Seems to have that bitter twang o f truth somehow:

"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." - Jim Rohn.

I was doing some very belated spring cleaning  of my desk today at work, and ran across a few post-it's in a drawer where I had jotted down some quotes that had caught my eye over the past year. They used to be affixed to the wall of my cube, but had been relegated to the drawer on a day much like today when I had decided I was over-dosing on ( Read more... )

Ha. I've been waiting for this little bit of news to pop up for a month or two now.  I switched out of comp. sci. after my first semester, and even I was leary of the iPhone's public Wi-Fi connections as a point of vulnerability to hackers. It's amusing to see my hunch vindicated.  I find this even more amusing, that the constrictions on the iPhone ( Read more... )

We could share another scotch and cigar and finish some of those conversations long left undone. Alas, for for fate having intervened.

Thinking of you today, Tim Maroney. I still miss you. I'm happy to have shared your life and love for a while.

So, in effort to keep some semblance of sanity (really, I don't know why I bother), I've been imbibing a daily tonic of  House M.D. back episodes to counter-balance the stress of working mucho extra hours the past two weeks.

As I picked up the box-set the other day, to slide out  the next precious DVD installment, I noticed something I had not ( Read more... )

Today work finally slowed down enough that I could take a moment to duck my head above the water.

And lo, I found this interesting thing:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1996553.ece

Getting out of bed this morning now suddenly seems to have been worthwhile.

We need volunteers in a number of areas but mostly during the daytime events on both Saturday & Sunday July 28th & 29th.   Here are the areas we need help with:

Day Event Times:        Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m
                                        Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Evening shows:  Not as many volunteers needed but we’ll ( Read more... )

There's a brass band marching down the Congress Bridge outside my office building. It's supposed to all be part of a Pre-Juneteenth Celebration. I can hear the drums through the glass ( Read more... )

Last night was fun. I had dinner with 
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Some nights the architecture of my dreams turns a bizarre corner.  I'm not always sure what my unconscious is hinting at. Last night, some of the particular images in my dream were so evocative and different from what I normally would dream of, that it sends me back to try and capture and understand that particular synaptic moment. There are a few ( Read more... )