Yesterday I went to my second football game. Ever. The first was an Australian Rules Football game where the Geelong Cats played the Carlton Blues. I don’t remember the game itself, except that the Cats won. What I do remember where the fans, the songs and the general sense of friendliness and camaraderie. Yesterday’s game …
Category Archives: About me
I Blew It
I am very good at contingency planning. I knew it would be difficult to post to my blog while I was traveling, so I wrote posts ahead of time and scheduled their postings. What I didn’t anticipate was how seemingly typical days could get away from me from time to time. That is what happened …
Going Up to Eleven
My father used to take me on the famous Carousel at Coney Island. As the carousel went around the people on the outside horses could grab rings from a mechanical arm. If you were lucky enough to get the brass ring, you would get a free ride. I remember being small enough that my father …
Brain Fuzz
I did eventually make it home late Monday night. I had a 7:30 am meeting Tuesday morning, which wasn’t too bad because my body was still on Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). I was even able to be productive the remainder of the morning. But, my brain was pretty gooey by the time 2:30 pm came …
The Tech Whisperer Unplugged
I have been reading a lot about how networks are trying to capture people, like myself, who have “unplugged” themselves from traditional sources of television. I can easily remember the last time I watched broadcast TV. It was Thanksgiving 2012, right after I bought a digital antenna last November so we could watch Macy’s Thanksgiving …
Games People Play
Yesterday my mother suggested that I play Othello with my father. Her suggestion brought a whole flood of memories with it. I used to play games with my father all of the time. My father insisted that he would only play “thinking” games with me. So, Parcheesi, Othello and Boggle were in. Hungry, Hungry Hippos …
Price Points
Manhattan is not a very family-friendly city for anyone but the wealthy. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know that everything in Manhattan is over-priced. Stores sell groceries in small packages because both they and their customers have limited shelf space. The small sizes used to run the same as the larger family-sized …
A Bittersweet Memory
This weekend marked the 4th anniversary of the closing of CubeSpace. The anniversary was very sweetly noted by Rick Turoczy on Facebook. I mention that specifically because this is the first year since we closed that I was not acutely aware of the anniversary. This is also the first year that I can think about …
Don't Call Me Shirley
Yesterday, I spent yet another day of my life hanging out in airports and being squashed in airplanes. Given the amount of traveling I have been doing, I have established a bit of a routine. The day begins way too early for any sane person. The trip to the airport is always a bleary-eyed affair. …
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match
One of the ways I spend my spare time is serving on nonprofit boards of directors. It’s something I started doing when I was a recent college graduate. At the time, I had no idea what being a board member meant or what responsibilities came with it. But the nonprofit sector intrigued me enough to …