Category Archives: See, I do have a life!

Jack points me to this ESPN.com article about how to get away with reading the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue without getting your wife or girlfriend mad at you. Well, I have an even better way: Find a wife or girlfriend … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Awhile back, Scott suggested I add a bio of some kind to this page. Well, in honor of my birthday, this post is it. If you’re curious about some possibly interesting but mostly obscure facts about me, then please click … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today is my 37th birthday. I’m exactly the same age as Justine Bateman and exactly one day older than Cindy Crawford. Probably the most famous person to share a birthday with me is Copernicus, who would be 530 years old … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tiffany and I just had the following conversation: T: “I’m going to iron the shower curtain.” C: “For the love of God, why?” T: “I’ve run it through the washer and dryer, and it still has the folds from the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m still under the weather and thus low on blog energy, so this is as good a time as any to rerun My Favorite Valentine’s Day Story. Happy reading. Continue reading →

Yesterday, I played in the 2003 Houston Regional Bridge Tournament. One tradition of such tournaments is the Midnight Zip Knockouts, which is a team event that takes place after the evening session. As the name implies, it’s intended to be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Nothing like putting in a 15-hour day at the job on a Saturday, especially after having been there till 1:30 AM on Friday. Yes, I was affected by the latest Internet worm. No, it wasn’t my job to fix it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You know how it’s supposed to be calm and quiet at the office during the holiday weeks? People are on vacation, no one’s really thinking about work, not much gets done, etc etc etc? Well, bugger that. I’m up to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Went to Rudyard’s last night to see the Asylum Street Spankers. As always, it was a great show, and it’s nice to be able to see them do two full sets, something which they don’t do at the Mucky Duck … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Spent the afternoon at the Civil Court building downtown thanks to a jury summons. The real secret to not getting empanelled in Harris County is to draw a high number when you’re sent off to a courtroom for voir dire. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m back from Florida, where I attended a friend’s wedding. Wish I could have brought Tampa’s warm and sunny weather with me – it’s cold and rainy here in Houston. Of course, I’m talking cold for Houston – it’s 57 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m off to Florida for a wedding. Back Monday. Have a great weekend! Continue reading →

My mother informed me tonight that our old hometown paper, the Staten Island Advance, published an obituary for my grandmother which includes a couple of paragraphs from my own tribute. Apparently, my dad got in touch with a writer at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My maternal grandmother passed away last night. She was 85 years old. It’s amazing that she’d lived that long; she’d survived lung cancer (she was a nonsmoker) that cost her part of a lung over two decades ago, and she’d … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Got back from California yesterday afternoon, in time to do the week’s laundry. Had a bit of jet lag, which only ever seems to affect me on the trip home regardless of which direction I’m travelling, but eventually got to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just got out of my last MEC session. T and I will hang out today, and tomorrow we’re off to Disneyland. I’m off the air until I return to Houston. See you Monday! Continue reading →

Only managed to sit in on two lectures, both in the morning, yesterday. I finally spent some time in the vendor area and had my suspicion confirmed that there were far fewer freebies out for grabs than in prior years. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Party time last night – HP (among others) sponsored a food-drink-and-playathon at the ESPN Zone, where I’d met some of the local folks on Monday. The difference was no Monday Night Football crowd to deal with, and all of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So far the strangest thing I’ve seen at MEC this year is at my hotel, the Hilton Anaheim. For reasons that are unclear to me, there is always at least one uniformed hotel staffer whose job it is to hold … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Had a great time last night with Ann, Kevin, and Brian. We hung out and talked about a zillion things until the ESPN Zone restaurant in Downtown Disney finally threw us out at midnight. Thanks for making this traveller feel … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m off to Anaheim for a week. I’ll be attending MEC 2002, so I’ll have access to computers and the ability to post, but don’t expect too much this week. Tiffany’s coming out later in the week – Disneyland, here … Continue reading → Continue reading →

To Jish, who hung out with us Houston bloggers on Thursday night. Jish travels a lot for work, and when he does, he looks for a blogger group in whatever city he’s visiting and tries to plan a get-together. He … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You take your fame where you can get it, I always say. (In case you can’t tell, that’s me on the far left. Mikey is in the foreground. Good thing I never planned on a career in politics.) Continue reading →

I’ll be out of town from this afternoon through Sunday, so no bloggage until I return. Have a great weekend. Continue reading →

Today Tiffany came back from the Home Depot Expo Center with a bagful of drawer pulls and knobs for the kitchen. Apparently, the ones we have are gold colored, which is all wrong. The ones she bought and is now … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So I got a haircut over the weekend. You’d think this would be a pretty unremarkable event. I would too, except for the fact that just about all of my coworkers have in fact remarked on it, some of them … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Checking the referral log is always fun. Seeing new links in the referral log is even more fun, even if they’re apparently random links that couldn’t actually be referring to you. Once in awhile you come across a link in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Matt and Brad and Patrick write about Martin Amis’ book Koba the Dread and in doing so meander off into topics such as who was worse, Hitler or Stalin, and the usefulness of each as a rhetorical club with which … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tonight was National Night Out, an event created in the 80s as a means of fighting crime by getting neighbors to know each other as well as their local patrol officers. Our neighborhood loves a party, so NNO is always … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My mother-in-law Sharon is one of the world’s greatest shoppers. Drop her blindfolded into an alien department store, and she’ll not only find a bargain, she’ll get the salesperson to sweeten the deal. If there is a genetic disposition for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I promised yesterday that I’d write about some of the more interesting things I’ve seen on the job. Sit back and relax as I tell you about the Horny Employee and the Network Printer. About a year and a half … Continue reading → Continue reading →

TTLB and Chad Orzel have talked about a desire to see more diversity in blogging; more stuff about what people do and less armchair punditry. I find that I’m slowing down a bit on general purpose punditry these days. There’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today was Take Our Children To Work Day here at the office. Last year’s event was so well-received that over 250 kids signed up to come in today at three different locations. I was roped into volunteering to work for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tiffany and I spent a few hours today as the guests of Spec’s Liquor Warehouse at the Texas Package Store Association (TPSA) convention at the Westin Galleria hotel. This article from the 2000 TPSA shindig should give you some idea … Continue reading → Continue reading →