I don’t really have words to describe my reaction to the images and stories coming from New Orleans and the other places where the hurricane laid waste to the puny works of man. I am a little worried, however, for a client who called yesterday. He started off by inquiring about corporate/temporary housing, because it turns out he thinks his house in a small Louisiana town is “gone.” Then he told me that he hasn’t heard from his son since the day of the storm, and the last piece of advice that he gave him was to take the chainsaw…
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So here's what's going on this week around here: Busy at work, but not as crazed as last week. Thinking about sick friends and considering how best to help Keeping only half an eye on the news Fooling around with iPod more (David got me a dock!) Putting off on uploading more photos to Flickr Getting ready to travel again Real Soon (just a weekender) Realizing that there's not a lot of time left Playing catch-up in nearly every area of my life Now that the Weekend of Crazed Running Around is over, I can finally say something about what…
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Anglican Communion News Service>[ENS] In response to the United States’ proposed revisions to UN poverty-reduction strategies – as reported in today’s More info: Accessing the NY Times archive through their RSS feeds.New York Times and Washington Post – the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, issued the following statement: “I am deeply troubled by reports today that the United States has proposed revisions to UN global-poverty-reduction strategies that would undermine international commitments and partnerships already at work in the developing world. The Administration’s sudden opposition to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the…
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WXRT Radio Chicago – On-Air Personality Bios – Lin Brehmer On my way in this morning, I was listening to Lin Brehmer on WXRT and caught the tail end of his show. For some reason, Terri Hemmert was attempting to lure him back into the studio from the window ledge. All very funny, but there was an undercurrent of something that sounded like Management was screwing around with the talent. I have no idea if this was just silly morning schtick, or if Lin’s been let go, because I missed all but the last 5 minutes. The “bumper” song to…
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The concert was awesome. This picture can’t really do them justice, especially with the bad backlighting, so I’m hoping that David’s pictures came out better with the good camera. This time in addition to their usual sort of repertoire, they played one original piece by trumpeter Bobby Thorpe, a compostion on September 11th. It was a really accomplished and moving piece; you can hear influences from the age of Baroque to the age of Jazz. They report they’ll have a new CD out soon – I was urging them to see if their new management can get them up on…
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Tickets: $12.00 senior/students/advance, $15.00 at the door. Synergy’s concert at Holy Moly is today at 4pm – the musicians will arrive some hours before that and I have a few errands to run and chores to do after church. It’s going to be an exhausting but fun day, and I’m really curious to see how many people turn up after my various attempts to get the word out. I was listening to their CDs “Transmissions” and “Baroque and Renaissance” last night and was struck again at the high quality of their musicianship – it’s exciting to be able to host…
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This is Ginny’s brain, not on drugs, at the end of the work day and on the way to Holy Moly to do some emergency cleaning. As you can see, she is not a happy camper. This was the scene yesterday as I drove away (finally) from work after a long frustrating day trying to keep up with about 4 different accounts’ worth of niggling little problems, ticketing errors, questions, last-minute hotel group changes, and a couple of things that I can’t even categorize except that I now know that I had the information I so badly needed at the…
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Okay, this photo has been making the rounds of the Net; I spotted it at BB: Now, all of the news items I’ve seen (and oddly, though it’s an AP photo, it’s kind of hard to find) are from “blue-stater” sites, so they’re all trumpeting how the loveable old battle-hardened codgers were sitting on their hands and not clapping for the Prez while he blathered on repeating the 9-1-1 mantra (did you know that September 11th was the opening salvo in our war on terrorism? I did not know that). Anyway, the gentleman in the photo is identified as Bill…
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Hey, it’s late summer! Time for a good story about a guy on a bulldozer going on a rampage, like this one: Man Charged With Drunken Bulldozer Ride – Yahoo! News Last June, a man went on a tear through a small Colorado town because he was pissed off at local government. Remember, friends don’t let friends drive bulldozers.
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It always amuses me no end when I’m going through the error queues and come across a record where someone is carrying on an argument in the quality control remarks. In this case, someone was trying to get the quality control program to package up some paper tickets and send them to the address in the reservation. As the packaging people are known to read the quality control remarks, the agent thought they had to send the record to the QC program for the packagers to “see” the updated remarks. This is not the case, however. Only the faithful computer…