I would like to thank everyone who has either left a message for me here, via email, on my cell phone, on the various forums I frequent. Both I and my family appreciate your thoughts and condolences. It has been a very, very difficult 24 hours. From learning that my dad’s health was so fragile, […]

Even though I’m not really religious, I have no problem asking those of you that are to pray for my father. And for those of you that aren’t then I beg that you wish him well. I was at an interview today (that I nailed) and I got a phone call from my sister. I […]

To all my readers (yes, both of you)… I’m not dead. Scurvy, go to hell. In a nice way. My schedule is a mess. I will update this tonight with the events of this past weekend. However, here is the condensed version: – Las Vegas last Friday – Wedding in Vegas on Saturday – Checked […]

Buckle up, Buttercups. For the sake of brevity I’m even skipping some parts. This is going to be a long one… My weekend started out promising. I left North Carolina early, packed up the pooches and headed back home. The dogs and I had a grand old time in the truck. We screamed out country […]

Last night I sat in front of the television for the first time in a long time. I don’t know if I just hate American television or if I have a short attention span…look! A shiny nickel!! Well, I started flipping through the stations. I didn’t want to watch network tv because, to be honest, […]

Online Conversations I’ve Had Today: Me: Hehehe… Me: I’m trying to get Amy to bet me whether or not Heather Mills leg flies off while she’s spinning on Dancing with the Stars Wife: dude thats all over vegas Wife: she’s even been asked about it happening Me: If I were her I’d just loosen it […]

I was tempted to stay in bed all day today and just wait for it to pass and turn to Monday. I could have gotten away with it, too, had it not been for those two dogs of mine – Grumpy, Old Man & his sidekick Ugg Boot. The Grumpy, Old Man is my dog […]

If this were a television show or an anime, I suppose you could call this a clip show. Essentially, I’m too lazy to finish writing what I’m working on so I thought I’d share some of the nuggets that I’m listening to as I’m working. Supreme Beings of Leisure – Strange Love Addiction I loved […]

I pretty much missed lunch today. Come to think of it, I also missed breakfast. If you don’t count the 6 cups of coffee and 4 glasses of water that I drank then I had absolutely nothing for my first two meals of the day. My brain was getting a little fuzzy, too. I couldn’t […]

Here are several things that just completely piss me off. Sort of like the anti-Sound of Music thing. But with no music. And, unless you hum while you read this, no sound. Prime Time Game Shows It drives me bonkers the way ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ became a standard for many of the […]

I took the quiz at Comic Vine (http://www.comicvine.com). Sue Reed! Yay! In the movies, that would be that Alba chick. Meh. The power of invisibility and force feilds would be so cool. We could go to movies half price because she would sneak in! I could pick bar fights and not get punched! Oooh! I […]

I was hanging out at home last night searching for anything of redeeming quality to watch on television. After surfing around for a bit I happened to catch ESPN Classic’s airing of the boxing matches between Greg Haugen and Vinny Pazienza. Man. Now there’s some boxing. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any clips of those fights […]

Well, VD is around the corner. Yes, I meant Valentine’s Day and not Herpes. In honor of this pseudo-celebration brought upon us by retailers I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of my experiences with my lovely wife. When Creative Geeks Collide When Angela and I shared a home office in Northern […]

I went home to Northern Virginia this past weekend. It was quite the time. I met my oldest sister’s fiance and proceded to get rip roarin’ drunk. About 3 Corona’s, a San Miguel, 5 Johnny Walker Blue. on the rocks and, no kidding, 11 shots of Jose Cuervo Especial. I pity my wife sometimes. Oh, […]

I’ll be the first to admit it: my work environment is still iffy at best. I get along better with my clients and every other team except my own. It is a pretty sad existence when your ‘team’ doesn’t behave as a TEAM and really makes no effort to do so. In fact, it is […]

OW. Did you hear that? That was the sound of part of my brain melting. Dear God. I have had so, so, so many hopes for Jaime Pressly. Before I continue, let me say in all honesty that this wasn’t a supremely-super-horrible film. No, this is no Uwe Boll masterpiece. DOA is actually decent if […]

I decided to hop into Second Life from Linden Labs, a place where the motto is “Your World. Your Imagination.” It has been around for a number of years now and people have been flocking to it in droves. Here are a few statistics according to their website at the time of this post: Total […]

Well, here I am. This is me. You’ll be able to recognize me by the bulge on my hip. No, it isn’t some medical device it is my cell phone. Here are a few other tidbits about my life with this phone: * I sorta like surfing the web with this phone. The impressive thing […]

Christmas came and went this year. As many of you know, I spent it in North Carolina with my wife and dogs. The rest of our family stayed in Northern Virginia. Angela and I decided to go ahead and give our Christmas presents to each other early. Ok, I gave hers before Thanksgiving and she […]

So, the New Year has come. Angela has been here since just before Christmas and last night we went to Raleigh to celebrate New Year’s by going to a show called ‘Cirque Dreams’. It was, to say the least, interesting. We had seen several incantations of Cirque du Soleil. This was…uh…close. I’m used to hearing […]

Oy. Today was just one of those days that I’m glad it was the weekend and not a workday. If what happened to me today happened at work, I’d have to quit my job and move to yet ANOTHER state. We’ve all had those days where the world looks you square in the eyes and […]

I keep watching this LifeHacker post (click the ‘read more’ link below). I watch it and I keep asking myself as a web designer/developer “Who wouldn’t want that? Sweet Jiminy Christmas!”. What is it? The new Macs have the ability to run an application called Parallels with a new feature called ‘Coherence’. This allows you […]

A few interesting things happened this weekend and they all seem intertwined with one another. Let’s take things chronologically: WebLizard tells me that she and her husband will be in North Carolina this weekend. She also wonders if I’d like to go out to lunch with them. Yay! Familiar faces! We exchange cell phone numbers […]

I was recently on digg (username: puzzlehead) and I came across this piece about the CNet journalist James Kim. Looking at the path he took and wondering if leaving the car was the best decision at the time is hindsight at it’s worst. I feel so sorry for him and his family. The reports of […]

Home ownership. I’ve had a townhouse built for me before and that was about ten years ago or so. The experience wasn’t bad at all when I had it done. Then again, it may be my memories playing tricks on me. The house that we’re having built in North Carolina is a little different than […]

First things first: I was supposed to write my all new Origins of Thanksgiving Day story last week. And, truth be told, I started to do it. And then I actually read what I started writing. Afterwards, I punched myself in the crotch for writing it. You know how some things seem like a good […]

First things first – the following is a conversation between me and my wife via AIM.  Many of you who talk to me via instant messengers will quickly recognize that, yes, this is how I normally hold conversations online. In an event, this is the buildup for my Thanksgiving story that I’m sure will revolutionize […]