A friend of mine is leaving (fleeing?) the company, which is sad mostly because I wouldn’t have categorized her as a “friend” until six months ago even though we’ve been working in the same department for two years. Oh, she’s perfectly nice and all, but it takes a while to crack that work-acquaintance shell. Maybe it’s the […]
I can keep it a secret no longer: I’m starting my own side business designing Web sites for small businesses. I have far too much Web design “in me,” especially while working at a job where the management doesn’t seem to think much of my ideas (which are, of course, brilliant). You can only update static pages […]
I went to work for a couple of days this week. BOOOORING. Thus I shall amuse myself by recounting random things from the cruise. Follow along if you wish. We met a nice young couple from Finland who unfortunately had unpronounceable Nordic names. Seriously. Like some sort of exotic bird call rather than sounds created […]
Ding, cruise is done! We took the Carnival Valor from Miami to Grand Cayman, Roatan Island off the coast of Honduras, Belize, and Costa Maya in the Yucatan, plus a couple of days at sea in among all that. We had a few panic moments (“Where’s our tender? What do we do now? What did […]
Now everyone can see how much I suck. Hooray.
My wife’s birth certificate came in from Puerto Rico this afternoon, AFTER she had already requested another copy using some funky online form that the P.R. Federal Action Administration (or something like that) pointed her toward. She’ll have two copies and wants to try to get a passport with one of them. We’re off to […]
Personal stuff ahead, and it’s a long twisting story with no real ending to boot. So that’s two reasons you probably won’t want to read this update. Still here? Okay: Donna (my wife, for those scoring at home) and I are going on a cruise. We don’t have passports, but we’ve gone in the past […]
I’ve spent a few minutes over at archive.org plucking up a bunch of my old Web updates and vomiting them like lovingly digested worms into the gaping mouth of my new Web site, so that it may grow healthy and strong with the history of its forebears. Good lord what a disgusting and convoluted analogy. […]
I notice that my traffic has jumped since I added some content on this site. For those of you passing through … er, hello there, don’t mind the dust, this site isn’t exactly live but it’s not “PRIVATE GO AWAY MY SLIP IS SHOWING” either. I’m moving stuff over from an old static site which […]
Where the hell have I been, you ask? None of your beeswax, I reply. … Okay, okay. I have this amazing idea for a Web site redesign. I’ve been working on it off and on since even before my last update. Seriously, you guys are gonna plotz (in a good way). I wanted to get […]