Aboot
Swashbuckling, Atlanta-area, Technology Program Manager. I brew beer, play drums, run a little bit, and try not to under-achieve. I have people skills.




With most major media outlets focusing on the sickening fact that the U.S. just lost most of a major metropolitan area to a rainstorm, I thought I\’d lighten the mood a little and talk about the illegal war in Iraq that we are currently losing. Actually, since I\’m not in Iraq and I\’m not in [...]
Read More...I usually avoid memes like I try to avoid poison ivy, but, as we\’ve all learned, sometimes I can\’t help but rub it all over my body. I stayed home sick yesterday, and I\’m playing catch-up today, so a nice fluffy meme is perfect. Nikki originally posted this one. Go to Music Outfitters and, in [...]
Read More...In the throes of last week\’s wicked poison ivy infection, I employed the assistance of some prescription medicine to help wrap things up more quickly. The poison ivy rash wasn\’t making me crazy from discomfort, it was making me crazy because it would not stop oozing, and new areas of rash seemed to pop up [...]
Read More...The only thing I\’ve got today is that there\’s big doins\’ afoot which will be elaborated upon next week. So then … here\’s today\’s snareline picture. This little ditty is from a Tate Canter warmup in 1998. Somewhere in one of the shows we managed to implement the old kiss-the-bicep visual. Rob (standing to my [...]
Read More...For the first time since high school, I am going to the doctor to help stem this here poison ivy infection. The miracle soap has worked well for me for the past couple years, but this time around, I have somehow managed to really \”put my wang in the hornets\’ nest,\” as they say. The [...]
Read More...As promised, here\’s a happy-time, super-fun picture of my festering, infected neck. I hope it leaves a bitching scar, you know, for the ladies. You should see my pillowcase. Look how happy I am: Also, my nose and chin in that photo confirm rumors that I\’m a witch. Or a caricature of a sinister German [...]
Read More...Let\’s get this party started: I HAVE POISON IVY ON MY NECK. There\’s a solid line of rash about a half inch wide extending from just underneath my chin across the left side of my neck almost to my collar. I am actively contemplating the pros and cons of sawing my own head off with [...]
Read More...I told you assjacks the next entry would be made from Laptown AND I WAS NOT LYING! The Geester and I are both sitting on the couch. She is knitting and I am on the wienernet. Ghost World is playing on the video hi-fi. We are truly living the dream. Scarlett Johansson is hotter than [...]
Read More...I had a dream last night that my laptop was delivered as an assortment of components in a brown paper shopping bag. I was supposed to attach the screen to the computer myself, but all that was in the bag was the LCD screen, a hard drive, some memory DIMMs, and a handful of I/O [...]
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