Every day, I try to write an original quote that I've heard or said on my whiteboard at work.  This morning, I had nothing.  I went over to Adam’s cube.  Now, Adam is from East Texas.  If you’re not familiar with East Texas it means a slow, heavy southern accent.  Adam’s voice and opinions boom out many times from his cube over the course of ( Read more... )

Now, my politics are all over the board.  I had even planned to vote for Obama that year because, even though I liked McCain better, I didn’t think he had much of a chance to heal the wounds that existed between the left and right.  I’ll take a little bit of socialism as the price for a united country.  I made the joke to Dean as we were leaving ( Read more... )

    James, John and Nick have been engaged in a thirty minute conversations about grills and grilling right next to my cube.  Everywhere else is dead silent.  It’s gray and rainy outside and I think everyone’s mind here at the office has been wandering.  Myself, I have been putting off work that I should be doing and thinking about how to organize ( Read more... )

     So, this weekend I helped Hope move.  This was complicated by several facts: 1) I have a two-seater roadster with no (zero) cargo capacity.  2) Hope got into a fender-bender on Friday and thus her SUV (with excellent cargo capacity, mind you) was put out of action. 3) The rental car, which was reserved and paid for by Hope’s insurance, was not ( Read more... )

    So, let’s see what’s in the news today …. J.D. Salinger died, Miramax closed down, and Priscilla’s in labor.  The first two items make me feel kinda sad.  I still haven’t made it all the way through ‘Catcher in the Rye’, but I mean to.  Miramax has been around all my life and so I feel nostalgic for its demise.  Priscilla having a baby … well, ( Read more... )

    Heh … I work for a networking company, and that’s the current geeky in-joke floating around the cube farm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_Control if you care).   That being said, it looks like a cool little device.  I’ve been debating getting a laptop for a while and ( Read more... )

Girl Scouts and their cookies … damn them.  It’s that time of year again, and GS and their cookies are like gravity - ubiquitous and irresistible.  I have a box on my desk at work, along with every other co-worker of mine.  I’ve got a box on my coffee table at home, too.  And in my freezer. It’s to the point where I dread answering my door, going ( Read more... )

So, one of my New Year's resolutions (besides getting organized) is to make sure that I stay in touch with my friends.  All too often, I have seen that as people grow older and get into more serious relationships (along with having children) that they drop out of life.  Real jobs also contribute to this disappearance as well. There just simply isn' ( Read more... )

So, here I am.  Let the flood of friends commence.