About ten years ago, at a more bad than good job, I met Brent. We were never close friends, but I traveled and worked with him enough to get to know him a bit. Brent was, and is, an imposing fellow. I’d guess he’s 6’3″ and perhaps 240 lbs., but not at all overweight—just a … Read more
I was pushing hard to finish a project at work tonight. I doubted that I could put it all the way to bed before I left, but if possible, I wanted to face just housekeeping (cleaning up unused files, that kind of thing) when I went in tomorrow morning. Well, it didn’t work out that … Read more
I had a particularly delicious bowl of pho with Melanie today, thereby inaugurating 2009 as the seventh different calendar year in which we’ve enjoyed Viet Huong together. Burned out on Vietnamese food? Who, us? Not yet. I threatened to tell a story on her today, and I don’t think she believed me, so here goes. … Read more