There and Back Again

Pondering: Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I had a very good morning walk today. To think, I started late; typically, I walk at 7:30 a.m. and be back at home around 8:15 a.m. but today I left the house at 8:00 a.m. As soon as I left [...]

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Pondering: No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. (Lily Tomlin)
Today I finished this huge salary survey project I’ve had hovering above me for almost four months now. It’s a grueling project of research, making calls, revising work plans because no one was providing me with the information I needed, [...]

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Pondering: There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
If Jane Austen were alive, the movie Becoming Jane would have surely killed her. This has got to be the worst period romance movie, to date. I give it a million yawns and constant gagging. It is a collage [...]

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Pondering: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws. (Douglas Adams)
Webber Back With Warriors After 13 Years
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Chris Webber has returned to the Golden State Warriors and coach Don Nelson, more than 13 years after a battle between [...]

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Pondering: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)
I went to my first management retreat today where we talked about the sacrifices we’ll have to make in order to respond to our agency’s [...]

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Pondering: Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. (Suzanne Necker)
Another holiday over, another year starting. Always makes me sad to realize that I’ll have to get through 335-odd some days until the next yuletide season comes around. I love the holidays. I totally hate the start of a new year.
This year is going to [...]

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Listening to: Shiver (Coldplay)
Pondering: Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain)
In 1973:

Henry A. Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the cease-fire with North Vietnam.
America’s involvement with the Vietnam War ended.
The Supreme Court made a decision on Roe vs. Wade, [...]

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Listening to: All These Things That I’ve Done (The Killers)
Pondering: When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. (George Bernard Shaw)
Another year, another visit to Las Vegas and another conference over. Every year, I thank one of our system vendors for hosting their conference in Las Vegas and thereby giving [...]

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Listening to: Halo (Depeche Mode)
Pondering: Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. (Pearl S. Buck)
Yesterday I interviewed for a job and I left the interview room feeling totally drained and defeated. I don’t ever want to feel that way again.
Today I found out [...]

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Listening to: Satellites Lost (The Delays)
Pondering: In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Today I took a day off and I did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! I popped open my laptop and disappeared into the World Wide Web for the rest of [...]

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