Archive for May 2006

So THAT’s more than a little…

Yep. So, I went down to the grave to see for myself how things lie. And, well, sure enough, there’s a bit of backbone exposed and a small hole. If by “a bit”, you mean 38 or 40 inches of vary large vertebrae arching across the edge of a hole and if by “small” you […]

Just a *LITTLE* bone showing…

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Buried Him in the Garden.

The boys and Andi came home around noon thirty. We told them about Tooppy and wow – kids are really resilient. Tallis, our four year old, understand what’s going on and we all went down back to where Tupelo was resting on his old blanket on the lawn. Tallis and Luca petted his fur, looked […]

Toopy died.

Yep. A little over an hour ago, I came home to pick up Tupelo and take him to the vet to find out why he’s been acting so strangely the last 48 hours or so. Andi had let him stay out on the back lawn and when I went out to find him, he was […]

Birthday Boys.

Happy Sunday all. Tallis is four today. Luca was two on the 12th. We had a party for the two of them yesterday and it was great fun: Grammy and Mada were up from Plymouth and brought Granmma Pat. Julie and Ryan from Tallis’ school came with their families. We had the Reynolds and Shinlingers […]

MRTG, RRDTool and One minute polling all over again…

SO long ago it’s lost in the fog of burnt neurons, I made MRTG do one-minute polling and now I have to do it again….. ugh…

Bits from my day today.

Spent most of the day doing invoices. That’s kind of fun, actually. I keep detailed records of my time at client sites and it’s fun to go back over them when I build the invoices – see where I was when. It’s a sort of work diary. Had a great lunch at the Bagel Basement […]

Hah. Just realized the other day that I was actually laid off back in November. Weird. I mean, like, I knew that I was no longer with the company that had folded, that I was working on my own, that Andi and I had put together a small consulting firm to freelance my tech skills. […]