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Wow … blast from the past …

Scenes from the swing scene at the Hi-Ball Lounge in San Francisco, late 1998 or early 1999. My then girlfriend, now ex-wife Kim shows up three times in dance sequences … she’s wearing the black suit with red top, dancing with the big guy in the blue bowling shirt (whose name I’m blanking) and [...]

Neural commuting …

There is a theory in cognitive therapy that people repeat the same patterns because our minds become used to traveling particular neural paths; and thus seek those paths.

It’s sort of the mental equivalent of commuting … where you always take the same route to work, even though you know that sometimes traffic is really [...]

Totally spaced it …

Had to run in to the office for a couple of hours today; primarily for a meeting with some consultants about our IT department’s support structure … like many companies we outsource our tech support (not for clients, mind you, only for ourselves) to a company in Canada.

I guess our contract is going to [...]

Drunken blogging; good idea or bad?

Points in favor:

Lowered inhibitions from alcohol intoxication mean you might actually post how you feel.

Points against:

Lowered inhibitions from alcohol intoxication mean you might actually post how you feel.

Fortunately, I am drunk enough that I don’t have to actually think about it … I’m not sure I could actually put together a [...]

I wonder …

… when (or even if) I’ll be able to get my shit together enough to start dating again; to even ask someone a woman who piques my interest out …

BOBness in Paradise

This article, in its original form, appeared in the final edition of the Bridgestone Owner’s Bunch (BOB) Gazette, in 1994.

What is the most frustrating thing that can happen to a cyclist?

I think one of them is being forced to walk. One weekend, late in the summer of 1994, I had that experience.

Since [...]

Life on Earth

A number of people I know are going through the divorce and/or break-up process right now … and it’s easy for me to understand what they’re going through, up to a point … their not-soon-enough-to-be-ex-spouses (ex-spices?) are making their lives difficult.

As an ex-husband-to-be, I decided that it would just make my life easier if [...]

Changes …

Going through the process that I have been over the past several months, one of the things that I’ve discovered (not that it was much of a surprise), is that I’m rather resistant to change. I hate it.

I’ve also realized that I need to start making some changes in my life if I want [...]

Letter to my parents …

I’m avoiding a conversation I haven’t wanted to have, because I’m not really ready to talk about it yet … But to be fair to the two of you, I feel like I should let you know.

Kim and I did decide to get a divorce, and filed in early February. Since the divorce was [...]

It’s officially official

Got the following email from K. yesterday:

Subject: Proof the universe is sentient

It has a sense of irony.

2/13/07. Maybe we should have avoided the 13th? Let’s blame it on my mother not paying the deposit so we had to move it from 10/6 to 10/13.

I’m thankful that it wasn’t 2/14/07. That would [...]