Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
I had dinner tonight with my friend Cath Lewis, the awesome real estate agent. She told me that her new company felt right because honesty and empathy were at the top of their values. I think most of us aspire to those, but it was lovely to see ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
I found this list on the web and loved it. The ones that particularly rang true with me:
5. Being not truthful always works against me.
8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
9. Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.
15. ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I'll be in San Diego for ETech, arriving in San Diego on Sunday and leaving on Thursday. If you'll be around, look me up. I'd love to catch up!
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
About two weeks ago, my uncle Zom got a little carried away with some repairs in the cabin and drove the family fishing boat ("Foam") onto some rocks. Getting it off damaged the propeller and keel, so ten days ago he and I took advantage of the time, tide, ...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
I haven't blogged in a while. That doesn't mean things are bad. In fact, it's the complete opposite. Something happened around September, the end of my last trip away for 2006--something good. We just clicked. We went from feeling like strangers in a strange land to ...
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
Before I left for my last trip to the US, I went to a school board meeting where a program called Super Kids was discussed. It's a kids Christian program that wanted to use the House Of Learning (aka "library") at our local primary school after school hours. ...
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Great news! The house in Colorado is under contract, they inspect tomorrow morning, and then hopefully it's smooth sailing to closure. This is it: if it falls through, I'm renting it out. But if it sells (even if for much less than we were hoping to get) it's ...
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Great news! The house in Colorado is under contract, they inspect tomorrow morning, and then hopefully it's smooth sailing to closure. This is it: if it falls through, I'm renting it out. But if it sells (even if for much less than we were hoping to get) ...
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Back in New Zealand after nearly three months away. What a lot of culture shock there was, both in leaving and returning. Leaving: it's so easy to return to the US, yet so hard. The traffic was incredible: it takes as long for us to get from ...
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
In the past month or more I've been working hard on making sure William had a good experience at school. I talked to his teachers to make sure that they were keeping their eyes open for bullying (and to ensure that they knew I had very high standards for ...
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