I’ve been waiting for a new electric fan to arrive. I checked in on the shipment today, and the UPS site reports:
07/26/2006 5:30 A.M. THE PACKAGE IS DELAYED DUE TO EMERGENCY CONDITIONS BEYOND UPS’ CONTROL
On the retailer’s site, this state is [...]
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It doesn’t look like I’ll be packing away the downspout extensions or the portable sump anytime soon…
It’s Sun’s U.S. manufacturing shutdown, so I’m getting caught up on reading and household repairs. In addition to last week’s work reading, I read two other business/investing books:
Jeffrey Zygmont’s The VC Way, which was interesting (but didn’t live up to its subtitle). Mostly structured stories about venture capital, and its role in the [...]
Now that the Shuttle system appears unsalvagable—no activity, even with a nice fresh BIOS chip—I suppose I should record the emergency server rebuild from a few weeks ago. On Saturday, Dina noticed she wasn’t getting any email. We had houseguests, so I didn’t slip out to Central Computer until Sunday, with a plan [...]
Nathaniel and Benjamin have been trading an ear infection back and forth for the past few weeks, and Nathaniel also looks like he caught the stomach bug that had been prowling through his class at daycare. (But Ben never developed chicken pox, so that’s one positive.)
I finally decided that the colds and allergies were [...]
Every so often we have a summer so bad all we can do is try to ride it out until things start to change. This has been one of those summers. In addition to the death of my father, three days before the birth of our son, we have also had what we thought [...]
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