fighting the lack of good ideas
My wife and I are participating as judges in the state finals for the Kentucky 4-H presentations at UK’s campus Saturday. We’ve both gotten tagged to judge speeches. This’ll be my first time ever involved with 4-H, whereas my wife has been doing something with them every year for about 15 years 🙂
A couple weeks ago, my wife and I flew up to NJ for my family reunion (held near South Bound Brook every last Saturday in June). I’ve missed the last few due to other things getting in the way (like living in Singapore and getting married ;)) – so it was great to be able…
Earlier this week my wife decided to surprise me with a dinner she thought-of more-or-less on-the-spot. We are both big fans of The Melting Pot. Tuesday she popped out to Kroger and bought a small package of potatoes, some various broths, and an absolutely AMAZING meat rub spice mix. Also she found some strawberries (on sale –…
As with many others, I suppose, I have various email address come and go: perhaps via job changes, or graduating/changing schools, deciding to sell a domain, or any of a host of other reasons. There’s a problem with that, though: when those changes happen, sometimes access to other digital resources becomes…difficult. For example, I have…
Sunday marked the my first anniversary with my lovely wife, Christina. We spent the last week in Virginia, utilizing the one-year passes we bought on our honeymoon 🙂 Our flights into Norfolk were smooth, and since it was so nice, we just decided to head straight to the beach from the airport. The weather was…
I have been fortunate to both know and know of many folks in the US military over the past 70 years. In approximate historical order, thank you for your service: Roger M Ralph M Ken C Joe M Ken C Warren M EJ N June N (C) Donald C Jeremy F Joe D Ben W…
This past Saturday, I gave a presentation/talk on Haiku for the BGLUG in Lexington KY. For those unfamiliar with Haiku, it is an open-source reimplementation of my favorite OS of all time, BeOS. Instead of having a formal slide deck for the event (as initially planned), I kept it informal with an oral history of…