We arrive at Seekers books a little after 4pm. Mike is meeting us here at five, assuming he received Melissa’s message. I find a few books, but nothing that exciting. I’m perusing the literature section when Mike arrives. He is wearing jeans, a white shirt and a maroon sweat shirt; very different from his “going out clothes” he wore when we met ( Read more... )

I went to Toronto this weekend. It was great. I really like the downtown area.

This is a useful post:
The best source that I have found for creating a slipstreamed XP2 installation disk is here:-
http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html
Very concise instructions, were you can't really go wrong.This is important to my ( Read more... )

Being that I am in IT at a Microsoft development shop I have to look at the MS technologies as they come out. MS has started the distribution of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. I have been getting a litany of emails from users that SP2 has, as one person put, "pooched" his workstation. Unfortunately I have to brave this unreliable piece of software ( Read more... )

While showering this morning my mind was other places thinking of other things. I thought of the street I grew up on in Rhode Island an elderly man who lived at the top of the street named Bert ( Read more... )

I have heard from many people that I should not have apologized earlier this week; that what I said was true and that the people should have looked past the “tone” or harshness and looked at the main message. I disagree. In my code of ethics, it was the right thing to do for me and here is why. I did not apologize for the opinions I had. I still ( Read more... )

Buddhism has a rich history of sutras and commentaries. Often they give good, practical advice even if one is not a Buddhist. Here is a excerpt from the Anguttara-Nikaya. I thought it relevant based on the some of the happenings lately.
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There are times I think astrology is just a bunch of bunk. Other times, like this, I find it to be very interesting. Here is the most recent post from _sagittarius. I am copying into my journal so I don't lose it if the group gets deleted. After reading this, let me know if you thinks this has any relaationship to how you see me. Also, FYI my b-day is December ( Read more... )

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The weekend so far. . .

After work Friday, Melissa and I went shopping for a few things and then went to eat at Ippolitos. I had been craving a spinach and eggplant calzone and finally had one. From there we went home where I had a 90 minutes phone call with scarletserpent where she bitched me out for being so rude to peter418 in her LJ. At the time I was defensive but ( Read more... )