fighting the lack of good ideas
Today is Valentine’s Day in the US (and, I presume, elsewhere). This is the first such day I have had with my wife (last year we were only engaged, so she was my fiancee, not my wife). And two years ago we had only just been matched on eHarmony. Yesterday in our Sunday School group,…
One of the [very] few novels I have ever reread is Without Remorse by Tom Clancy – and I’ve reread it several times: each time noticing something I hadn’t before, and each time reacting quite viscerally to how the book’s main character (I hesitate to call him a “hero”) goes about his desired objective. If…
I realized earlier this week that it’s been 19 years since I first started programming. Not my first exposure to computing, which was in about 1986 on my aunt’s Mac 512 .. but still a long time ago 🙂 My aunt gave me a Tandy 102 laptop that had a whole walloping 21446 bytes of…
Upon the recommendation of my friend Steven, I picked-up a cheap copy of Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Body. My first observation is that Tim Ferriss is not one to necessarily edit his speech patterns for writing. While not rife with them, there are a fair number of vulgarities throughout the book – all of which…
Jeopardy! has been a favorite of mine for years: it’s the reason I eat fast. I’ve tried-out a couple times in the past – once in person at Southpoint Mall in Durham NC and once online. Tonight I did again – so here’s hoping I did well enough 🙂
I hadn’t paid attention to all the things that have to be setup when you move in such a short period of time before: electric, gas, water, change of addresses… what a pain! But it’s worth it since we’ll have more privacy, more space, and less-close neighbors 🙂 I have the electric set to switch…
Though it’s not the ideal we have of owning our own home, my wife and I will be one step closer in a few days as we will be signing a lease on a rental home here in Lexington and moving out of the apartment complex we’ve been in since we got married. I think…