fighting the lack of good ideas
I just found out my aunt died sometime between Saturday night and this morning. She didn’t call-in to work to say she’d be out, so one of her coworkers checked on her – and she didn’t answer the phone, so my dad, her older brother, went to her apartment to find out what was wrong….
I travel for work. Because I fly hither and yon, I get to rent cars. Some of the time I get interesting ones. Mostly I get vehicles that drive, and get me from point A to point B and back again. In another life, I worked for Hertz in Latham NY. Working for Hertz was…
I found out today when I logged into my email that one of my former coworkers was involved in a crash yesterday. 19 year old Justin Crouse was drunk and rammed my friend Philip’s car when he ran a red light in Raleigh yesterday. Right now, Philip’s in ICU in Raleigh. His girlfriend, who was…
Today the Supreme Court of the United States struck down Washington DC’s handgun ban, by upholding the plain text of the Second Amendment to our Constitution stating that gun ownership is a personal right. CNN story: cnn.com/2008/US/06/26/scotus.guns. The full text of the decision: 07-290.pdf. Hopefully this will start a trend across all of our courts…
I hate not being home. I travel for a living now, performing site installations, upgrades, customizations, and on-site support for our customers. The travel’s a blast – see new places, try new food, drive different car. But not being home except weekends does kinda cut into one’s social activities. At this point, I wouldn’t trade…
I’m off to Sunnyvale CA for a week for some intensive, advanced product training for the software I install and handle on-site support for. Should be a long, tiring, fun week.
From 273 W 38th St to 279 Water St in Manhattan is a bit of a hike. The way I walked was about 5.4 miles. Yes, I walked. If I’d known better how to get there, I could have done it in 4.2 miles. But I didn’t, so I walked the long way. The only…