Phil’s Filings

Coughing’s really bad, and my voice sounds like I chainsmoked 24 packs of cigarettes a day for 20 years.

Saw this in my Inbox this morning:
Subject: [CodeProject] Daily News - Cobra language slithering to open source
I immediately thought of GI JOE.

As I sit here and think about turning a year older, I realized something.  I accomplished two goals over the past 365 days, goals that I had set up for myself — not necessarily since my birthday, but for the year of 2007.
One of them was pretty material — I wanted to go to a [...]

Was it only a week ago that I was in warm, sunny weather?
Today, we got hit with at least 15 inches of snow.
And there’s more snow in the forecast for pretty much every day over the next 10.
Oh, yay.

A month or so ago, my mind was wandering, and then I suddenly started thinking about a girl I used to know.  Her name was Rachael, and she worked at the same Dairy Queen that I did.  All in all, we worked together maybe a year or so.  I’ll admit, I thought she was cute, [...]

The lack of sleep on the cruise caught up to me.  I’m sick.  Bleah. 

I lost 2 pounds while on the cruise.  You know, the cruise — that place where food is everywhere and I ate a bit more than I normally do (compensating with extra insulin).
I know I gained weight when I was unable to do much with my sprained ankle.  Did I really walk that much on [...]

Wow.
Just… wow.
The warm water.  The brilliant colors.  The peacefulness.
Man, diving around here in the cold, murky lakes and quarries is going suck a bit more after this….

Holy crap, what an awesome time!  I wish I was still on the boat, but if I have to not be there, it’s good to be home.
I wasn’t able to update my blog daily as I had thought, but I did compose a picture of the day blog with my camera phone for each day [...]

32/366 - Aftermath of the Jam Session

Originally uploaded by SkyJammer

Only got 2 hours of sleep. Oy. (Originally composed on 02/01/08)