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Yes, yes I know I haven't updated for a while. A long while. Fact is, I have another blog, and I'm not going to update this one. But, I wrote too much on it to take it down completely. So this is all you get.

Still in maintenance mode

Any questions?

Read the header again.

Page maintenance

I really should copy all the files from these pages over to another page that I'm regularly updating. For now, though, things are just going to stay here.

Hmmm....

Nothing much to say or talk about. But I feel a small twinge of guilt for not writing anything here for so long.

Well, that's it then.

New laptop, new entry

I got a new HP Pavillion laptop the other day and I've been getting it up and running. Windows XP Home is the operating system for now, but I doubt that will last for long. I'm remembering why I switched to linux in the first place, and I find that XP is just as annoying as 98 and ME.

So, that's about the only way you're going to get an update around here, i.e., when I get new hardware that I want to test. So sorry. No, wait, no I'm not.

Been a while...

So, putting aside the usual excuses, I find I don't really have a lot to say now, either. But, every six months or so, I feel the urge to put something on this page. If only to keep it active so pitas.com doesn't delete it.

Hmmph

So, thought I'd do another mini-entry today. This is being done on my bluetooth keyboard and my Dell Axim X50v handheld. Which handheld is almost as powerful as my laptop was, the one that I used all through law school. My laptop has 700 mhz processor speed and 256 mb memory. This has 624 processor speed, and the memory isn't really comparable. But I do have two and a quarter gigs in storage space. So that's all right then.

I figured I'd better do an entry if only to get used to the very small bluetooth keyboard... hey any excuse is a good excuse. I got the executive axim keyboard from dell as well. Total package was well under what I would have paid for a laptop.

The only real drawback is that it's a PocketPC, i.e., a Windows, device. All Microsoft, all the time... I've been spoiled by the many linux distributions I've used over the years, and I had forgotten that you have to pay for software. I just can't go hanging around the warez dudz any more, just wouldn't be right...

Moira went to swimming lessons today. And she cried the whole time. This is her second round of lessons, so I was a bit surprised. I've been rather irritated at her ever since.

Well, that's it. Gotta go.

Happy new year?

It's Dec. 30 and I'm slowly typing on my new PDA. Very cool, but slow.

So, that's it. Bye now.

Another token update, with no content...

Am I sorry?

No, I'm not. I've got a life. It gets in the way of maintaining this blog.

No excuses.

Sunburn

We went to Utah for my grandma's funeral last week. It was about 95 degrees, very sunny except for when there were thunderstorms in the evenings. We went swimming at Cherry Hill, an outdoor resort/campground for one of the days.

And I got a sunburn so bad, I'm still peeling and hurting over a week later. This is what I get for using the sunblock we found at Cathy's parent's house.

Not much more to write about. Things are pretty boring here.

Camping

Yes, yes I know I only update this thing twice-monthly, or not at all, I know that.

We spent the last few days camping in Seward, Alaska. Weather was great, in contrast to today which is cold and overcast. It was 70+, on the beach. We spent Saturday at the Sea Life Center, and then went to Exit Glacier, where Cathy and I carried the children through milky-white rivers to get right up close. To go through the streams I took off my socks and wore my sandals. The water was extremely cold. Cathy actually scooped up a piece of glacier ice that had broken off the glacier and washed into the stream. We held it on the trail back to the car. By the time we got to the car it was entirely melted.

The kids had a fun time. I threatened them that if they fought with each other while we were gone we would pack up and go home. So for the most part they got along.

Not much else to tell. But it was a fun trip.

eeeeeeyyyyy No.

I am home, sick, again. I spent Memorial Day mostly ill, then yesterday very ill, and today am mostly ill again. I won't bother to explain the finer gradations of the flu, get close enough to me and you can experience them for yourself.

I am not going to archive the month of May, 2004, as I think I only did two entries for the entire month. I just don't have a lot to say, and for what I DO have to say, it doesn't make in into the blog. Ah well.

Springtime colds are the worst.

We went on a wildlife cruise the weekend before last, down in Kenai Fjords National Park. We departed Seward at noonish, and returned a little after five pm. It was spectacular, my seasickness notwithstanding. We saw quite a few birds, some Steller sea lions, at least one humpback whale (or "well" as many of the other people on the boat called it, as in "look there, it's a well!"), and several mountain goats and their kids. My own kids were thrilled.

My cat has been in kitty heaven with me being home the last few days. Right now as I type and sneeze and wipe off the screen and sneeze and type, he is walking under and between my feet and meowing. Yesterday he watched most of two movies with me, and he probably got more out of them than I did. I am pretty wiped out.

I have some pictures of the cruise which I ought to put on the internet. Maybe someday I'll get around to it.

Not much else going on, at the moment. I always say I'll write more later, but I probably won't. Oh well.

I'll write more later.

May already

I just archived April, which was another boring blog month. Another boring blog month... I haven't blogged very much since I got out of law school. Which makes sense, in a way, as I mostly started it as a way to deal with the stress of law school. When you're mostly unsupervised, and there are few actual demands on your time, it's easy to blog a lot. Which is what often happened. Now, I'm closely supervised (which sucks), I have far too many demands on my time and very little free time, and I don't have the mental energy to do much other than work. In law school it made sense to blast out an entry every morning when I got to the library. Now, I am pretty much on the go whenever I arrive.

I waver constantly between sticking with the job I have and quitting to go somewhere pleasant to work. So far, sticking seems to be winning. I promised to stay there for two years, and I'm intending, at the moment, to fulfill that promise. At two years plus one day, anything goes.

I asked for a raise quite a while ago, and haven't heard anything. I think I'm going to ask again, and demand that whatever pitiful increase I get be made retroactive to when I originally asked.

It's May, already. The temperature here is hovering around 50 or 60, and the days are over 17 hours long. Totally bizarre.

Gotta go. Just ran out of things to say.