Evening in the Office This evening, I returned home and straight back into the office. We are slowly putting together our home office, full of all the amenities that two workaholic yuppies could desire. We both have plenty of desk space and we plan on decorating to reinforce the particular gung ho which has facilitated successful careers. The walls […]
New House We just settled on a new house and have been in the process of cleaning and doing repairs. Firstly, I want to acknowledge my darling wife, Lisa, for being the point-person for much of the home-buying process. Also, she’s done the majority of the cleaning–she’s an incredible wife and partner!Anyway, we installed a new mailbox […]
Nephew Our nephew came today to spend the week. He's a well-behaved baby of almost a year. I made him cry twice by scolding him. He insists on stuffing things into his mouth. I'm not sure I would mind if I were his parent, but since they mind, I am trying to prevent such behavior. I […]
On Goings MBA classes have continued with a steady pace. I have been trying to find time to keep up with the textbook and while I have set a good pace with statistics, I am behind in economics. The teacher is somewhat dry and likes to amuse himself with little stories. I don’t mean to sound critical–I’m […]
Back to School It’s back to school time for kids again, back to lectures, books, and teachers dirty looks. I must be a kid again, because I’m going back to school too! This is the second week of the fall term, and two weeks into my graduate degree. I’m taking a Statistics class and an Economics class this […]
How Has Marriage Changed My Life? A lot of people I’ve been running into have been asking me how my life has changed since I’ve been married. In fact, just yesterday Lisa and I were at Minado’s in Norristown celebrating Rob Swander’s birthday, when Becky Lee asked me how the married life has been thus far.In asking the question, it seems […]
Thanksgiving! Another Thanksgiving has passed with tidings of joy and love. I am grateful for the time I have with Lisa, each extra day we share together. At times, life seems so utterly short to me–so much so that I strive to breathe in every second. However, when I hold Lisa in my arms, inhaling her […]
Travel Arrangements Yesterday, the (future) wife and I went shopping at Montgomery Mall. Aside from a few personal items, articles of clothing and other luxuries, we also got a few travel brochures. We stopped to eat an almond pretzel from Auntie Anne’s and flip through them. After looking through the Asia brochure, we thought about whether we […]
Away I’m on the twenty-ninth floor of the Ramada New Yorker two blocks from Penn Station in midtown Manhattan. There’s no central-air here (only one of those air conditioners you stick out of a window), and the room feels historic–as if it hasn’t changed since before I was born. The comforter bears a floral design of […]
3 Reasons To Get Married I know some people may wonder why Lisa and I, yet so young, have decided to get married. These people may be even more amazed when we tell them that we wanted to get married last year, but waited for family reasons. For me, the decision to get married was a simple one, and there […]
Delegation of Destiny I admit that there is a small resentment. It steals from my id, some feral beast out of the frontier, slipping passed the more deliberate, refined elements of my persona. Tied in matrimony, it’s natural to give the whole of your being to your spouse, but what miniscule fraction of me not tied to Lisa’s […]
Here are some final updates on my life before this blog is closed, for those few who are interested and don’t feel like asking personally I graduated Drexel University on June 11, 2005. The commencement began at around 9:00 AM and was nothing special. I now have a BS in Computer Science and minor in […]
Here’s to a Decade of Streaming Audio! Introduced by Real Networks in 1995, streaming audio has become ubiquitous in the United States if not the rest of industrialized world. Millions of people nationwide now enjoy free (as in beer, not speech) internet radio through applications such as Winamp and RealPlayer (for the sake of brevity, I’ll omit mention of VoIP save this […]
