Author Archive
Puppy!
We didn’t take nearly enough photos of Sasha as a puppy, but this one has to be from the first day or two. If you look close you can see she’s wearing a pink collar. Two things.
1. Our dog is not a pink dog, girl or no girl thankyouverymuch.
2. Our dog doesn’t wear a collar except when she has to.
So yeah, this must be from riiiiiiight when we brought her home. What a puddin’.
…with a dose of happy dog.
Puppy!
…wherein our hero abandons his family for a weekend of culture.
This is opening weekend for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and as I’ve done for … er, 3 years now?.. I’m heading down as a member of the press to take in every play. Yes, in the internet age literally anyone can be a member of the press. Unlike last year, where the season was choc-a-bloc with let’s-call-them fan favorites (Hamlet! Cat on a Hot Tin Roof! Pride and Prejudice!), this year’s season .. well, isn’t. This doesn’t mean that I expect the plays to be any less engaging, it’s more that I’m still very much a theater neophyte so I don’t know what I’m getting myself into.
The four plays I’m seeing are:
…wherein our hero tells you what a difference a year makes.
Baby's First Trade Show
In February of 2010, a look at my work calendar would have revealed a weekly meeting with a company executive (whose exact title is cause for internecine war, so I’ll leave it be), the monthly staff meeting, and not much else. I’d meet with the owner of the company on an ad hoc basis, and otherwise go about my business; that business being the reading of gigantic amounts of news stories and press releases looking for situations where my company might find work. In June of 2010, said company owner spoke in Atlanta at a conference concerning the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. On a lark, we put together a few banners and a fancy new brochure and I went along to exhibit trade-show style.
Well.
That seemed to go pretty well; I met a lot of attorneys who do work that we’d be useful in, and also ran into attorneys that we already sort of knew. Turns out this second thing is really important, because short-term memory is apparently being bred out of humanity so we need to be reminded of the existence of others on a regular basis. In any case, going to that one little conference led to me going to a great big conference in Vancouver, B.C. in July. At that conference, I met a bunch of other lawyers, and came up with a gigantic business idea, and generated some actual business… you may see where this is going. I went to a couple more conferences in 2010, and they all followed the same pattern: meet a few attorneys, refresh the memory of a few other attorneys, bring in some business for the firm.
Hi there – been a long time, I know. God Bless Lisa, she asked me when we put this site up if I was going to participate or if I was going to leave her hanging. Well, I told her “A” and have been doing “B” for months and apparently she still loves me. Part of my particular brain damage is I feel like I owe a post on X subject and since I haven’t written it I get that guilty, late-for-work feeling and then it snowballs and blah blah blah . . . anyway, here are a few posts I’m just going to wave bye-bye to:
* Terry and I had a racquetball rematch. He won again, and I pulled a hammy, but I just can’t find the energy to make it funny this time.
* We went to Sumter for Christmas. We had a really great time, but it’s not like we took safari photos. It was a pretty quiet week chatting with my folks and soaking in small-ish town life (although Sumter isn’t that small anymore).
* Anybody who’s seen me in the last, oh, decade, knows I could stand to lose… ah, let’s call it a metric fuck-ton and leave it at that. I will not discuss diet or exercise again, but early signs are that I am, in fact, actually taking it seriously this time. Check back in October.
So what am I going to talk about? Well, after the Seahawks beat the heavily-favored New Orleans Saints a couple weeks ago, my mom thought “I should call John and see if got to watch the game.” Unfortunately I couldn’t take the call, because I did watch the game. I was there.