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  • Write Everyday

    March 19, 2004

    I’m listening to Rewind today, I have to remember to download this as an MP3. They just spent an hour getting callers to say what they are doing today. Very cool. Today is the first day of …

  • Exploding Deals on MP3 Players!

    March 16, 2004

    Today, I had an MP3 player explode in my hand. I had been charging it in my office and it got so hot that the metal case actually cracked open. I picked it up and brought it over to someone to show …

  • Home Again, Home Again...Jiggity Jig

    March 1, 2004

    We came home to Spring. Flowers are now popping up all over, and there’s still some sunlight in the sky when I come home on the 5:30 ferry. This is good news of a very high order. This gives me …

  • Keep On Top of the Water!

    February 23, 2004

    On Saturday, Wendy and I almost drowned in the Carribean Sea. Maybe we weren’t in as much danger and it seemed, but we had to signal for help from some of the other hotel guests, who came out to …

  • There is No “I” in “Team”

    February 16, 2004

    I am feeling much, much better than I had been. Last week, I was at the PMA trade show after stressing out about content for my store for about a week and a half before hand. The early part of last …

  • Signifying Monkey

    February 15, 2004

    I’m sitting on the ferry, crossing the sound during a dark, beautiful sunset. A family next to me has a young boy who is rambunctuous. He looks out the window and annonces that he wants to …

  • This Shark, Swallow You Whole

    February 9, 2004

    I’m coming into work a little late right now because I was up working until 3 a.m. I missed the 8:40 ferry, so Wendy and I went to Pegasus coffee and talked. I said that I felt like the job is …

  • Open Letter Never Sent

    December 13, 2003

    We had a nice visit today from David and Kazuko, their daughter Kaia, and David’s parents. It is the first time that someone from work has visited my house since we moved in over two years ago. …

  • Autonomous Reactor

    September 19, 2003

    I’m flying down to Burbank to be best man in Ted’s wedding. I have had little of it on my mind, though, since work has been a fucking nightmare lately, and I have no one to blame but …

  • Pity Poor Alfie

    September 9, 2003

    I’m so sad today, this weekend. Everyone has to be sometime, but I’m so frequently happy and on top of the world that when it comes, it’s a crushing blow. We went through a beautiful …

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