The Lost Days
July 28, 2003
You might forgive me for not posting during the week before my vacation. After all, it takes a certain amount of effort to package everything for a two-week absence. Projects at work have to have their spec’s finished, the people who are covering for you have to be briefed, and the thousand shortcuts and delinquencies which are acceptable when you’re...
You might forgive me for not posting during the week before my vacation. After all, it takes a certain amount of effort to package everything for a two-week absence. Projects at work have to have their spec’s finished, the people who are covering for you have to be briefed, and the thousand shortcuts and delinquencies which are acceptable when you’re...
Not-Quite-Fascinating
July 05, 2003
I’ve discovered that my commitment to engaging in conversation anyone who talks to me on the bus has its limits. It turns out that I am only really interested in talking to normal, smart, and interesting strangers or mentally ill, insane, have-met-Santa Clause crazy people. That turns out to leave a broad band of normal and near-normal individuals that I...
I’ve discovered that my commitment to engaging in conversation anyone who talks to me on the bus has its limits. It turns out that I am only really interested in talking to normal, smart, and interesting strangers or mentally ill, insane, have-met-Santa Clause crazy people. That turns out to leave a broad band of normal and near-normal individuals that I...
Swinging
July 01, 2003
There has been a lot of stumping around my house for a hammock. So the thought was in my head. But hammocks were just too expensive – who wants to spend two hundred and fifty bucks in Seattle to lie out in the sun for the three days the sun actually shines? The payback just is not there. After a...
There has been a lot of stumping around my house for a hammock. So the thought was in my head. But hammocks were just too expensive – who wants to spend two hundred and fifty bucks in Seattle to lie out in the sun for the three days the sun actually shines? The payback just is not there. After a...