Greg - Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Peter - Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

My family is small to begin with, and most recent Thanksgivings since my father died have been way too small. But yesterday we put an extra leaf in the big table and timed dinner so my sons' girlfriends could join us after their own family dinners. So we had Greg, Kayla, Peter, Emily, Laura, wotw, his daughter Cayley and her friend Ron, and me. ( ( Read more... )

I spent the last couple of days doing Interesting and Useful Work. It was a lot of fun. Not only that, it was noticed and appreciated. Not only that, it was noticed that I should be spending more time doing this sort of Cool Hard Stuff and less time doing Boring Routine Stuff, and it was suggested that maybe we should even hire someone else to ( Read more... )

My daughter is on her fifth day of fever. Both sons had it. At least 10% of the school district is out sick on any given day. Sons report 1/4 of their classes had substitute teachers today ( Read more... )

Friday I got a nice email from X warning me that he had had a private meeting with Dean Y and Vice-Provost Z, and, partly as a result of what X said, he feared Y and Z were going to publicly throw me under the bus at Monday's meeting ( Read more... )

My readers will recall that two weeks ago I gave major presentations to the CIO and directors of our 210-person IT organization. My six team members and I have been working on this process re-engineering project for five months (in addition to our day jobs). They nominated me to present our recommendations. The recommendations include formation ( Read more... )

This week the kids and I have or had ( Read more... )

The College of William and Mary is still the prettiest campus *evar*

Just sayin'

Last week: $500 on brakes and oil change for van ( Read more... )

My three kids and their respective girlfriends (or "just friend" in one case) and boyfriend are off ice skating together. A triple date (though Laura would hate to hear me say that). Peter drove. I can't tell you how weird, but also wonderful, this feels. (The fact that I like the girlfriends/boyfriend doesn't hurt ( Read more... )