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My home town in the news

When you live in small town, when anything out of the ordinary happens it get written up in the local paper. In the big city not so much.
A few weeks ago I was awaken at 4 am to a loud explosion. I could see out my window flames rising 20 feet into [...]

Duty Calls

For the fourth time in eight years, I had jury duty last week. Years ago, when you were called you had to go down to the court house every day for a week (or more) and sit in the jury room waiting to be called for a case. Now you call in [...]

Thursday Video Clips - kids today with their rock’n roll

( Daily Life and videos )

Busy busy busy. Wish I could write more. Working very hard on my music website project. Working very hard helping Martin doing construction (seems I’m very good at getting PVC to align.)
A few videos representing the youth of America.
Jonas Brothers: When You Look Me In The Eyes, andSOS.
Soulja [...]

Already mailed in my ballot

I haven’t but that’s what I’m telling all the B.O. and H.C. telemarketers volunteers when they call.

Words of wisdom #47

Just because it’s in the Triple Washed Organic Lettuce bag doesn’t mean it’s lettuce.

If I wasn’t unemployed, I’d be unemployed right now

After I moved back from NYC I continued to work for Instinet for anther year and a half. After that ended, I interviewed with a company just a mile from my home, Axium. They do payroll services and accounting for Hollywood production companies and were looking for a senior Java developer. [...]

Christmas Eve

( Daily Life and theKid )

Ok, I’m still not writing like I should. Plenty to write about, just no time. Too much work to do starting a business. Too many people to be codependent with.
Christmas Eve we spent with the 4 year old kid (soon to be 5). Nick, Martin and I got him an [...]

taking stock

Long time readers may remember that about seven years ago I spent three months in Tokyo working for a financial company. One of my coworkers there told me about his first job as a stock broker in NYC. A client had called up to trade a large block of stock and my [...]

Drama drama drama drama tina drama drama

I can deal with Manny acting like Manny. I can deal with Moe acting like Moe. I can handle Jack acting like Jack. But I just cannot deal with Jack acting like Manny.

One whole year

I’m still here! But a whole year since I’ve posted! It’s not that I haven’t been online. Have posted some to the family blog. And almost daily posts to various web forums. But just haven’t taken the time to post here.
But what caused me to go a whole year [...]