Good thing I ran into you; otherwise in a few more days you'd be here all alone ( Read more... )

I realized recently it's been a while since I did anything with this, mainly because I haven't had any recent events I thought needed to go up here. Life continues in much the same fashion as the previous many-many months ( Read more... )

For the past few weeks I've been MSN'ing with a woman named Kate who lives in Virginia; we met by chance a while ago and have become good online friends. She's younger than me by a few years, attending a liberal arts/industrial design school (her parents are paying for it). She's making real plans to visit me over New Years (nothing hinky; we both ( Read more... )

Not. It dropped some trees, flooded some roads way south of where I live, and something went KABANG at 2:30 am and woke me up, but not much more than that and certainly not enough to close my office for the day (I could really use a freebie day off right around here) In fact, when I left home this morning (earlier than usual to drop my car off for ( Read more... )

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I'm not the only one contemplating Time ( Read more... )

That is, the sense one often gets that Time is passing more quickly as one ages ( Read more... )

Well, last week my closest colleague, the person who contacted me last spring about this job, left the company last week. She made her official announcement in Friday’s meeting (there was only 1 person who didn’t know already) and then packed up the last of her personal stuff (she’d been moving it out little-by-little for a couple weeks ( Read more... )

In my Outlook email folders I have a whole folder of personal messages, most of which have no meaning any more (e.g. a message from a weekend in March that my sister was out of town asking me to check up on the house). In the past I would infrequently sort through these personal tidbits and delete some of the worst offenders ( Read more... )

That they think we can sell something we can't sell to people in our own area code, to people 1000 miles away ( Read more... )