The weekend before Thanksgiving, 1994, Lea and I were invited to a dinner party that was something beyond jeans and let’s have a burping contest, but not quite all the way to taffeta and a rousing discussion of 19th century French poetry. We had been dating a grand total of five weeks, so we weren’t … Read more
Last year Nathan got interested in radio control cars, and said interest happened to coincide with a good time for him to get a little surprise. So we went to Toys “R” Us and found a cool silver and black Dodge Magnum that plays music, lights the wheels up with blue LEDs, and has working … Read more
Just about everybody has stayed up all night at least once. But about twelve years ago, I pulled exactly 74 waking hours in a row: from 6:30 Tuesday morning to 8:30 Friday morning. Someone who was leaving the company had grossly understated the amount of work remaining on a large software manual. She had been … Read more