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Pictures O’ the Day!

A man and his dog, his son, and a good book about webpage design. Who could ask for anything more? I made this picture just so I could use this caption:Jack and the “Beanstalk”.This is one of about...

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Jack just gave me the best first Father’s Day present ever!

He slept through the night for the first time ever last night! From 10:30pm to 5:30am! Thank you, Jack!

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I’m in Hanover, Pennsylvania.

My boss told me at 5:00pm on Friday that I would be going on a business trip this week. So here I am, writing from a hotel room not even a day’s march from Gettysburg. I’ll be attending meetings at one...

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I’ve been tagged! — Book Meme

Not only has TulipGirl flattered me by tagging me for one of them “meme” things, but she’s even said it could be interesting. This is my first meme tag, so I hope I don’t disappoint: One book that...

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Variations on a Lunch Hour.

Running Errands: Meeting a contractor at the house, A dentist or doctor appointment, or dropping something off for repair somewhere in town. About once every one or two months. Out to lunch: Either...

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This is so freakin’ AWESOME!!

I’m at the Apple store in Chicago! I’m in the Windy City on a business trip, and I took a pilgrimage into downtown riding a bus, and then the “L” (for the first time!). I came here intending to buy a...

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Happy Belated Fathers Day!

Rachel and Jack gave me a Father’s Day present today. Jack supplied the homemade wrapping paper, and Rachel supplied what was inside: an iPod Nano!

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(The geek is in, too)

Per grandmotherly request, the time is now shown on each post. I was pleasantly surprised that I found the WordPress syntax to make that change, and I was pleasantly unsurprised that it was so easy to...

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We are doing great.

Rachel is holding Nora and seeing if she will latch on. We are all well, as you can see.

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A bad day.

This was my first day back to work after Nora was born. I went to an associate’s desk to catch up, and he asked me if I had heard about the All Hands meeting that was held the other day. Another one?...

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A bad day, reversed.

Well, like I said, I had a pretty bad day last week. Strangely enough, the bad day was providentially reversed today: Last week, we found out that our company was cutting our pay NAFTA-wide by 5% as a...

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Hangin’ with the Grands.

(Taken with Grandpa’s cellphone.)

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A rising flood lifts all boats … out of reach.

Job search heartbreak of the day: A recruiter called me today… “I’ve got good news and horrible news… The good news is that the company that interviewed you by phone earlier this week liked you and...

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I think I have been on Facebook or something.

You may see what I have posted there right here, I think. I captured it as a Web Archive file to bring my share of it out from behind the login screen. Here’s hoping that works.

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Well, at least I know it’s not me.

A couple months ago, I got a first interview with an aviation hydraulics company, but didn’t get a second interview because of a hiring freeze. Today, I found out that I won’t even get a first...

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This Facebook thing will give out someday…

…in the meantime, here’s the latest archive page.

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I did it for the good of my son, but it was painful.

I poured all the bags and drawers of my legos, sorted meticulously by color and shape years ago and left in the closet, all into one big plastic box for Jack. It will help spark some creativity...

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Testing another Face-Book-Word-Press-Plug-In…

…six words I would have never thought belonged consecutively in a sentence five years ago.

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On the Verge…

…of a recursive blog post. This is about the latest Facebook archive page posted here, and also about testing to see if I can automatically post to Facebook by just writing on this blog. Confused yet?

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A spark of hope that just won’t die!

No matter how dark it seems, and no matter how I fearfully try to quench it, hard as a diamond and bright as a flash of lightning, my spark of hope lives on. Here’s the latest Facebook archive.

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In a holding pattern.

Got away for a little while, but now I feel like I’m in a holding pattern. Pacing my cage back and forth. Nothing changes, and that is both good and bad. Here is this month’s Facebook archive.

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At a fork in the road.

Here I stand, Looking for a sign. Ready, even eager to go anyside of anywhere. I will not wait long where this road divides, but I will walk forward when the time is right. I can do no other. This...

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Pressing.

What’s behind is forgotten.    What’s ahead is eagerly awaiting.       This is a still point, between          the here and the now.       No Sabbath Year, this.    The Jubilee is come. It’s a whole...

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A Corner of Turning.

The line I followed has fallen from my side.           When I find it again, the horizon,                     still half-hidden, is yet completely new.                    I want to learn these...

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Suspension.

Each hand is on a ring. Each ring is at the end of a chain. Stretched, I will let go of one. Meanwhile, I must say: the view up here is spectacular. February’s overdue Facebook archive is here.

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