s a joke. What do you get when you mix an exhausted dad with a new teen driver. Answer. Tired. Ok, not much of a joke but a good description of my Friday night. After a long and stressful week I arrive home at 7:30 with no more ambition than collapsing. Leaving late meant I had to [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Frank at iflipflop tagged me. Now it is my turn to play. All right, here are the rules. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. [...]
A lot of spam hits this blog. Some even gets through the spam filter. Most of the spam are sites to buy cheap prescription drugs. I thought this one was interesting. Hi all! My name is Eugene. I am from Ukraine! I am engaged in construction! My business goes well! Recently I had a problem [...]
I spent the day working with a challenging client. The challenge is that this client asks for your opinion but then takes a tone of “What could you possibly be thinking?” when reacting to what you say. It seems as what is really desired is for me to say exactly what she wants to hear. I charge way [...]
Within about 20 minutes this morning I found out that my mother had been admitted to the hospital and my son’s soccer team won their tournament. While not events of a common magnitude, I had this brain flash of movement from the generation behind me to the one in front. Mom has not been well for awhile with [...]
I can be a very critical guy. It is much easier for me to identify your faults, only to help you correct them of course, than it is to appreciate your gifts. However, something I have known for a long time but often neglect to see became clear the other day. My wife brings color to my life. [...]
As a counter to yesterday’s post, I wanted to share some good things that are coming your way in the foreseeable future. Visual implants using technology borrowed from digital cameras may bring limited sight to the blind. New wind powered electricity technology harvesting power from winds high above the eath’s surface where the jet stream winds are [...]
There are far too many scary things in this world. These are two I uncovered recently that are near the top of my “Its Keeping Me Up At Nights” list. First Russia. Yes the still have tons of nuclear bombs. True, they can turn off crucial natural gas supplies to former Soviet Union countries and western [...]
By entertainment, I am definitely not referring to the near awful new Fantastic Four movie. Great visuals but dialogue written by an illiterate 4th grader. The Black Ensemble Theater was founded thirty years ago by a visionary named Jackie Taylor. It was discovered by our family more than 10 years ago. We have been to [...]
Youth. Technically its mine not yours but I am already playing loose with Paul Simon. 51 years young on Monday. I no longer wait for milestone birthdays to get reflective. Last year a friend who had just turned 60 told me that the 50s are great. People hit their stride and have an opportunity to take [...]
