new Dekker book, Showdown, yesterday. I read novels very slow to try and absorb the characters and the message, as I think all novels have a message of some type. Especially Dekker novels. So much better, for me, than watching TV. It allows my mind to wander and escape, back to … [Read more...] about Started reading the
Nostalgia
I've been blogging since at least 2003, much longer if you consider the early days of computing. I've stopped and started many times, usually deleting everything. I found about 800 old posts from 2004 - 2007 that I imported for random memories. Those posts are under this category.
It was a long day
for 2 but she finally made it home around midnight, about 5 hours after she planned to be here. It was her first real experience with car trouble (dead battery) and she survived. Bruised, battered and torn, but survived.As for 1, she continues to recover (and to amaze). The … [Read more...] about It was a long day
Did a lot of stuff
today, some productive some not. Gotta recap them now or I'll forget. First, forgot if I mentioned my Amazon order came in or not. Got a couple more Brendan Manning books (author of Ragamuffin Gospel) in addition to an extra copy of RMG to give away. Not sure to whom I'm going … [Read more...] about Did a lot of stuff
I had some time
last night after church to play around with another Linux distro, PCLinuxOS. Very nice. Maybe even better than Mephis. Well, actually, it seemed better. Very fast graphics, I could play Dave Weiner's acoustic solo (that is my test standard, it has the latest Quicktime encoding … [Read more...] about I had some time
We had a very nice
evening out last night. The boss was in town and we took celebrated the 30th year of service for one of the employees. A total of 6 of us met up at Perry's Grill and it was fantastic. I'd forgotten how good an upscale restaurant could be. We stayed up too late (the bigjolly needs … [Read more...] about We had a very nice