It’s Monday night here in rural Douglas County, and I’m here to take a few moments and drop off a little note to the future. Today I started one of the most interesting and challenging classes of my career. I have a total of twelve students. That in itself isn’t the most challenging part. I’ve …
April 2018 archive
Apr 29
Day 19,947
It’s been a Sunday here in rural Douglas County, kids, and the old folks are at home. Tomorrow I return to the comfortable confines of Centriq Training, prepared to teach the basics of Microsoft Azure Cloud services. Around here, it’s been a day of mowing and weed remediation, with a little bit of bug repellent …
Apr 28
Day 19,946
Not having the best of days, so I’m going to crank this out and head back to bed. This morning while I was sitting at breakfast, I felt the “slip”. I went from having a pretty normal day to having a painful late morning, afternoon and evening. Something moved in my back, and I’ve been …
Apr 27
Day 19,945
OK, it’s Friday in rural Douglas County, and the old man is trying to crank out two hundred words in the span of about fifteen minutes, then it’s off to the shower to get ready for an honors banquet for the Self Fellows, of which my eldest daughter is a part. Went into Micro Center …
Apr 26
Day 19,944
It’s Thursday night now. I am a little worried. My big computer isn’t coming on. Something popped when I hit the power button. This is not good. I’ll have to run it into the computer shop and have them look at it. I do hate being without one of my primary systems, especially that beat …
Apr 25
Day 19,943
Seems the earlier I get my daily blog entry done, the more I can enjoy the rest of the day. I get up in the morning, and, as part of trying to create new habits (better habits), I get into my routine. My routine is pretty basic, and I’m getting better at making certain aspects of …
Apr 24
Day 19,942
Ah, the news… I sometimes love reading the news of the day, diving into stories about heroism, people standing up for what’s right, folks coming together for a good cause. Today, there’s still a little bit of that, but I’m still taken aback at the volume of abject crap that some people mistake for legitimate news. …
Apr 23
Day 19,941
Coming at you live from Leawood today, friends. I took a look at all of the stuff Lisa and I have going on after work this week, and it was pretty easy to see that it would be quite appropriate for me to crank out my blog entries during the work day while my students …
Apr 22
Day 19,940
OK, it’s Sunday night here in rural Douglas County. Dane and I got a bit of an early start today, heading over to Topeka to resume a longtime campaign with some friends. When I was Dane’s age, I was introduced to the game Dungeons and Dragons by my younger brother’s baseball coach. I had seen …
Apr 21
Day 19,939
Hey, gang, it’s been a long day here in rural Douglas County. Lots of stuff going on, and I’m glad things have wound down so I can get back to just being grumpy old curmudgeonly me. Gracie had some friends over today as part of her first meeting of the “Future Grandparents of America” club. They …