Visiting

I’ve been visiting Ma and Pa for the last couple nights, slowly updating their B&W G3, Tacaño, to Mac OS X 10.2.3 and dropping in various updates to this program or that. In particular, I think they’re going to dig Safari since it will let them browse...

Dave and I

Dave came over last night which buoyed my spirits considerably. As some of you may know, a couple weeks ago he hit some black ice on a trip to Sisters, Oregon and rolled his big red Jeep Cherokee several times. Other than a stiff neck, he was fine, but the Jeep was...

The time is right…

The time is right for marching in the streets, but I find myself terribly reluctant to travel that path again. Today, anti-war activists around the world are issuing their pleas for peace to a Bush administration that seems bent on attacking Iraq regardless of what UN...

A busy few weeks

It’s been a busy few days this week. I’ve been trying to get caught up from being away for so long, and it’s slow going. Even after a few days straight of trying to get things put away, reading through my backlog of newspapers, and updating things in...

A pleasant stay

After a very pleasant stay with the Lillys (thank you!), I left Los Altos this morning and endured the tedium of the 11.5 hour trip back to Salem. It was wholly uneventful, a phrase which only begins to suggest the level of boredom I faced. I was very happy to return...