tom | August 30, 2006
I wrote a rather large rant on something that pissed me off today but as I was getting ready to publish it I realized (again) that I tend to write about things I’m upset about and rarely about the nice things that occur every day. With some trepidation I nuked my 20 paragraphs of [...]
tom | August 29, 2006
I remember when Abigail was born and how the first couple of days were only scary in that I didn’t want to be the cause of her demise. It wasn’t until the 3rd day that I got a very big emotional whack when I realized that I wasn’t just caring for this little life [...]
tom | August 25, 2006
Two brief notes to cover here. First, I was joking with Kerri when she offered me an egg for breakfast and said, “no thanks, I only eat fresh eggs… we need to get some chickens”. She immediately fired back by indicating that we already had a 155 pound chicken (read: me). Rather [...]
tom | August 21, 2006
I’d like to only accept mail “From:” or “To:” certain addresses and bounce/trash everything else. I use Gmail strictly for reading mailing lists and it is a great interface for such a thing. I could do this with an account using Thunderbird and my own domain but I just love the searching [...]
tom | August 21, 2006
When I’m talking with my team or my customers I tend to ask a lot of questions. Sometimes I must come across as challenging a programmer’s abilities or plain annoying to a customer but there is a method to my madness. It has never been a conscious or planned tactic of mine but [...]
tom | August 14, 2006
A bunch of neighbors and friends went down to San Diego on Saturday to see the pre-season Charger-Packer football game. I haven’t been to a professional football game since the Rams were in Los Angeles.
In attendance were neighbors Matt, Darin and Tim with friends Alex, Marry (Alex’s aunt and die-hard Packer fan), Dave, Robert, [...]
tom | August 8, 2006
One of the things I love most about children is their brutal honesty. Well, I really love it when I catch them observing someone else and I enjoy it less when I’m the target but it is still a good thing most of the time. Things like, “You’re too big for that shirt” [...]
tom | August 7, 2006
Specifically, catch the show on Oct. 2nd at 10pm on E!. Although he’s a surgical tech by trade his life is more about art and you can grab a sampling of his paintings on his web site: edoranart.com. Check it out! If you have a lot of money for me to borrow, [...]
tom | August 5, 2006
Darin and some other neighbors went ocean fishing last week and they all “limited out” meaning, they had plenty of fish to bring home. Matt cooked up a bunch of it last week but the neighbors got together with what was left and put on a really nice dinner.
I ended up having white sea [...]
tom | August 1, 2006
A beautiful young, female Boxer and a subtle, older male Poodle-ish dog came into our lives today. I saw them trotting down the street while I was on a phone call and would have liked to grab them but could not get away. A few hours later a woman was driving around, asking [...]
