This Christmas is a little strange. My wife left me… to visit family in Australia, so I’m on my own. I don’t have any family around, so my prospects were going to be pretty solitary. I ended up making the decision to drive down to Florida to visit with my grandparents for [...]

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Was talking with my brother today and got on the subject of tipping (apparently it was on NPR today). We discussed the lousy experience we sometimes get, and there’s no way to indicate that in any way that anyone will notice. I’d like to suggest restaurants start “line-item tipping”.
When you come to leave [...]

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So Keith Elder has finally switched back to the “Apple is expensive” party line.  Keith and I had numerous “debates” about this topic years ago, and he was *always* quoting the Apple fan line that “spec for spec” Apples are not just competitive with regular PCs but *cheaper*.
I know Keith knows he believed it back [...]

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Tomorrow, Feb 14, is my 10th anniversary.  I’ve been married to my great wife Lesley for 10 years.  Today is really the last day of the 10th years we’ve been married – tomorrow starts year 11!  I’ve never done*anything* for 10 years except be alive. Never lived at any one address for 10 years – [...]

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Been mostly sick as a dog since Friday.  I think the jetlag kicked in, and I probably picked up something on the plane, or in the office Friday, cause from Friday night on, I’ve been very sick.  Saturday morning I was weaker than the writing in an in-flight magazine.  Sunday got a bit better, then [...]

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OK, not really ‘tech’ related at all, but I’ve just finished making some updates to my wife’s dollhouse miniature food site.  She’s got some new items available in time for all your dollhouse miniature holiday shopping needs (admit it, you have those needs!)  Have a look and buy that set of luxury chocolate truffles you [...]

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As some of you know, my wife makes dollhouse miniature food.  She is, quite simply, one of the best in the world.  We attended the Philadelphia Miniaturia show this past weekend where she exhibited.   We had a great time catching up with some old friends and making some new ones, as usual.  I didn’t get [...]

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My brother Mark recently got his ESL teaching degree.  Just wanted to throw out a public ‘congratulations’ to him.

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My wife Lesley became a US citizen today.  I was so proud, yet stupidly forgot to take a camera.  I turned on my camera phone for a moment, but you’re not supposed to have cell phones on in fed buildings(?).  I got one small snap, but it’s horrible.  The chap next to me said he’d [...]

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Ouch!  My car was hit by a falling (pushed?!) street sign…

Minimal damage, but we don’t know who the sign belongs to.  It was originally though that the landlord’s property insurance would cover this, but then it morphed in to being a Progress Energy issue.  The police that took the report said we’d probably not have [...]

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