Updates

Yeah, yeah... I've been slack in posting to my blog. To say that I've been busy would be a GROSS understatement!

I usually tell folks, "I'm busy, but it's all good." Truth is, it hasn't been ALL good. Dealing with the poor health of a loved one can be very taxing. Realizing that you have over-committed yourself to a worthy cause can be downright exhausting. Trying to deal with natural disasters and your own personal procrastination can be nerve racking. Doing it all while working 50+ hours a week is next to impossible. But having a supportive and loving significant other, a strong network of friends, and a great family can help pull you through.

Last week, I had my quarterly visit to my doctor to check on my health conditions. Because I'm an engineer (left-brained and all that), I have - from day 1 - kept all of my records in Excel, and give my doctor nice, colorful graphs of my daily measurements since the last visit. It was interesting to look at the results from the past quarter and see that the really bad measurements completely coincided with external influences. I've already made some changes to my schedule and commitments, so hopefully things will improve.

In the mean time, I hope to get back into blogging. Maybe I can do better!

Ahhhh

After the chaos and craziness of the past few weeks, it's nice to just
sit and relax. We're on the deck if the cabin at Cedar Creek,
listening to the birds chirp and the water rush over the rocks.

Day Trip

Before we start the DC tourist adventure, we're heading into the
Shenandoah Valley for a day at my sister's mountain cabin at Cedar
Creek. We stopped for lunch at a rustic inn called Wayside Inn. GREAT
lunch buffet!

East-bound...

Brevard and I are headed to DC for a week of vacation. Thought I would
try out the new in-flight wifi on Delta.

I'm still around!

Yeah, I know. I've been blagging lately. And it's not for lack of stuff going on - believe me! It's more like a lack of free time. See, I'm guilty of usually writing my blog entries from work (guilty! Check the time stamps!), and for the past 4 or 5 weeks, I've been knee-deep in a couple of projects that have had some pretty hard deadlines and loads of work to be done. So my work-day mind has been very-well occupied, not leaving much time for blog posts 'n stuff.

I'm sure all of you are anxious to hear all the details about my new girlfriend. Probably won't happen here. And not because I don't want to share, but because I would rather you meet her in person and learn all about her for yourself. And if I'm going to write anything gushy and mushy about her, it's going to be in a private note just for her, not for eleventy-billion people to see.

So, fair reader, don't fret. I have lots of Observations (as opposed to "Just A Few...) that need to be documented, and in due time I will be back to slacking at my desk and filling your screen.

Have a GREAT weekend!

It's Not As Bad As I Thought

Whew! I took this all-important, all-knowing survey, and only scored 10 points. Which puts me in line with the likes of James Dean (yeah, right).

http://i.gizmodo.com/5142331/gsat-the-geek-social-aptitude-test

Although, I might should have scored double-points for the question about using your phone in restaurants (reference my last blog entry below, and multiple photos on Dianne's flickr page showing me doing just that).

Hope your week is going well...

Geeeeeek

I'm sitting at Chick-fil-a on Howell Mill Road eating dinner. There's
a big group of Tech students here. Listening to their conversations, I
have to ask myself, "Dear God, was I *this* much of a geek???"

Hrmmm... I'm sending an e-mail to my blog from my iPhone. Guess I just
answered that question.

Reality check can be painful....

Sent from my iPhone