category archive: friends

bowled them over!

My bowling team met its fund-raising goal and won the bet we’d made with The Ball Busters, another team from around the office. I rolled a 113 the first game and a 115 the second — pretty consistent, right? Thanks again to those of you who donated!

from the super-cool new products dept…

The amazing TrekPod is on sale now &#8212 everybody go buy ten of these things immediately. It’s a combination hiking staff and tripod, plus it’s got a really cool magentic-mounting system to make it even easier to use than your crappy old tripod. You need one and must buy one right now…

feeling charitable?

Hey, I know everyone’s all tapped out on charity after making their tsunami relief contributions, but if you can spare an extra buck or two, please consider supporting my team in a bowl-a-thon for Big Brothers Big Sisters. I’ll be participating in this event on 25 February with some great co-workers. There’s a secure online […]

snippets

Bunker needled me a little on the phone earlier for never writing anything here anymore… I just can’t believe how fast the days are flying by since I started my new job and, of course, since we learned of the pregnancy. Life is certainly hectic but happy in the extreme. Someday soon I’ll sit down […]

hooray

Been away from the blog for awhile, but the past few weeks have been productive. Among other things, I’ve… Laid out my travel plans for CK’s wedding in Rhode Island next month; painted our shutters a nice burgundy color to replace the hideous baby blue that they were; helped the brother-in-law to move into a […]

just like old times

I water-skied today. Yeah, it’s late November, but the weather’s been beautiful all week and Mike realized it was probably our last chance for 2003, so he and Shannon hauled me out to Decker Lake in east Austin and we had a go. It was really windy, so the water was ludicrously rough. I managed […]