Archive for January, 2007

many of these trees were my friends…

Yesterday EMI Music, the company I work for, restructured and layed off 20% of it’s North American workforce. Crap. There’s no good way to say that. In Nashville we lost almost 30 people in our company of 200. I feel like Treebeard, one of the Ents from Lord Of The Rings, when he stumbles out [ READ MORE ]

night at the alley

Ah yes… Saturday night we all piled into the car and headed down to the local bowling alley to roll a few rocks. Good times. In truth I’ve never been that great of a bowler. I always feel very accomplished when I break 100, and topping out at 125 the other night made me feel [ READ MORE ]

eye phone

On Tuesday our favorite company whose name begins with Apple announced the debut of their highly anticpated iPhone, a “trademarked” name which has since come under fire in a lawsuit filed by Cisco yesterday… but I digress. So the iPhone. Say what you want about Apple, Macs, and such, but this is one heck of [ READ MORE ]

if this is winter, i want a refund

This is ridiculous. It’s January 5th and 64 degrees outside. Normally I would blow it off as, “this is Nashville… it’s warm all year here.” And it generally is, and I deal with it, and whatever. But for the love of pete, I was back home in Minnesota for a week and a half over [ READ MORE ]

3,491

3,491: This is the number of miles driven in the last 12 days. 58: This is the number of hours driven in the last 12 days. We do this to ourselves every year. I don’t know why we have chosen to live so far away from every stinking member of our family. From Nashville to [ READ MORE ]