My buddy Charlie unexpectedly left us yesterday, and I’m grieving.

Had a surprise storm blow through town last night and preliminary reports look like a funnel formed over my neighborhood and really tore things up as it moved through. All’s well here, but there’s lots of cleanup to be done in Athens.

Took advantage of a slow time at work to disconnect and take the kids to explore the geography, people, and history of the Low Country. We did an awful lot in four days, but mostly we ate seafood.

As a consultant, my work engagements are always short-lived. It’s both a good and bad thing about the job. Now, one project has ended and I’m catching up on odds and ends before starting another.

I got one of those smart bird feeders last year and I love all the bird photos but the squirrels tried to eat it. Not the birdseed but the feeder itself. I spent some of my sick days splicing cables and replacing parts and now all is well.

Covid finally caught me and I had to stop doing lots of things I enjoyed for a while, including recording this very podcast. But I’m back at it. Hi!

I’ve got dough living in my fridge. I keep pulling chunks out and seeing what sorts of things I can make with it, and it has yet to let me down.

I can walk up the street to a new Publix, and their deli tempts me to spend way too much. Oooh – it’s five dollar sushi day!

Spent several days in North Florida and had a surprisingly good time, including picking pristine fossils up right off the ground.

It’s a hard time to be a small fish in the big pond that is the tech industry. We’re circling the wagons and all the other metaphors to weather the storm.