For those who might be concerned; I’m not at 100%, but I’m recovering well enough. Today I’m up and around, and while my foot is swollen and aches somewhat, the sharp, debilitating pain of earlier in the week seems to have passed.
Category Archives: General
Distance to the Linux desktop
I want to preface this rant (and it’s going to be a rant) with some background. I do this not trumpet my own experience , but to point out that I’m not ranting because I’m not capable. I’ve been playing with (and programming) computers for about 25 years. I ran my first Unix-based computer 17 …
Week 3: It all goes down the tubes
After starting off with 2 great weeks on the 101 things list, week 3 was a disaster. I should start off by pointing out that: I’m sick (flu-like symptoms, and I spent most of the week running mild fever) I had a colleague in town, so I had to go to the office everyday I’m …
Week #2
Time (actually very late) for another update on the 101 things list. I sent my Rolleiflex camera in for service (#55), it works out that the taking lens has a small chip in it (grrr…), but apparently it’s pretty minor, and I went ahead and approved the repairs to the mechanicals (shutter and transport overhaul …
Global warming…
I can’t believe that some boneheads in a school district placed absurd restrictions on showing ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘ just because global warming is a theory. For christ’s sake it’s 63 degrees in the middle of January and I only live about 100 miles south of Valley Forge (you remember the place where the Revolutionary Army …
Diversification
After many (profitable) years of having a completely tech-driven portfolio, I finally chickened out and diversified my holdings. It’s still tech heavy, and I’m continuing to emphasize growth stocks, but there should be somewhat less risk overall. Here’s a bit of eye-candy on my current allocations. by Industry by Region of the World There’s still …
Skiing (at last)
With the past couple of days being cooler than the recent (globally warmed) trend, I managed to head out to Deep Creek Lake for a little skiing at Wisp. Temperatures stayed mostiy in the high 30’s to low 40’s and snow conditions were pretty good considering the high temperatures over the last month. Wisp managed …
Beginning of the New Year
Just a quick update after one week of the New Year, and 1001 days. With 7 days down, I’ve managed to knock-off a couple of minor items from the 101, mostly just buying small stuff around the house. A quck trip to Ikea and the local big-box home stores yielded a $50 faux-persian rug for …
A little help from my friends…
BTW: I just wanted to mention that if anyone has any ideas/suggestions/want to help or participate with the accomplishment of the 101 things, please let me know. I don’t think there’s anyway I’m going to get these done without a little help from my friends. Or maybe even a lot of help… 🙂
101 things in 1001 days
My list of 101 things in 1001 days. Officially started 1/1/07, and due 9/28/09. It’s currently in random loosely organized order, and I’m not positive about all of the items. It was harder than I imagined to come up with this whole list, and I’m not sure I can pull off all this stuff in …