First of all, I remain intoxicated. More on that in a bit ( Read more... )

My grandfather always seemed so conservative. He was so Italian Catholic, so moralistic in my eyes ( Read more... )

We spent some time at Crane beach yesterday. What incredible New England summer weather we've had the past few days. After the string of heat waves in July, it was very nice to end the month with such a lovely day ( Read more... )

To close a deal this past quarter, I pimped out my sales engineer for a week to install the software and get the customer running with it. He's in there this week. This customer is generally terrific to work with. Were it not for the drive down there, I'd invent excuses to go see them ( Read more... )

Every dad (and probably mom) wants his kids to share something of him. Don't know if it's to have something more authoritative to say or to validate his own personality ( Read more... )

I'm starting to realize that there are some flicks that I always want to watch. I realize this because when I notice them on tv, I'll usually get distracted and start watching them, often with protests to myself that it's only for a scene or two. Then I watch it to the end ( Read more... )

I could write quite a bit about this one and maybe someday I'll write something much longer ( Read more... )

I got to experience something special the other day at the playground ( Read more... )

The second quarter (and first half) just finished up for us. This was one hell of an up and down half. I had an obscene amount of work for much of it, chasing after many valid opportunities. In the end, I wound up finishing at about 200% of my number ( Read more... )

It took the girls two plus hours to go to sleep tonight. This is becoming a pattern. Drives us nuts ( Read more... )