Blog archives for January, 2003

Today was a strange day. For the past several weeks, I have been putting in extra hours at work due to a major deadline (yesterday afternoon). I finished my work and went home last night. The weather man kept talking about snow (which often means we won’t get any) so I went to bed expecting to head back to the office today. Instead, we got enough snow that by 7:30, my company had decided to close for the day. Schools were out as well so the entire family stayed home today. All day I felt like I should be doing something. We shoveled the drive, cleaned off the cars, built a fire, caught up on our TiVo watching, but no “work” work. Its almost like withdrawal. I’m sure I’ll get over it — we will likely go back to work tomorrow and things will settle back into their normal routine. Only then will I being wishing that I didn’t have to go to work!

This has to be one of the coldest, snowiest, winters that I can remember. We’ve now had the Ice Storm of 2002, a dusting of snow last Friday, freezing rain/snow yesterday and talk about more tonight. The high has been in the 30′s many days this month with lows in the 10′s-20′s more common than not. Last weekend, I saw the ducks WALKING across the pond near my house — this is not Minnesota where this happens all the time. I’ll bet it is El Nino and Global Warming ganging up to confuse the weather men.

For whatever reason, yesterday I typed “Virgil Sealy” into Google’s image search page and guess what I found — myself! I’m not sure why it surprised me (after all I did the search in the first place and I was the one that put the image in the web!) but it did. I then searched for other people I knew and could not find many except for those other people in my band. I know that some folks don’t like their images in public places but it has never bothered me. In fact, I find it very useful to be able to picture folks that I communicate remotely with. Maybe that says something about the way I think or relate with folks. Even at work, there are folks that don’t want their badge photo’s displayed on the internal (for employee’s only) web site. I find it hard to connect names to people without also connecting their image to the same thought. Anyway, now my photo is on the web, along with a google of others.

I read a number of blogs (Pat’s, Bob’s, Greg’s, Jen’s, etc.) and I’ve noticed a trend over the past few months. Silence. Given that I’ve only posted twice in the past 2 months myself, I’m one to talk. But, it is getting worse. Jen has decided to give up posting completely. I hope that trend does not continue. In order to shame/challenge/prod those around me to continue to post, I will try to do better (my theme for the year). My posts won’t be great literature, but they will speak to where I am and what I’m doing. They may only be one line or 1/2 a novel but I will try to post more days a week than I skip. The gauntlet has been thrown.

Most people at least think about resolving to do something different for a new year. Like others, I tend to examine my life and figure out if there are things that need to be fixed: loose weight, be more time effective, spend more time with family, write more, read more, exercise more, etc. This year I never came up with any one thing that I would resolve to do. I entered the year with a general feeling that I need to do a better job at almost everything that I do but could not find one detail that outshone the others. Therefore, I hereby resolve to do better. Or at least try.