Aboot
Swashbuckling, Atlanta-area, Technology Account Manager. I brew beer, play drums, and try not to under-achieve. I have people skills.
Vegas: Robbed
Spent last week at CES in Vegas. For those of you who don’t know, the letters CES stand for 35 Football Fields Of Flat Screens and/or Mobile Accessories. This story, however, is about what happened after I got home from CES.
Read More...A Pilgrimage
My maternal grandmother is celebrating her birthday this Sunday. I will refrain from divulging her actual number of laps around the sun because I am a gentleman and she gave life to the wonderful woman who breathed life into me and it would be inelegant, insensitive, and gauche to trivialize such an accomplishment by such an inspiring woman. She will be ninety. Holy shit.
Read More...Premature deck announcement (aka – SINKHOLIO)
So … we\’re going to put a new deck on our house. I originally planned a big announcement (which really just means a long blog post with lots of capital letters), but I\’ve come to realize if I try to plan something to completion, I will spend the rest of my life in the planning [...]
Read More...Onomatopoenis
Oh, did I forget to tell you I\’m in a new band? It\’s called Onomatopoenis. We have one album [s/t], and it has one song on it, which is called Onomatopoenis. Unfortunately, immediately following the release of our debut record, we broke up having never played a single live show. Oh well. Here is the [...]
Read More...Garden 2008
I\’ve tried my hand at suburban farming in the past. As with virtually every aspect of my life, I am really good at getting it started and exceptionally shitty at following it through to the end. Why, just last summer, I started a (rather late) container garden at the end of the driveway with some [...]
Read More...The most awkward interaction of my life thus far
Before I address the title of this post, I would like to convey, as I’m sure I have in the past, one of life’s greatest pleasures. Quite simply, I cannot help but smile when my ass hits the toilet seat in the work bathroom only to discover that the seat is icy cold. I’m not [...]
Read More...Phoning it in
As often happens lately, I started this post a long time ago but never finished it. While my inability to finish things is discouraging, it is nice to have half-full blog posts for days (like today) when I\’m short on ideas.
Read More...Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
YESTERDAY: First day back in the saddle after a little spring break week in Portland. Thought I avoided any discernible jet-lag, but now there are forehead grease stains on my monitor. Interesting. Our trip to Stumptown was fairly typical. We ate and drank like there was perpetually an electric chair on the horizon. We got [...]
Read More...Anatomy of your new favorite sandwich
July, 2001 – Somewhere speeding through the scorching desert of Arizona, or New Mexico, or Southern Colorado, a young man grew restless. This restlessness had grown from the seeds of endless Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches with tortilla chips. The goal of saving time and money by eating sandwiches in the van instead of stopping [...]
Read More...Moons over whatevah
It\’s looking like today might be a little bit slower than it has been in a long while, so why don\’t I crank out a tedious update of what has been going on over the past moon or so? HUH?! WHY DON\’T I?!?! Let\’s see … the trial Gia was working on, which gained intensity [...]
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