Category: Life, Universe, Everything

  • Repeat Offender

    This post comes to you from Delta Flight 276 from Tokyo-Narita to Detroit. I didn’t start my day in Tokyo, and I’m not ending it in Detroit. This is just part of my path home from a week in Taipei … … but after week I’m heading back to the airport to do it all…

  • Dora the Workout Explorer

    If I were a homebound parent I would probably use this space to complain about the drivel that passes for children’s programming. Brightly colored nonsense masquerading as toy commercials, talking sponges and educational characters with televisions embedded in their digestive tracts.

  • It’s that time again

    It’s that time again

    This blog is just over ten years old. That means it’s time once again to think about September 11, 2011. It’s easy to remember how I felt watching everything from my hotel room in Tokyo, because I wrote about it.

  • Thinking on my feet

    Thinking on my feet

    Working from home is a good excuse to change many of my daily habits. The ones I’m tackling first apply to not only when I work, but what posture I’m using during work. In short, I’m trying to stand up most of the day.

  • Gainfully Unemployed

    The past week has been a bit odd for me, since it’s the first time in 15 years that I’ve been unemployed. It’s a temporary condition until I start at Intel on Monday, but I have avoided being a slacker during my “week off”. The goal this week has been forward momentum, making as much…

  • Leveling Up

    Leveling Up

    So after fifteen years at the same company, here’s a phrase I didn’t expect to be uttering anytime soon … Friday is my last day at AMI.