John and I are going to Phoenix, Arizona this weekend, and may be stopping in Pasadena, CA on the way home. Anyone want to meet up? Drop me a comment, let me know! We don’t have a lot of time, but we can meet up for coffee or something.
Plan USA/Childreach Sponsorship
For almost fifteen years, I’ve sponsored children in developing nations through Childreach/Plan USA. This is not the most personally meaningful thing I’ve done in my life, but it’s significant in many ways. For example, fifteen years is a long time to do anything. It’s almost half of my life, after all, and I’ve done nothing […]
Death of an Era….
The era of Trinity, my beautiful Powerbook G4. She took me into the land of video and videoblogging, helped me embrace the wonder of Mac OS X, and dutifully accepted hundreds of thousands of words for novels, short stories, tech manuals, and Videoblogging for Dummies. On Thursday, she had what can only be described as […]
What do you do when you’re not spending money?
Three weeks ago, I joined The Compact, which is a commitment not to buy any new products for a year. Well, I can’t quite commit to a year. Seriously– it’s just not in me to do anything for a whole year. But for 100 days? Sure– and if I’m going to develop a good habit, […]
Home Again
Well, I got home on Friday. The trip home was entertaining. We were delayed about an hour coming out of Marquette, but I didn’t notice– I had my wristwatch on Central time instead of local (Eastern). I didn’t figure it out until we were landing. My flight home was supposed to be Marquette-Detroit-Minneapolis-San Jose. The […]