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I finished Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones over the weekend. I had picked it up at the Albuquerque airport on a bit of a whim — I was fresh out of reading material, and I recalled that Peter Jackson was going to film it after he got done with King Kong.
The first half of […]

Tuesday, 7/26:
Up early again to load up the car, say goodbye to parents, and hit the highway. Beautiful day, great tunes, good car conversation with Liz, amazing scenery…
Stopped in Cuba, New Mexico, to stretch and fill up; realized we were vastly ahead of schedule due to the higher-than-remembered speed limits. On a […]

Sunday, 7/24:
Slept in a bit. Read more of HPatHBP while Liz went out for a run. Delicious lunch at Jean Pierre’s with Josh, his dad, my folks, and Liz. Weather looked a bit off, so we put our hiking plans on hold. Liz napped while I finished Half-Blood Prince. Set […]

Saturday, 7/23:
Slept in a bit. Finished the Frank Herbert biography. Started Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Drove out to Holly’s place in the afternoon for the reunion BBQ; got a good bit of rain and lightning on the way out that threatened to make the event strictly indoors, but it cleared […]

Wednesday, 7/20:
5 AM cab to the airport. Had to detour to the office to pick up business cards — vitally important when going to one’s ten-year reunion. Uneventful plane trip to Dallas-Fort Worth; slept fitfully, read a little of the Frank Herbert bio that Dad gave me for Christmas. Noted with some […]

Google Earth (formerly Keyhole) is now free (for the base level of jaw-droppingly great service)!
You need Windows (so I’m out of luck until I get into the office tomorrow), but in the mean time, here’s a great first peek to whet all of our collective geek appetites. Google also provides some great samples for […]

Life seems to have once more obtained a state of “hey, that’s all right”-ness. Not superbly exciting, but a pleasantly groovy comfort level that seems quite enjoyable.
We enjoyed the lovely company of cynic51, butterandjelly, and Dave for “Sausage-Fest ‘04″ on Wednesday. The Jack Daniels and cheddar brats were a big, meaty world of […]

I must have been stressing a lot lately, because the last couple of weeks seem awfully irresponsible of me, from a converting-the-equity-of-my-labor-into-useless-economy-fueling-crap sort of perspective. I think I’ve also been in withdrawal ever since my favorite record store here closed… I need my fix, man!
Looking back over the past couple of weeks, the […]

Thanks again to supercarrot for the wacky fun meme time… I found this one to be shockingly accurate!

You’re Ireland!
Mystical and rain-soaked, you remain mysterious to many people, and this makes you intriguing.  You also like a good night at the pub, though many are just as worried that you will blow up […]

Once again, I’ve let everything else distract me from posting for a few days, and now nothing is quite as fresh as it would have been. Oh well, let’s play catch-up anyway!
Overall, things are good. Work is still really stressful as we prepare for Valentine’s Day, but a string of really good days […]