Yesterday I made my semiannual trip to the Shopping Mall. It often takes me 6 months to prepare for the trip. The wardrobe is especially critical since there is a fine balance between being "too unstlyish to shop here" and being "stylish enough to possibly spend a couple hundred here". Both cases tend to grab unwanted attention from the sales ( Read more... )

I tried an experiment at work yesterday. Since it was nice weather I rode the motorcycle. It was kind of cold in the morning (lower 60s) and probably reached about 80 in the afternoon ( Read more... )

For a couple years now I have been getting together with a group of friends from work to play music. It all started when C decided to learn guitar. I played piano, C played guitar, and V sang. We weren't amazing but overall it sounded pretty good. As time went on, others joined the group for some impromptu music making ( Read more... )

Today I went to the wedding of one of my closer friends from grade school (and someone who is on Live Journal, of all things!). The wedding was nice and the reception was fun and everything went well. So I'm going to talk about the emotional/mental impact that I felt and keep things a little bit away from tangibility ( Read more... )

I was talking with a friend at work, and he told me the story of his father's first motorcycle. Back in the 1970s, his father bought a motorcycle, learned how to ride, and then rode out to California from Ohio. He rode around California for a while, and then rode back to Ohio. When he returned, he sold the bike because he was "satisfied ( Read more... )

I was reminded this weekend that there is age-dependence for the socially acceptable reaction to finding out someone is pregnant ( Read more... )

I took the motorcycle out for a ride this afternoon. The weather was in the low 50s, but it was sunny and not too freezing to ride around a little bit ( Read more... )

It took me the better part of the last 2 years to realize a major difference between the working world and college. I always imagined that college would make me do pointless stuff, like writing essays that will never be read and various other busy work that has no real impact on making peoples' lives better. For the most part, this was true and I ( Read more... )

Over the past couple of years I've been trying to spend more time hanging out with people from work. Some weeks I have more success than others, depending on what else is going on in life. The majority of these people work in other areas and not with me directly. And there seems to be one common theme that I can't explain: camping ( Read more... )

For the past few months, ever since the cold began, my car has been showing a low coolant temperature. It hasn't fired off any "service engine soon" lights or anything, but it has taken a while to warm up in the mornings (sometimes not at all) and the temperature overall stays low ( Read more... )