Archive for June, 2003
Friday, June 27th, 2003
Natives II
My original thought about the Natives post was something about the “You know you’re from X when…” lists that every state and region has. But it was too wordy and incoherent so I went for short and simple. Five minutes after I posted it, though, someone forwarded me a “You know you’re from Arizona when…” [...]
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Friday, June 27th, 2003
Sweat
Man did I sweat tonight. More than I have in years and years, and all for 20 minutes on an excercise bike. It felt good though. Sweating makes me feel like I accomplished something.
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Thursday, June 26th, 2003
Natives
Honest to god, the easiest way to a native is to watch them on a street corner in the summer. They stand in the shade of the light post.
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2003
Pumping Resistance
I’m actually working out now. It’s been 6 times in a row or so, that makes a routine. It’s the first time in my life I’ve done this on a regular basis. In high school I rode my bike and played tennis on a daily basis, but that certainly wasn’t the same. At the gym [...]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2003
Meetings
I’ve been taking Monday off every week this summer, to make up for a really grueling semester. It’s amazing how much taking the day entirely off resembles working it and sitting in meetings all day.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2003
Checks and Balances
I miss paying your bill at the register. It used to be only the finer restaurants would bring your bill and take your money, but now it’s everywhere, even Denny’s. I liked the opportunity to tell someone else how much the service sucked. It was a good check and balance that has largely disappeared.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2003
Oops
The lesson for today: Don’t throw glass. You would think a grown man would have figured that out by now. You would be wrong.
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2003
What’s in a name?
atomicthoughts.com is a weird domain name evidently. But it is memorable, I hope. It won’t be a place to discuss nuclear proliferation or the finer points of the SALT II treaty. No, it’s atomic as in “small”, “singular”, “self contained”. One of the coolest concepts I learned of in IT is transactional integrity. (Coolest IT [...]
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Sunday, June 15th, 2003
Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day to Nick, to Dave, and to my grandfather. These are all men who are pretty good to damn good fathers, and who I look up to. I’ve spent the last 2 Mother’s days, since my mother passed away suddenly, in mourning. Also celebrating the day for my wife, the best mother I [...]
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Sunday, June 8th, 2003
Happy Birfday to Me
Yesterday I turned 31. As part of an extended birthday weekend, on Friday I went to Friday’s Front Row (The TGIFriday’s in Bank One Ballpark) with my family and Earl, and Earl and I hung around for a very dull loss by the Diamondbacks. The next day I attended a memorial service, had an extremely [...]