A self-professed miser and amateur budgeteer, I’ve been hearing rumors of Mint.com‘s awesomeness for quite some time now. A long-time Quicken user, I’ve been a bit reluctant to try it out – once I’ve gotten into the groove of a particular apparatus or routine, I’m loathe to break from it 1. But Quicken has left […]
For my regular readers 1 that may be wondering why I haven’t been posting lately 2, a brief update: Two big factors keeping me away from F_D: (1) no Internets at home still 3 and (2) some super-intense work projects have me tapped out. That said, please enjoy a picture of H. riding a dinosaur: […]
April through June: gone as quick as they came. Shall we check in on the goals I set for myself? I think we shall. Write at least three hours per week. To echo my sentiments from last quarter: not a banner year. I have hardly scratched out a few incoherent words let alone incoherent sentences. […]
A day late here but what the hell… Happy birthday, Holden. Above? That’s a mosaic of his one-per-day portraits for the first year. It begins June 22, 2008 and goes through June 22, 2009. We managed to only miss one day through the whole mess, too.
A video interview with my Granddad, an Air Force F-4 pilot during the Vietnam War, from Timeless Voices of Aviation: Link direct to the video
January through March, come and gone. Where did I land for the goals I’d set for myself for 2009? Well, it’s been kind of a mixed bag. But mostly a bag with a big hole in the bottom. Write at least three hours per week. This is not going to be a banner year for […]
Though perhaps a bit early for my quarterly reflection on those personal goals, I feel like getting it off my chest: things are not moving along at last year’s speedy clip. I’ve scarcely written 1, I’m only on book #3 for the year, and progress on Ortho is slow at best – many fits and […]
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Today, our historic election becomes our historic inauguration. Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. He gave a well-tempered speech, and one that spoke deeply to A. and myself 1, one that stirred more than a few emotions and (hopefully) more than a few into action. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews […]