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“The Tax Man Cometh”

Posted on April 15, 2003 By Tom No Comments on “The Tax Man Cometh”
Rants

…and taketh away. Being a couple of DINKS with no reasonable deductions, we had to fork out ‘way too much to help finance George Jr.’s experiment in empire building. (So much for the political career.) So, as I fume about giving the feds so much, we just finalized plans for the new deck and hot … Read More ““The Tax Man Cometh”” »

The Dough

Posted on April 12, 2003 By Tom No Comments on The Dough
EdTech

Cool Website. I saw this one at a conference a couple of years ago. Some guy was showing it as an example of how Flash could be used. I had forgotten about it, but stumbled across it just recently. I’d love to be able to do something like this. X_Dude’s “The Dough”

Mid-Life Hits Hard

Posted on April 10, 2003 By Tom No Comments on Mid-Life Hits Hard
Miscellaneous

It snowed today. Here. In upstate South Carolina. On April 10. I wonder what portents this doth signify. This was Founders Week at Furman, and it was a week for me to wallow in mid-life crises. A couple of my classmates returned to Furman to speak. Karen Foreman spoke at convocation on Wednesday. She at … Read More “Mid-Life Hits Hard” »

Glynda is bored

Posted on April 5, 2003 By Tom No Comments on Glynda is bored
Miscellaneous

My sister Glynda called last night to tell me she was bored. Two weeks ago she was in England for an Oxford Round Table discussion, last week she had two Welsh punk rockers staying at her house, Tom Brokow wants to do a story on her school, and next week some guy is bringing race … Read More “Glynda is bored” »

Why an online journal?

Posted on April 4, 2003 By Tom No Comments on Why an online journal?
Miscellaneous

I’ve kept several journals over the years. My most thorough was the journal I kept while in Europe one summer. I also kept detailed journals of at least part of our year in Arizona. Every now and then I pull those out, and I’m glad I kept detailed notes, but such documentation takes time. I … Read More “Why an online journal?” »

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