Whose Faulty Vision

Rockies

The Rocky Mountains are beautiful. Pity I won’t have any time to spend in them.

Poem: Stray Cat

Stray Cat
by Francis Witham

Oh, what unhappy twist of fate
Has brought you homeless to my gate?
The gate where once another stood
To beg for shelter, warmth and food
For from that day I ceased to be
The master of my destiny.

While he, with purr and velvet paw
Became within my house the law.
He scratched the furniture and shed
And claimed the middle of my bed.

He ruled in arrogance and pride
And broke my heart the day he died.
So if you really think, oh Cat,
I’d willingly relive all that
Because you come forlorn and thin,
Well…don’t just stand there…come on in!

Link: Ohio State Rock Song

The bill declaring “Hang On Sloopy” to be the official rock song of Ohio made me laugh out loud. I particularly like this part:

WHEREAS, If fans of jazz, country-and-western, classical, Hawaiian and polka music think those styles also should be recognized by the state, then by golly, they can push their own resolution just like we’re doing.

First Class-ish

The good news is, the kind folks at Delta gave me a free upgrade to first class for the flights to and from Atlanta, because I’m a Gold Medallion member.

The bad news is, I’m on the plane now, waiting for takeoff, and there’s a screaming baby in first class with me. Rather spoils the experience.

3000!

This is my 3,000th post to this blog!

3,000 posts, more than 7 years. It’s really a fixture of my life. I’ve relied on it sometimes to vent my feelings, and it’s nice to have somewhere I can always go and ramble.

So here’s to 3,000 more.

Business Travel

Holy crap.

I’m going down to Atlanta tomorrow for two days of focus groups on the new account that I mentioned previously. That’s not a big deal.

But then, next week, I’m traveling for both accounts that I work on, as follows: Monday in Denver, Tuesday in Vancouver, Wednesday and Thursday in Orlando, and back to NYC Thursday night. I haven’t worked out the details yet, but I think I’m going to have to take a redeye from Vancouver to Orlando to make that possible, which I’m not at all looking forward to.

And then, the weekend after all of that crazy travel is Otherworld, so I’ll be in Connecticut for the weekend.

It’s going to be a crazy week.

Open letter to seemingly everybody who stops by my office

Please don’t touch my computer screen. You leave smeary fingerprints on it, and then stuff on my computer looks blurry until I clean it off. Do you do this on your own computer? If so, how do you put up with everything looking blurry?

Sorry, just had to get that off of my chest.