I ran across a girl from way back... back when I was young. Conversations led to her plying through my journal; her comments on it got *me* reading back, and appreciating LJ's new (to me) ability to keep going and going (rather than that crappy calendar after 40 entries ( Read more... )

I just sent a long technical email that finished with, "...the joy of being a concept person is I don't have to code *any* of that ( Read more... )

I flipped across a radio station today and passed through Carrie Underwood's "Think Before He Cheats." The lyrics sung out "carved my name into his leather seats..." and the words took a second to sink in as I flipped to the next channel.

"Weird," I thought. "I always though she said legacy, not leather seatsSo I looked it up on the internet and ( Read more... )

Just picking my way through the day... I have a list of things figured out for my day but it's pretty light and I'm trying to float through it, maintaining a low profile and letting this light hangover subside. I'm tempted to go home and relax for a day.

Back in Houston again, but then you didn't know I left. Sunday afternoon the plan was to drive out to a dock in the soft underbelly of Louisiana and from there head to a rig.... some project that has been delayed a lot and which I knew would occur eventually. There's an oilfield delay curve which slowly narrows in on a date; you can always assume ( Read more... )

This morning I walked out the front door and was confronted by two chickens ( Read more... )

Checking my journal I was surprised to find it's been over a month since I've made a public posting. Yes, I am still alive if you haven't heard of me. No, I haven't done anything extreme to make that even close to not the case ( Read more... )

I just did tai chi in my rose garden.

The long steps required to be able to make that statement are not lost to me and in fact enhance the experience.

This morning I met an overseas deadline of 10am (U.S.) at 9:40am. I got the final duck in-row at 9:30a and got my confirmation at 9:40a. Then I took a nice warm shower, since I'm working from home today (after advising all my subcontractors I pulled it off ( Read more... )

you have no idea how many times I've come up to a computer, or driven the many arteries of this land, or simply sat and thought... and planned to write something here. Thoughts are whisps that escape too readily from the world, and although they form like stars int he dusty nebulous space of my skull, they quickly hop the first gust of wind out my ( Read more... )