My life is slowly getting back to normal. I got the cast off my foot a week ago, and while I still need a walking boot and crutches or a cane to get around, I’m at least a bit more mobile than I was. It is still tiring, especially in the heat, and now that [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2010 by nethound
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I recently bought a motorcycle. It’s an old Honda Magna, one of the hot rod bikes I remember from my younger days, not exactly what I was looking for, but a respectable cruiser nonetheless. Getting a motorcycle may have something of a midlife-crisis feel to it, and perhaps it is. I am not, however, getting [...]
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by nethound
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My D.C. trip quite an experience. It started even before I got there, while waiting for my flight in KC. The mix of passengers was different than what I’m use to. More people with bad haircuts and cheap suits, lots of them. Most of them seemed to know each other, lots of animated discussions, plastic [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by nethound
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Tuesday I get to fly out to Washington D.C. for a couple of days for my job. We have a Government Relations Branch which essentially is a lobbying organization. My involvement is purely technical, and I’m going out to check on some problems with their phone system. I’ve never been to D.C. and I think [...]
Posted on April 13th, 2008 by nethound
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It is 11:00 pm on Monday night. My first DragonCon is now behind me and there is nothing left to do but catch a little sleep then rise early to make it to the airport tomorrow and head back to Kansas. To people outside of the scifi/fantasy/fandom/gamer world, there really is no way to explain [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by nethound
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Hanging out in a hotel in Denver. Sent here by my job for training on Avaya phone systems, which has been pretty interesting as far as these corporate training sessions go. Got to visit my aunt, cousins, and their families while I was here, which was nice. I haven’t seen most of them for about [...]
Posted on August 8th, 2007 by nethound
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This is going to be a long one, been traveling all day with lots of time to think. I had to fly to San Jose, California today for a Unix training class at HP. It has been about six years since I’ve been on a plane, it was before 9/11 when I last flew. Its [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2007 by nethound
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