Monthly Archives: July 2009

I was sad to see that Tom Watson didn’t survive the playoff round of the British Open, but good for him anyway. He held the lead and the world’s attention through four very solid days of golf. The poor guy … Continue reading →

We sent our old dryer to an early grave, it turns out. About a month or two ago, it started laboring. It would almost stop during the cycle, then start back up again. It was painful to hear. We put it … Continue reading →

Any other year, I would be on the way to the airport right about now to make the long trek to NECON. This year I decided not to go, but I’m already missing it and it hasn’t even started. I … Continue reading →

I like the new auto-upgrade feature in WordPress. I just clicked a button yesterday and now I’m running 2.8.1. Easy as pie. I don’t follow baseball closely, usually not until the end of the season, but I did watch the … Continue reading →

I hate it when an otherwise good TV show relies on terribly faulty logic to further the story. Last night’s episode of The Closer is case in point. In order to give the wannabe cop access to detailed information about … Continue reading →

I didn’t really know Charles N. Brown from Locus magazine, but I’ve been reading his magazine for the better part of 25 years now. It’s the only magazine to which I actually subscribe. My favorite part of the magazine, outside of … Continue reading →

When my buddy Brian was sick he used to say that he felt like 10 lbs of crap in a 5 lb bag. Apropos of that, we watched Seven Pounds with Will Smith last night. The movie suffers from a … Continue reading →

I revised my Storytellers essay and, having made few changes, posted it to the dashboard so it will show up a week from today. Then I moved on to another essay that I’m trying to get finished as part of … Continue reading →

Of course, now that I have a Kindle, Amazon goes and lowers the price by $60. I wrote the first draft of my Storytellers Unplugged essay this morning, 1000 cathartic words. My wife thought it was great, and I hope it … Continue reading →

I’ve been listening to two things lately. At the gym on my iPod I’ve been playing “left right left right,” the free live album that Coldplay offered on their website. Their songs have an energy that lends itself to the … Continue reading →