20030403

I’ve been offered semi-solicited advice to tone down the baseball play-by-play. Well, crud. I quite enjoyed writing that post. After the game Monday I went home, lit the fire, checked my e-mail, remembered that I was supposed to see Chicago with Jimmy and a friend of his (if you’ll recall, I had met Jimmy and [...] [...]

20030327

Tra-la, it’s spring. I confirmed it this morning when, on my way to work with the windows down, I saw the blooming magnolias and dogwoods, heard the birds singing, and smelled the brewery. (Mmmm, nothing like the pungent aroma of hops and barley malt to make me nostalgic.) Work was frantic, but I was fueled [...] [...]

20030325

Last night’s yoga class got cancelled – instructor had a sick kid and couldn’t find a last-minute replacement. So I came back home and we grilled the kebabs. I managed to stay asleep last night and not wake up until the hail started at 7 this morning (at which time I bolted mostly upright and [...] [...]

20030322

Thank God for Fridays, eh? Well, I finally got caught up with the stuff from last Friday, and managed to make headway on the stuff that had been accumulating over the past week. My users weren’t exactly helping, though – I had to deal with 2 problem calls in which the affected item was switched [...] [...]

20030320

Part blogslack, part technical difficulties, part writer’s block, part other priorities. Take your pick of my excuses, but save the bludgeoning for later – I have a bit of catching up to do. Saturday – parade. Gorgeous day, lots of green-clad drunks (I was green-clad and sober, thanks), lots of thinking about the parallel origins [...] [...]