Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
Yesterday, it was hard enough bearing witness to two huge corporations engaging in levels of bureaucratic officiousness that would make Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz absolutely giddy with joy (if proper permission had been secured for such joy and signed in triplicate and countersigned and approved…and if he actually remembered what joy was like in a non-bureaucratic sense if he's even capable of such an intellectual leap of faith) with the goal of SUCCESSFULLY DOING EVERYTHING IN…
At the chemist's drive through lane signing a slip of paper saying that I have received a copy of the (absolutely and hopelessly useless!) "Notice of Privacy Practices" mandated by HIPAA that you cannot actually see or read and this was playing on WFOX… :)
A truly surreal moment that I can't imagine ever happening at any other time in the family history: watching my daughter being rendered birthday honours in a bingo hall! Yes, she chose bingo to celebrate her 10th birthday and it was quite an enjoyable time. Mind you, I'm still trying to wrap my head round the thought that my baby girl is now 10! Yikes!
The good: being ready to dramatically reduce that nice long iTunes wish list and get some righteous tunes for WFOX! The bad: Apple removed the buy all button from the wish list to protect idiot users who apparently can't grasp what a buy all button does in practise. Even worse: iTunes doesn't have a shopping cart so each item in the wish list is purchased individually resulting in multiple charges to credit card. On the…
This is the last photo I have of Dad and his grandchildren in front of his house (from over three years ago). He is in a far better place now and whilst it still seems to take a bit of getting used to, I know that he knows he is loved even if he is no longer walking among us. Looking at this picture, I'm struck by the rather impertinent thought that where that neighbourhood…
After dropping Nick off at school downtown, my precinct is on the way back home so I figured I'd pop in and vote in the primary being held today. What I wasn't expecting was to find a cameraman from Time Warner Cable News INSIDE THE BUILDING blocking the door to the polling room and then keeping the camera pointed at me the entire time I was in there and going through the voting procedures. Can…
A funny thing happened when I took my 2010 Traverse in for the 90K mile servicing at 95K miles...meet anirnisiaq qavvaq which in Inuktitut (the language of the Inuit) literally means angel of the blue ice. Qavvaq ice is very old ice (usually at least three years old or more) which is clear or if it has any color at all tends to be close to this shade of blue. The name was easy to…
This set is the result of climbing Mount Washington near the carpool lane at school and getting a great vantage point to shoot downtown Raleigh!
My sister entered these photos from NYC into the Cumberland County Fair and apparently they impressed the judges enough to win. To say it was a surprise is a grand understatement!
There were a few minutes to kill before making my way round the Conga Line to the boarding area, there was a camera in the Traverse, and a nice hill with a beautiful vantage point for taking pictures of the buildings downtown. I'm so there...
Sometimes you get lucky when you hang out on the balcony at the General Aviation terminal that overlooks the GA ramp. In this case, I managed to catch the UNC Tar Heels boarding their charter flight to San Antonio for the Final Four! Sadly, they would fall short of the title but still that Delta MD-83 is a nice ride! :)
