Relief Is Like A Drug

tom | March 31, 2004

I’ve got Fox News on again in the background while I work and I’m just now hearing that the young college student (Audrey Seiler) from WI has been found alive after having been missing for 4 days. I’m watching this and getting a relaxing, soothing feeling as the wrost case scenario has been removed [...]

The thing about kids

tom | March 30, 2004

For the veterans out there, this is nothing new and you might even give me a “no shit Sherlock” response. But as I go through my albums I begin to realize just how fast time goes by. In the early days, with my first child, every day seemed like a year; I had [...]

Condoleeza Rice Thing

tom | March 30, 2004

Do I want to know what she knew? Yes. Did the Whitehouse do the right thing by making her available? I don’t think so. The pressures of the media sometimes make folks make the wrong decisions (in my view) and I wish they hadn’t done so. My personal inkling to know [...]

What rights can you lose?

tom | March 30, 2004

I wonder what level of instruction you are willing to take from your governemnt. In other words, what sorts of things should your government be able to tell you what is and is not acceptable? In my view, the number of “things” should be very small — ethical standards like murder, stealing [...]

I’ve always wanted a Porsche

tom | March 30, 2004

But this one in particular would be oh so sweet. It seems that AOL siezed the Porsche as part of its anti-spam crackdown and is going to give it away to one lucky AOL user. The feeling of driving that particular vehicle, knowing that a spammer got caught and lost it, would be [...]

Note to self: Check rzip

tom | March 29, 2004

Thanks to Jeremy for pointing this out — I need to check out rzip for potentially improved compression on the 1gig or so of data we have to suck down and store daily.

New Pics in March 2004 Album

tom | March 28, 2004

Check it here.

Bouncer Ride

tom | March 28, 2004

Emma, Megan and Abigail riding Hillary, as if the bouncer alone wasn’t enough.

Hillary and Ben

tom | March 28, 2004

Katie and Eve

tom | March 28, 2004

Little Evie took a minute to get in the bouncer but she sure had a good time once she figured it would not swallow her up. Of course, it helps when Mom assists.