OmniBlog

I realize that my blog has been suffering a slow death right from the beginning. Part of the problem has certainly been that I have never been entirely clear of purpose regarding my intentions for this virtual address. I suppose a part of it has been to provide a place for my friends to be able to find me should they desire to reach out and stay in touch with me. Occasionally I even try to post some pertinent details of my life that should any of them decide to look me up here, they might find what I have been up to (in the at least somewhat recent past). I am not sure that I have ever sought to target an audience beyond that, and could frankly care less what anyone might think of me, this site or my writing. But even writing for friends and family, how much detail is too much for such an open forum has always concerned me a bit. Perhaps that is part of the reason I post so infrequently. Certainly some of it has also been the general busyness of life. When you work in IT sometimes the last thing you want to do is to log onto a computer to update your blog.

So why am I here right now then, blogging on my holiday week-end? Well, Sabrina has started a new PhD program, and thus has this new HP Laptop. At the moment I am downloading and installing the software for our printer. It’s a pretty slick little machine I must admit, and not too pricey either. It has a built in web cam, thus the photo above. It should be noted that those windows in the background are crystal clear thanks to my hard work this morning ;0) So now that she has Skype installed and a built in web cam, we should be setting up some video conferences with her cousins in Hungary sometime soon. The idea of which has inspired me a bit that I should be purchasing a web cam for our desktop sometime in the not too distant future. It’s about time we got on-board with this technology as it is certainly more fun than just talking to those you love on the phone!

okay, I apologize for not posting since Superweek. Things have been pretty busy around here. Last week-end I was home for my 20 yr high school reunion as Bandick alluded to in comments on my last post. Well, I have been through the photo albums and it seems the only photo I am in I am not identified.

Which is strange as I know the Jeni took a picture of me. Maybe it didn’t come out well.

turned out to be vacation week for me. Too bad I am not racing this year Still, it was good to see from friends out from LA and to have some cyclists hanging about the place. Gave me a reason to ride downtown via the lake shore cycling path (not something I do very often).

It also gave me a chance to meet a couple of my new teammates. Jamiel is pictured above and below with Aram, and Marcus (not pictured) is my new German friend.