General

Elvis was really the first white boy to bling it up.

Tommy Hilfiger

“Not to know what occurred before your birth is to remain ever a child”

– Unknown

It’s always entertaining to come home to find comments in my weblog. They’re often from Kerri or from Erin, or sometimes some other bloggers. Many of them have made me laugh, cry, or just giggle out loud.

There’s also a large contingent of jerkwads who formerly worked in my organization under me who have chosen to come to my weblogs to post insulting comments about myself, my family, or other people whom I choose to associate with – and often call my friends.

The most recent comments, now deleted, referred to me as a “fat nerd”, which I have to admit was quite the original insult, since I am overweight by about thirty pounds at the current time, and I’m definately a nerd. I mean, look, my hobbies are reading, computing, the internet, technology, and gadgets. So if you think that’s insulting then you are more immature than I thought.

If this is what excites you, coming here and posting comments on this weblog, as if you’re going to upset me, my friends, my family, then you’re wrong. I have lived through far more difficult people and far more difficult situations than worrying about your jerkassed comments here, in this place that isn’t even real.

If you actually believe that this is going to bring me down, then all of you are much bigger idiots than I ever thought.

Cyrus Jones 1810-1913,
Made his great grandchildren believe you could live to 103
103 is forever when you’re just a little kid
So, Cyrus Jones lived forever.

Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow?
So that I can feel the rain….

– Dave Matthews

Haven’t blogged a whole lot lately, had alot going on.

Spent six days away from home – two days in Providence, Rhode Island teaching a class, and then three days in Minneapolis for some interviews,meetings, and fun.

Unfortunately, those interviews didn’t turn out quite the way that I had hoped, so no promotion for me in the near future. But that’s ok, pretty happy doing what I’m doing.

Came back for a week’s vacation – and ended up spending that entire vacation sick.

I did work on a new personal programming project – EzyRank which is now up and running. Seems to be doing well at around 200,000 pageviews daily, so I certainly can’t complain about that.

Started raking leaves today until my throat started hurting, will go back out and do that in a bit.

Bought Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour and have enjoyed that so far.

Having some friends over for dinner.

Hmm, that’s a good update for now 🙂

Do not look for the Islamic community here to acknowledge that the United States, in little over a decade, freed Kuwait, saved most of the Bosnians and Kosovars, tried to feed Somalis, urged the Russians not to kill Chechnyans, belatedly ensured that no longer were Shiites and Kurds to be slaughtered in Iraq, spoke out against Kuwait’s ethnic cleansing of a third of a million Palestinians — and now is spending $87 billion to make Iraqis free.

No, in this depressing age, the real problem is apparently our support for democratic Israel and all those pesky Jews worldwide, who seem to crop up everywhere as sly war makers, grasping film executives, conspiratorial politicians, and greedy colonialists, and thus make life so difficult for the rest of us. [National Review]

I am sitting
In the morning
At the diner
On the corner
I am waiting
At the counter
For the man
To pour the coffee
And he fills it
Only halfway
And before
I even argue
He is looking
Out the window
At somebody
Coming in
“It is always
Nice to see you”
Says the man
Behind the counter
To the woman
Who has come in