Personal News

  • Visiting

    Angela and I went to Chickamauga National battlefield memorial while we were in Chattanooga over the weekend. There’s something about standing in a place where 34,000 men lost their lives over the course of just a few days that really puts all of life’s little problems in perspective.

  • Personal Update

    Those of you who follow along on the tech blog know that I was anticipating a long, stressful couple of days this week because of our annual meeting at work. I was looking forward to that being over and done with Weds. night and relaxing. However, that did not turn out to be the case,…

  • Marriage

    My wife spent Saturday and Sunday visiting with her folks while I was on call all weekend and had to stay in town. I know there are some people out there who see that we actually do travel off to do things without each other as a bad sign, but to us it’s just normal…

  • Geeking out

    If you read my other blog at all, you pretty much know I’ve been working on a ton of tech things lately. I know this is directly in response to the stress that’s going on at work. Our annual meeting is next week, and we’re having a bigger meeting than we’ve ever done before. Somewhere…

  • Out of control

    Want to know how little control we have over the circumstances of our lives? Yesterday I was sick, at home, with an internet connection that wasn’t working and, later in the day, a telephone that didn’t work. And there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about any of it, so there was no real…

  • Long week

    Man I’m glad it’s Friday. I’ve been working on so many different things this week that I’ve completely lost all track of what day it is, which makes the week seem really, really long! You know, because like Weds night I wasn’t thinking “two more days until the weekend”, I was just getting through Weds…