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Category Archives: Personal

Journaling, photos, letters home, and other little mementos to remember me by.

quiet & stuff

by Rob Friesel

Except for a couple dreams and lame quicky link-out posts, it’s been pretty quiet around here lately.  Yes, it’s true.  All sorts of hectic-ness have kept the posts to a minimum.  W/o giving away too much, this has been both good and bad.  Now to make up for it:  a series of short posts…

teh near-death

by Rob Friesel

Relief is realizing that despite having run over what appeared to be a mattress on my drive home, I am (in fact) still alive.  The sad (??) irony is that I probably would have avoided the drama all together had I been riding the ass of the truck in front of me.  Then maybe the […]

home stretch?

by Rob Friesel

At just under 300 pages, I keep asking myself: “How much longer until I finish out the rough draft of this damnable novel?”  I’m convinced that every would-be novelist hits this point sooner or later.  Especially if s/he is working a full time job to pick up what non-publication leaves behind. I’m convinced that it’s […]

43 Folders

by Rob Friesel

Updating the Blacklist to include Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders blog. I’ve been an occassional visitor over there but this series on “Modest Changes and Fresh Starts” has me intrigued and smiling and feeling just generally pretty good. Check it out: Fresh Start: Replace One Project Modest Change: Learning the Qualified “Yes” Modest Change: Cancel Something […]

upgraded

by Rob Friesel

Following the 31-Dec announcement, I made the appropriate back-ups yesterday and followed the instructions to upgrade my WordPress installation to 2.0. Installation went smoothly – – basically a simple copy/paste job. Highlights? Admin section is totally revamped and much better; vastly improved editor (i.e., consolidated “basic” and “advanced” posting, more intuitive WYSIWYG functionality). Bummers? WYSIWYG […]

Happy Nude Year

by Rob Friesel

To one and all: HAPPY NUDE YEAR! ‘Cuz it’s coming. I’ll avoid the top 10 lists and retrospectives for now and instead leave folks with the one elixer to get us through it: 2 oz. vodka 1 oz. Chambord 1 oz. pineapple juice a single raspberry Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Strain into […]