Category: Life 2004
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Oh the Mundanity!
Oh the mundanity of it. It’s time for my annual vacation at home: that indulgent time off that starts a couple days before Christmas and ends after the New Year. During this time I am not just off, but I am off. I spend my days doing nothing much and reveling in it. Altogether it […]
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Grateful
It is Christmas Eve: my favorite day of the year. Christmas is always something of a let down. As a child nothing received on Christmas could meet my wild expectations on Christmas Eve. So Christmas Eve is for me a day full of boundless expectation, wonder and hope. It doesn’t hurt that the whole Christmas […]
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Two Years of Blogging – A Status Report
It will be exactly two years ago tomorrow that I created my first blog entry. So it’s time to do a little meta-blogging about Occam’s Razor. Here are some statistics. – I have written 268 blog entries to date. I average 2.72 days between blog entries. Hey, life keeps me busy! – But when I […]
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Six Figures Ain’t What It Used To Be
Sometimes life’s milestones go almost unnoticed. In filling out the paperwork for my car loan this week and totaling up my income I discovered that my income alone was now just barely in the six figure range. So why don’t I feel richer? I always figured that if I were making this kind of money […]
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The Slimy, Icky Business of Car Buying
The last straw was when the air conditioner went out. I was fifty miles out of Raleigh heading back to my Northern Virginia home when the compressor died. If it had been a good day it would have been no big deal. But it was a hot and sticky day and it was interstate driving […]
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A Lesson in Leadership
Management is a blessing and a curse. I’ve experienced a lot of the downside of management recently. Perhaps that is why it was such a pleasure to experience the upside this week. To be fair I shouldn’t have much to complain about. My employees, geographically scattered though they may be, are all terrific. Each gives […]
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Blog Makeover, Part Two
Notice anything new around here? Same (I hope) quality content but a newer and better look. This time though I didn’t even bother to try to redesign my site by myself. I have almost zero skills in artistic design. Fortunately I found someone whose site I greatly admired who agreed to makeover my blog for […]
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Taking Care of Business
It’s one thing to go to work to work. It’s another thing to go to work to work. This week was a week where my team and I had to put our noses to the grindstone. Separated by geography (I have three employees here in Reston, one in Alaska, one in Oregon and one in […]
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Purple Pill Time
What was it? Was I more stressed out at work than normal? Did I get it from hitting the chili in the cafeteria a little too often? Did my appetite for Caesar salad become excessive? Perhaps I can blame the South Beach Diet? I am eating quite a bit differently than I was: a whole […]
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Covenanted
When you live in cyberspace can you find real community? Does having with a network of friends online amount to the same thing as a network of friends in real life? For the last few years I have been puzzling over these thoughts. I have been wondering if my family’s social life has become too […]
Occam's Razor 