OK, so we lost the softball game. With one game left we are guaranteed second, and there is a slim chance at 1st. Basically, we would have to win our last game and then have the team that beat us lose two. That isn't gonna happen.
May 2006 Archives
Tomorrow we will play for all the marbles in softball. Our team has one loss, the team we will play tomorrow has one loss. The winner will be crowned the softball champion of for the Spring Season.
Man I sure hop my pitching is up to snuff and my bat is hot.
Computers Die. Computers die a lot. Bad motherboards in laptops, screwed up device drivers, melted power supplies. It is a wonder that companies keep their computers running that are vital to their business.
For this very reason I keep spares around, and make lots of back-ups.
I also find it valuable for a company of most any size to have a guru on staff or have a good relationship with a reputable computer consultant (not a one-man operation with too many clients).
Companies with their own in house guru's should show the proper care and feeding of their guru by letting them buy cool toys, have the best computer in the office and let them go to nice out of town geeky events. (hint, hint)
I have now garnered the second comment on my Blog. My aren't I burning up the world. Maybe I can make 5 cents from some google ads.
I have decided I am getting a little older. What tells me this? My body. Playing softball is great, but I seem to ache a little more after each game. Not so much I am laid out on the couch for days, but enough to feel a tight for a day or two. I would suspect that being a bit overweight and out of shape would have something to do with it too.
By the way, we won again. 7 and 1.
Personal blogs are interesting things.
I have an old pastor friend (I guess it is former pastor now) who runs a blog called ourgreenroom. I also have a cousin that runs a blog or two and many a friend from College who do the same.
So what is my observation? For the tech savvy, blogs have replaced the "Christmas Card Family Newsletter." When I get the feeling to troll the blogs of my friends and family (for those without RSS feeds) I generally learn something new, provided they actually took the time to blog.
Now some may say that personal blogging is the domain of MySpace, but MySpace is a sensory overloaded kitschy Jr. High romper-room. Full of advertisment laden "My sexual animal is X blog profile polls" and tricked out animated gifs that are cool the first hundred times you see them, but not the subsequent 10,000. And for heaven's sake, a flashing black background with cartruse text makes normal people sick as they try and read your entries.
In the advertising world this is known as all package and no substance.
Leave the gimmicks for the carnival rip-off games, create with style, grace, form and function... not noise.
