Personal

Today is eight years since Paul and I went on our first date.  We went to a little Italian restaurant off the High Street.  Being a starving student, I wolfed my pizza down, while Paul lost his appetite.  He lent me his scarf on the way home because I said

Why am I keeping this blog?  I know a couple of people who are reading it (Iceland and UK show up in the web stats, so does Germany, though I'm fairly sure I don't know anyone there.)  It's probably half development journal for Chronicle,

Today is a special day.  The second day of the second month of the second year, 02/02/02. One good thing about having cable TV is the Discovery Channel.  "There's always more to discover" is their slogan.  And they're right.  Just think, I

It would be really nice if a Chronicle macro could insert HTML tags, especially paragraph, bold, italic, image and link tags.  Those are all the ones I'd use regularly.  Definitely the image tag, because a chap called Steve MacLaughlin made this blogsticker, which I love. I remember walking

My Social Security Number finally arrived!  I am not a free person, I am a number!  Woohoo!  The last obstacle between me and a job is no more.  And it only took 4 1/2 weeks, instead of the two I was told. Got a lovely java compiler message the

Never eat a piece of caffeinated candy after midday if you want to sleep. The St Louis Rams football team beat the Green Bay Packers team 45 to 17 yesterday.  A 28 point lead is almost embarrassing.  Watched it at the Pageant, just off U City loop, with Sarah and

Woke up to about three inches of snow today, but nothing on the road or pavements thanks to the salt crew.  It's still coming down., but I don't think it'll be staying.

The signal to noise ratio on paper mail is horribly low.  Six bits of noise in the box today and not one signal, especially not the signal I'm waiting for.  People say that if junk email cost money to send there would be less of it, but I

I feel tired.  After two days spent largely asleep I still feel tired.  I still have the attention span of a block of cheese.  I've GOT to get back to my HTML class.  It's not fair to go offline when they're getting to the

Joy.  My first cold/cough of the season.  One car is in for it's first service ever, the other is romping towards the 80,000 mile mark.  And the weather forecast says snow at last!  Bring it on, I hate waiting for snow, knowing this time last year