mike’s place

After a way-too-long work week last week (clocked in at 68 hours), I managed to get a lot of sleep over the weekend. Feeling much better now. Last week Nixon and I lost most of our foosball matches to Joe and Nicholas. I attribute much of that to my sucky play due to the lack [...]

Well, DJ’s surprise birthday party went off without any (major) hitches yesterday.
The yoga class didn’t end until about 16:15, and I didn’t get a chance to call home with the “we’re on our way” message until about 16:25. By this time, people had already been ‘hiding’ for some time. They had been expecting the call [...]

I also picked up a copy of OmniPage Pro X, an OCR package from ScanSoft. Despite having a “Built for Mac OS X” label on the software, it will not install unless you have OS 9 installed on your system. What a load! It’s ReturnsVille for this one. Grrrrr. Arrrrgh.

Less than 24 hours to the surprise party for DJ. No, she doesn’t know about this site. At this point, no one, other than me, does.
We have a ‘couples’ yoga class tomorrow from 13:00 to 16:00. When we get home, there will be approximately 20 people in the house to yell “Surprise!” and [...]

DJ’s (aka da wife) big birthday is two days away, on February 4th. I’m still trying to determine what to do. I’m thinking dinner at Caesar’s. The chateaubriand for two is delicious. I’ve already purchased her presents, and I’m working on a way to ‘confuse’ her with the packaging. Yes, I am a little shit.
The [...]

I used to have a weblog, long before ‘blogs’ were popular. I lost it in a re-install of my server operating system when I didn’t back up the DOCROOT. Oops! Oh well, that was a long time ago. I had a few minutes of spare time this morning, and instead of doing truly useful things, [...]