The gang I love
My hell week at work ended on Thursday night, but I spent pretty much the whole day Friday with a couple of my friends who were attending. We went sightseeing down the Civil War Trails, visiting the battlefields of Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Courthouse, with a side trip to downtown …
I’m glad Chris agrees with me about not only George Lucas, but Ben Folds and my all-time favorites Del Amitri. The Dels bottomed out sales-wise with their adventurous and occasionally brilliant electronica-laced Can You Do Me Good?, and then unceremoniously broke up with a mid-2002 announcement from lead singer Justin …
Among the other thoughtful gifts I received, Eleya bought me a small amount of stock in Red Hat. Although the stock price has dropped somewhat from last year, most of the analysts rate it at hold or buy, and the outlook over the last six months has been pretty positive. …
Yesterday we had a nice cookout party, with many family and friends in attendance. My good friend and drummer Rich (who turned 38 the day before) and his family came, as well as our friends Scott and Jenny and son Jack, Ellen, and Amy and Cameron. We grilled steaks, bratwurst, …
…although we are missing a limb or two. Hopefully the blog will be back to full strength, or something resembling same, shortly. Then Chris can take down his “In Memoriam” sign. ?
Dave, I hadn’t checked on your blog in a while and this post caught my eye. I’m glad your PT is progressing and that you are out of Das Boot. (Clever eyes will find more than one stupid joke in the last sentence.) I have to disagree with you, though, …
On Saturday, we met up with my dad and stepmother, and took the kids to the National Zoo. It was my first trip there in over 25 years, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The last zoological exhibit I visited was the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 1999. Evie wasn’t sure she …
I did a huge amount of work this weekend for the Docs Project: Outlined the next-gen Documentation Guide; Outlined part of a new hands-on example tutorial section; Read oodles of archived messages and bugs in Bugzilla to gather dangling inputs for the Guide and our other process docs; and Even …