Sick of lots of junk mail, I filled out a form with the Direct Marketing Association, which should help cut it down somewhat. The funny part was the warning on the confirmation page – apparently I might be doing a disservice to the environment by stopping junk mail. What? Printing, mailing, opening, and recycling lots [...]
If you don’t read Scott Berkun’s blog, you should. Earlier this month he wrote a piece “Lessons from four independent years” about his experience as an independent speaker and writer. I have a few ideas percolating that eventually might convince me to try striking out on my own – it was enlightening to read Berkun’s [...]
This past weekend, I headed up to Whistler with my brother Brian and some friends for the last weekend of the Telus Festival. It wasn’t necessarily intended to be a dudes only trip, but like many ski trips, it ended up that way. Brian flew in on Wednesday night, and Meagan, Brian, and I went [...]
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of purchasing my house in Green Lake. When I first moved in, my infrequent attempts to cut the grass with a manual powered lawn mower were generally thwarted by the many ruts in the yard, making it hard to maintain contact with the ground, and, hence, torque to the blades. [...]
Following yesterday’s glorious sunshine, and mere seconds before the spring Seattle showers returned, I finally purchased some some outdoor dining furniture. Here it is, assembled, immediately testing the weather-resistant teak. I assembled it while Meagan studied intently for her concurrent exam tomorrow.
It’s been a good week. Went to two T-Birds playoff games – sadly they lost both and were eliminated in Tri-Cities last night. Don’t think I’ll be making it to games next year when the team moves to Kent, which is unfortunate – I’ve gone to a good number of T-Birds hockey games in Seattle [...]
One of my several motivations for starting this collection, similar to the rationale of many who write, was to better remember and reflect upon events past. I’ve discovered it’s a lot easier and more entertaining to do so when I’m reminiscing about a trip than when I’m writing about my week of doing performance reviews [...]
Every Saturday evening, my high school math teacher, Mr. Pierre, sends an email out to a large group of former students and others entitled “The Saturday Night Survey”. It started in the nineties as a survey of whether (and at what time) a small group of college students checked their email on a Saturday night. [...]