My alma mater is returning to the NCAA tournament after 35 years!! I love this quote: “Here we are, little old Niagara, looking like Duke.” USA Today

Spring is here! It is going to be back in the 70’s the next couple of days, and the daffodils are out. I saw them on the way into work this morning. Great running weather has returned!

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Last weekend, Stacey and I went to see the Aviator for my birthday. I have been waiting to see this movie for a while now and am glad that I finally got the chance to see it! I thought that the movie was well acted, but seemed a bit long. I really enjoy aviation so […]

It all started very innocently yesterday. It was supposed to be a cold day (for NC) with highs in the 20’s and a chance of flurries. No accumulation was forecast. Yeah, I know…flurries! So what, you say? Well, that’s what I was thinking until yesterday afternoon. The supposed flurries arrived just before noon. The problem […]

Ripley, our new cat, is now home with us (well, sort of – he is currently quarantined in the guest bathroom)! We picked him up from Second Chance Pet Adoptions here in Raleigh earlier this week. He is very affectionate and never stops purring! Tasha is not yet a fan, but I think that’s primarily […]

I found out this weekend when traveling to NY that my name appears on the one of the TSA’s “lists”, the “Selectee List”. Although this is not as bad as being on the full fledged “No Fly List”, it means that my boarding pass will be stamped with a special “S”, or Scarlet Letter upon […]

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope that everyone is ready for 2005 and had a great holiday season! Is it summer already? It has been unusually warm here in Raleigh for the past week and is expected to reamin this way throughout the 10 day extended forecast. What is unusually warm? How about 75-80 […]

Happy holidays, everyone! I hope that everyone is enjoying this time of year. Stacey and I had a great Christmas with our almost-human cat, Tasha. We even had a bit of snow in Raleigh on December 26! What’s next? Well, it looks like it is going to be 70 degrees on New Year’s Day. What […]

For all those that have wanted an in-depth background on foo, here is all you need to know… foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used […]