Topic: long time

Right from when I was a kid—a long time ago in India—I was familiar with the importance of the Fourth of July in the United States because of a family connection: the standing joke at home was that my parents lost their freedom when they got married on the very day that Americans celebrate their independence. So, yes, anniversary greetings to my parents. After my wife and I gained...

7/04/08 It has been quite a long time since I failed as spectacularly as I did at the Fez Ballroom at the June Andaz. It was a hot, hot, hot day for Portland: 100 degrees Farenheit. The heat was even more startling, given that the nights have been around 50 degrees lately. The number of people at our club nights is usually inversely proportional to how hot it is that day. When I checked the...

I started waving the white flag on house cleaning a long time ago. It was right around the time I caught my boys flicking the slime from their toothbrushes straight on the mirror. Why? Why not? But every once in a while I like to take the status of our home from "Neanderthal" up to "Cro-Magnon." Even though I highly doubt those cavemen had mirrors, let alone toothbrushes or floss....

Been waiting for this one for a long time, thanks to one of my all-time favorite movies...and I quote... "I'm 37." "What?" "I'm 37, I'm not old." "Well, I couldn't just call you 'man'." "You could call me 'Dennis'." "I didn't know you were called 'Dennis'." "Didn't bother to find out, did you?" Thanks to the future-posting feature of Blogger, I'll be in the morning meeting for the Patrol...

. . . Ada finally mastered simultaneous tricycle steering and pedaling.. . . spent a nice long time playing independently with a good friend at a local wading pool.. . . fell off the play structure, landing flat on her back but unharmed.. . . fell while running and then clung to me and called mama in a way that was surprisingly charming.. . . tried to talk me into bringing every one of her...

Long time readers will be surprised to see a short post on this subject. I am disappointed by the margin at the Supreme Court, 5-4, but I am less than astonished at the finding. The historical record is clear, despite the dissent, and this outcome was assured if the record held any meaning. My friend, Zak Johnson, over at Blue Steel Democrats has an article that I don't see myself improving on,...

One of my long-time favorite online friends and bloggers Heather Anne made with the zombie meme today. I had never seen this particular meme before and while I typically shy away from them, as so many of you do, too, the scenario at hand admittedly immediately appealed to my gentle zombie sensibilities. Not only because I'm a bit of a sucker for "horror" flicks, especially of the well-written and...

I have decided to leave Jive Software to do something that I've been wanting to do for a long time ... start my own consulting business focused on online communities and social media. Many of my friends know that I have been talking about going independent and moving into consulting for a while now. The timing just seemed right to me. The background I was hired at Jive a little more than a year...

My eyes are bad and they've been bad for a long time. I don't see that well. I don't see real bad, but, I don't see well. Many years ago I had my eyes checked at a downtown Corvallis location and got glasses. The glasses were horrendously ground and refracted one light into a dozen. Same thing in rain. They were not only unusable, but they were dangerous to wear if driving at night or...

Wow. I left my house at 10:20 a.m. and returned at 7:20 p.m. I'd been on my bike, hunting down caches, for a very long time. Of course, being with my buddy, Carnivorous Hippy, made the day just fly by! We're "hard core," but we also know when to stop and enjoy a bit of local faire, such as Dutch Bros. and American Dream. Oh, yeah, we started the day at Noah's, feasting on bagels and coffee for...