I slept in today, precisely because I could. It’s my last vacation day from IBM since just before the middle of December. I spent a good portion of today working on mitigating the imminent loss of my NCSU web hosting space, which currently houses my home page. Toward that end, I purchased a domain name … Read more
I forgot to mention this yesterday, but this struck me as odd and I wanted to capture it: Last night while watching Queens, which was in Spanish with English subtitles, I turned up the volume at one point. I can’t fathom why I felt the need to do that, since I was “reading” the dialog … Read more
Joe and I left for Charlotte at a little before noon, and we had a tedious drive there. It was rainy, foggy, and the visibility was very, very poor. We saw at least three cars, if not more, veered off in ditches, presumably due to hydroplaning, as they were all single-car accidents. One car was totally flipped over and … Read more
Talk about a birthday he won’t soon forget! Evidently this guy partied at a nightclub late into the night of his birthday, got into an argument with someone, and then stabbed him. The stabbed guy later died. “What’d you do on your birthday?” “Oh, you know… I just… killed somebody.” Talk about a hangover the … Read more
Oh glorious sleeping in and vacation days! I ran by Target, where I had printed a couple of pictures from yesterday at my sister’s, as well as a couple of my graduation pictures. I stuck the one of my sister and her husband in front of their tree onto the front of a “photo card” … Read more
This is what Christmas is all about: Here’s some updates from my friend Dave, who as noted in this entry, adopts a family each year and asks his friends if they want to contribute to making their Christmas special. Presents for them; an affirmation for me. Dear John, First off, I was blown away by … Read more
I met Joe at his house at 8AM, and before leaving for the airport, we exchanged gifts. As usual, he went over the top in gifts, so much so that I insisted that he take back one of his $25 iTunes gift cards! I dropped him off at the airport at just after 8:30 for his … Read more
I was up and at ’em early this morning, as I had (too much) running around to do before graduation at 1:30 today. I ran by the church in which we were graduating to make sure I knew where it was for later today, to scope out the parking situation around it, and to be … Read more
Today, while working on my annual holiday letter, which has turned into an actual newsletter this year with a title of The Martin Chronicles no less, but I digress… So anyway, I was working on it and looked up, and there sat a guy on a stool by the window reading a book called, How … Read more
Oh glorious sleep! I had a totally lazy day today, catching up my blog entries from Thursday and Friday, and running a couple of loads through the dishwasher to incrementally clean up from the party. We only had five dancers tonight, including Rick, Herman, Carl, Michael, and myself. Herman only knows a couple of dances, … Read more