Personal News

  • Tennessee

    I saw this entry over at Instapundit the other day of pictures he took driving around the mountains near Knoxville and Gatlinburg. I got really excited because we’re going to be in Tennessee next week. We’ll be staying closer to the Cumberland Plateau part of the state than we will be the Smokies, but there…

  • Stress

    It’s amazing how much stress I can feel when any change might be coming in my life, even when it’s good change! I feel run down, tired, and a little under the weather, all because I’m using up all of my energy worrying about how some things are going to work out. Yes there’s potential…

  • Wow

    Gee it’s been awhile since I wrote anything here, huh? I guess by the time I got back from vacation I needed to catch up on so many things that I sort of lost track. There was a ton of work stuff to get to, there was spending some time with my wife, there was…

  • Rest Day

    Now I know what you’re thinking, spending nearly 11 hours driving from Des Moines to Denver is hardly what you would consider a rest day, but I never claimed to be normal. You have to understand, as much as I enjoy meeting people and chatting with people at something like Gnomedex, I’m an introvert, to…

  • Gnomedex

    Yes, I’m here at Gnomedex again this year. Having a pretty good time, although in groups like this I find myself being somewhat guarded, and my past definitely shows up large at times. It’s a bit weird having people come up and talk to you because they read one of your sites, or more, and…

  • Combining my two sides

    As you know, if you’ve been reading here long, my two blogs really, to me, represent the two different sides of me. My tech blog is, obviously, my geeky, technical side, while this blog is more about my emotional, sensitive and creative side. Well, now with my new birthday present, a Minolta X700 SLR camera,…