Not dead. Busy. And I sort of fell out of the habit. So, here’s what I’ve been up to since April: Lots of work on BigHugeLabs.com Bought a pet rat ($7) and accoutrements ($92) for the kids. Ripped up the weed jungle that my backyard had become and planted Dutch Clover instead of grass. Coming [...]

1 bottle of meclizine hydrochloride motion sickness pills 1 receipt for Ruby’s in Redondo Beach 1 work order for flat tire repair from Sears, directions to same 1 resume 1 pair of destroyed Rayban sunglasses Every Winter, for the past five or six years, we’ve gone on a whale watching cruise with family and friends [...]

The doorbell rings but I’m not sure I heard it. I lean back in my chair, straining my hearing towards the hallway, and listen. I hear small feet running to the front of the house. “Who is it?” My son’s voice echoes up the stairs and through the hall. No answer. He knows exactly what [...]

One of the occupational hazards of being a geeky self-employed entrepreneur who runs his own servers is that I am my own IT department. And that means sometimes I am awakened early in the morning by an urgent message from one of my servers. And after it’s fixed I often crawl back into bed. And [...]

Wife: So far, I washed the car, ran errands, and picked up The Boy. What did you do today? Me: Not much. You did a lot this morning, though. Wife: Oh, you do way more than me. Me: Pfft! I don’t do anything. You’re the one with three jobs. Wife: But what you do brings [...]

As I hinted at earlier, I’m on my own this month. The Lovely and Talented Wife (LATW) is on day 12 of a 26 day world tour with stops in Seattle, Calgary, Denver, and other exotic locales. She’s in beautiful Calgary today. OK, so maybe it’s not exactly a world tour. But they are driving [...]

This Joel on Software article (of Fog Creek Software) got me thinking about this a while ago and Web Worker Daily reminded me again today. Maybe I just had a string of bad experiences, but I honestly don’t think I’ll ever want to re-enter the traditional workforce. When I was much younger—in high school and [...]

First of all, I’m not addicted to the internet—it’s my job. But I’m probably online over 12 hours per day, every day. When you’re online that much, you become accustomed to the rhythms and cycles of the internet just like you do the rhythms of any other “workplace.” When I worked in an office, Fridays [...]

I just posted this at Flickr but I thought ya’ll might be interested, too: So, way back in August, I hinted that something big was going on at the fd house. Well, It’s been a very, extremely busy few months (has it only been three months?) but I’m in a much better position now to [...]

I was laid-off Monday. That’s PC for “we’ve run out of money and/or work because we’ve over-hired and/or under-sold so we’re firing a shitload of you all at once to desperately try to stay in business a little longer.” Funny that I make my first (and last) post about my job only after I lose [...]