Oh. I love this. “Anyway, back to work. I have characters to kill and deadlines to beat.” — John Rickards (crime novelist) Yea. It’s official. This guy is now on my list of “read every day” blogs… Thank you, Matt Cheney.
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I’ve been so caught up in Chicago life, gory Iraq headlines, and the media circus of elections and doublespeak, that it came as a surprise to hear from my buddy Jeff in Fairbanks that Alaska has apparently been burning all summer: As of August 6, a total of 5,566,358 acres have burned in the United
Finished my Tuesday prep time for the week in a reasonable amount of time tonight (laundry, switching over daily items from regular bag to workout bag, packing bag for martial arts class, cooking dinner, prepping lunch for tomorrow, etc). Sitting back now, relaxing, wishing I had a beer, and infinitely enjoying watching another writer scream
I’m sitting in a meeting with Blaine and Yellow*, who are basically the upper management guys I’ve supported the last few months. We’re trying to put together a golf outing for some clients, and Yellow says, “Have you seen those Norweigans in the Olympics? The rowers? The women are all six feet tall and blond!”
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As I’m sure I’ve mentioned somewhere, I’m a project support manager (read: Glorified Secretary) for a telecommunications firm (we build, design, and upgrade cell phone towers). My boss recently told me to start in on some research for the WiMax 802.16 frequency band. WiMax is basically super Wifi. It allows for faster data transmission (up
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Happy Friday the 13th. Sorry. I just had to say that. So, the higher courts have annulled all those Evil Gay Marriages performed in San Francisco earlier this year (cause we all know how Dangerous those Little Old Ladies are. Frickin’ Terrorists). The closer it gets to election time, the more exhausted I’m getting with
It’s been a busy week. My buddy and roomie, Jenn, has been in New Orleans all week doing a big social psych conference. I’ve spent much of my time being delayed due to all the filming going on downtown for the new Batman movie. I got to sit on a train for fifteen minutes while
“No, I don’t have prom pictures, but I have pictures of me on the Great Wall of China.” – Mary Lou Retton (Olympic gold-winning gymnast) I’ll be posting less this week – doing some heavy rewriting on several projects. Ciao.
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I WANT TO BUY THIS PROPERTY…. This is why I go to work everyday.
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Coming back to the US after a year and a half in South Africa, I made a startling discovery: There really was a Starbucks on every corner. I should have been tipped off when I came back to the parentals’ abode for the holidays in Dec `03 to find my small, sleepy home town had