The gang I love
My friend and long time musical partner Rich had a big 40th birthday bash at his house yesterday. Lots of people brought their families. Rich had made a heck of a stage in his backyard complete with luau decorations and lighting. I brought PA, and got there early to set …
Celebrating another birthday for the one you love, including: Giving a well-chosen gift or two (or more). Fresh, locally-grown mango, cantaloupe, and strawberries in a lovely birthday fruit salad. Chinese take-out by request. Guinness chocolate cake, courtesy of Nigella Lawson. Hearing the kids sing “Happy Birthday,” quavering and off-key, even …
As a late entrant into the PC world, my first “real” system at home was a Dell Pentium Pro 200MHz, at the time a top of the line monster that set me back about $3K. It was a great system, though, and I had my first dual-boot system on it, …
All in all, the last two weeks have been tremendously busy for me, and I’m looking forward to getting a little free time next weekend… Travel Business meeting in Seattle all last week. Terrible travel day on the way out, with flight delay after flight delay. I hate traveling from …
Film Eleya and I have been wanting to go see Grindhouse, but our weekends are generally getting pretty booked up at this point. So I figured, what better way could there be to get some quality time than to call up da Moms and get her to sit the kids? …
Things accomplished: Car brakes, fixed. Frustration at apparent Emacs bug, achieved. Technical book review, caught up. Suggestion for DocBook ? PDF, made. ATK bug masquerading as Emacs bug, found. Fedora LiveCD for friend, delivered. Family outing to pizza joint to celebrate daughter’s reading achievements, completed. Freezer door insert, replaced. Work …
We’re the only ones left and we’re flat on our backsTaking the rest of the day off… Yes, it’s a wonderful day to get some work done at home. I got up at a pretty reasonable time, exercised, then picked up some coffee (thank you O SuperWife!), got my email …
Kevin Smith and I are a lot alike: both thirty-seven-year-old fathers of small children, and who love movies, pizza, beer, DVDs, and basically all things sedentary. Each of us has a family history of diabetes and yet, inexplicably, we’ve both managed to avoid facing the awful truth that we’re killing …
Today was weirdly bifurcated between hacking and sightseeing. Morning and late night I spent working on Luke Macken’s irssi-notify script, which Thorsten wrote about earlier today. At Luke’s suggestion, I put a quick project page up at Google Code. Hopefully folks will feel free to make (reasonable) suggestions for improvements. …
We finished out 2006 with a wonderful weekend stay at a beautiful, enormous lakefront rental house, with two other families who have been good friends of ours for many a year. Unfortunately, we partied a little too hard the night before New Year’s Eve, so when the big night came …