Forty

Well, it’s here. Although technically, I wasn’t born until the middle of the afternoon on March 27, 1972, legally, I turned forty as of midnight and have thus been so for nearly eight hours. How were those eight hours? Well… About two of them were spent sleeping. When I wasn’t sleeping, I was being kicked [...]

The very last day of the good thirties

I’ve got about 16 hours of my thirties left and that seems rather momentous to me. I can clearly remember my friends and coworkers in the Santa Monica office throwing me a little party ten years ago as I forever left my twenties behind.  And here I am on the cusp of doing the same [...]

A morning of home improvements

Last weekend, the faucet in our kitchen sink came loose. I tried to repair it using plumbers putty, followed by Gorilla Glue. Either solution worked. At the same time, we’d had a slow leak from the faucet in our master bathroom. I decided to take care of both problems this weekend. We live within walking [...]

Approaching 40: I was brought to my senses

After graduation, I moved back to my parent’s house. They lived in Northridge, California, but the earthquake earlier that year had forced them out of their house and into a rental nearby while their house was repaired.  I worked most of that summer of that summer doing computer work for the dorm cafeteria at UC [...]

Approaching 40: I’ll remember

Sometime in the spring of 1994, the last semester of senior year at college, me and a bunch of friends headed over to the local theater one evening to catch the film With Honors. I knew nothing about the movie going in, but it ultimately dealt with college kids (at Harvard, I believe) and at [...]

Approaching 40: Lost for words

Senior year in college zoomed by. I was playing catch-up, taking extra classes in order to make up for some of the slower semesters in my sophomore year. I took 16 units first quarter of senior year, 20 units second quarter, and, with special permission from the Dean, 24 units my last quarter. I was [...]

Approaching 40: Try not to breathe

My first two years in college were a kind of on-the-job training at independence. I wasn’t very focused on the actual classes in my sophomore year and my grades suffered to some extent because of that. In the summer that followed my sophomore year, however, my and two friends got an apartment just off campus. [...]

Approaching 40: Mercy street

In between all of the classes and the work in the dorm cafeteria that freshman year at UCR, there was some occasional recreating. The first fraternity party to which I ventured was a KA party somewhere just off campus. My roommate drove there and there were three or four of us in his car. Out [...]

Approaching 40: All this time

When I think of the early part of my freshman year at college, there is only one album that comes to mind: Sting’s The Soul Cages. In June of 1990, I graduated from high school. After graduation there was a big party at one of my friend’s houses and even one of our well-liked teachers [...]

Approaching 40: Hold on to the night

The Cleveland Humanities Magnet class of 1990′s class song was Richard Marx’s “Hold On To the Night.” I had nothing to do with the choice. But the song does remind me of senior prom and that leads into the topic of school dances. Since that dance way back in seventh grade, I was never a [...]

Approaching 40: What It Takes

During my senior year in high school, I went to my first concert. I wasn’t as good as I am today at keeping track of things back then. But the concert had to take place on either March 3, 5, or 6. That’s when Aerosmith played at the Great Western Forum as part of their [...]

10 days of personal analytics data

Last week I wrote about how I was impressed by Stephen Wolfram’s article on personal analytics. I provided some stats on my work-related email analytics. But Wolfram’s article impressed me so much that I have started collecting additional personal analytics data, including steps, using a FitBit activity monitor, and keystrokes using some keylogging software. Both [...]

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