Rising Spiral

I was lucky enough to marry the most wonderful woman I've ever met, and my very best friend. Happy Anniversary Chandra! yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Seven Years Ago Today..."; http://blog.risingspiral.c...

Friday night C and I were invited to Mt. Pisgah to celebrate the upcoming wedding of our friends Dan and Ivy. They're getting married somewhere very warm and far away this December, and so they thought it would be a good idea to have lots of friends come out to Pisgah and wish them well,...

This was our first weekend home in almost three weeks. It was quite hot, and only somewhat productive, but generally enjoyable. On Friday, I worked the first half of the day from home and settled back in from returning from California. Around noon Chandra came home to pick me up and we headed out to Shotgun...

What do you do when you're on the road and have some downtime? Study philosophy of varying varieties. More specifically, you read JG Bennett's Deeper Man, The Big Lebowski fan book, and Lamb by Christopher Moore. All while listening to classical music and jazz from the Mobile Laboratory: But then, once you're thoroughly sick of travel and ready...

This is my second day in Santa Clara. When I initially planned this trip, I thought it would be chock full of work. But the way things were shaping up last week before I left for Chicago, it looked like there wasn't going to be much to do this week. As it turns out, I've been...

Several days and several hundred miles now separate me from the three day Crim-fest at Park West in Chicago. This was hands down the best King Crimson concert/event experience I've ever participated in. For me, all three shows were stages in the same single event. An event which was exhilarating, electrifying, at times sublime, but...

So, for several months as C and I have been looking forward to this week's Chicago trip, we've been going under the assumption that we had booked the flight out of Eugene. Today, on a whim, I decided to check our flight itinerary and discovered that we're NOT flying out of Eugene. We're flying out...