I got my electric bill today. We've had hot Summers before in Texas, but I can't recall ever seeing an electric bill this high. I g...

The big news of the day has to be the 500 point drop in the market. I sold some things; held on to some other things; and bought an inverse ...

Now that I'm writing a lot about watches, I've started noticing that there are other watch writers out there. Some of these folks se...

When I was out and about today, I passed a large city truck with the words "flood control" and the city of Dallas logo on the door...

I heard that it got up to 108 degrees outside today. I wouldn't doubt it. When I took the dogs on their evening walk, it felt like we we...

I needed to take Janet to the airport a lot earlier than we anticipated because the online reservation system wouldn't assign her a seat...

I was doing some video editing today and discovered, much to my chagrin, that my little laptop is much better suited for this task than my l...

One one hand, it was a perfectly normal doctor's visit. On the other hand, it was a perfectly normal client meeting. I'm still getti...

I went to a video editing seminar today. I'm not actually editing anything right now, but I enjoy hanging out with other editors and com...

Do you ever have days where you feel slightly out of place, no matter what you do? I went to another of those business networking breakfast...

Here's a little irony for you. I think I lost the translation job I've been telling you about as the result of a translation problem...

Early this morning, I took Janet up to pick up a loaner car while her car was in the shop and then went and got gas for my own car. My tank ...

Dash did a lot better on his first solo trip to the dog park than I thought he would. He whined a bit, but was really no worse than he usual...

Dot and Janet left earlier in the day for a dog show in Houston with their friends Willow, Pat and Ann. Dash and I stayed behind to eat froz...

I got another business inquiry from LinkedIn. Things certainly have changed. Business relationships used to be nurtured over a long lunch. N...

The water bill is going to be horrendous this month. I turn on the sprinklers and then I keep forgetting to turn them off again. Maybe it...

I took a big new batch of employee pictures at one of my clients offices today. I was really pleased that they are starting to take this a l...

I spent quite a while on the phone this morning explaining what a browser cache was to a client who kept insisting that I hadn't done th...

I did my regular quarterly re-balancing with my financial adviser today. This is a lot harder than it used to be. I've come to realize t...

Dot and Dash got a bath today, I got a few more people added to my Google+ circles, and we all made our regular pilgrimage to the Wagging Ta...