My wife and I just concluded four days of bliss in a little cabin on Elk Lake, in New York’s Adirondack Park. No cell coverage, no wi-fi, no real connection with the outside world–well, we did get one Yankees game score from the office, courtesy of their satellite link, but that was our single episode [...]
Archives for Personal Stuff
This is for posts related to Spinny and/or people around him.
Saying Good-bye to Jerry
This past Wednesday was our literal Funeral for a Friend, as we bid our final farewells. The funeral itself was, in my opinion, the best possible sort: brief and focused. I’m not a fan of ceremony for ceremony’s sake. A few of us spoke of Jerry, how we’ll remember him and what he meant to [...]
Cancer Sucks
No shit, right? Who doesn’t know someone it’s taken? It took a friend today, and the hurt’s still raw, and there’s nothing really to do about it but get over it. Eventually. Jerry was a great guy. The harder you broke his balls the better he liked you for it, and he had a million [...]
Golf and Me
I suppose it’s safe to say I’m a golf addict. In fact, one of the major reasons I started this blog was to give myself a place where I could blather on about the game. I play in two leagues (though only one of them is a “formal” one) which means I average at least [...]
Is this thing on?
So here is the not-really-obligatory first blog post. I’m not going to get into a lot of blather about me–not yet, at any rate. I’m still wrapped up in the throes of getting this thing on line, getting it integrated into my other web pages, and geeky stuff like that. Once the dust settles I [...]
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