August 2006 Twenty-four posts

• 27-Aug-2006
  Today at Mass Remember by affirmation of the day the other week, it’s in a song that was the closer at Mass today. It’s from Psalms 118:24 It’s not one I hear every week, it was a nice surprise after having missed Mass several weeks in a row. Felt like a “welcome back” message. That’s a stretch, but...
• 25-Aug-2006
  Large Decisions Afoot Seriously. It’s all good.
• 25-Aug-2006
  LIKE (Transact-SQL) LIKE (Transact-SQL) I really had no idea you could use [brackets] the way you can in a SQL Server “LIKE” clause. You learn something new every day.
• 24-Aug-2006
  Phrase of the Day The plural of ‘anecdote’ is not ‘data’
• 24-Aug-2006
  She’s Back YAY! … and safely and everything. What a relief to have her home. Today: we have the kids, I have work.  Yesterday I finished listening to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase. A HH radio series I had not before heard. Some very good belly laughs in there. I got it, like many...
• 23-Aug-2006
  Library, Home Depot, Fry’s There might not be a more perfect on-the-way-home sequence. Oh, yes there is, just add, “Leah meets me for dinner and we see a movie.” Not today though. Leah’s on her way home from Utah now. Victorville or thereabouts. It can’t be too soon! Ta!
• 23-Aug-2006
  Scene from Greyhound Bus Station, Los Angeles, Monday, 4:30am I tell the cabbie “Union Station.” It’s a solid 2 miles. Too far a walk for how tired I am, and not really convenient on local buses. “I hate Mayor Villarigosa” declares the cabbie at the Bus Station. “Because he made the FlyAway service, and nobody takes cabs to the airport anymore.” “Well, don’t you...

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• 22-Aug-2006
  Busing or Bussing? As of a matter of fact, Sunday night I did in fact take a Greyhound Bus from Southern Utah to Los Angeles. It was an adventure. I took Metrolink too. Remind me to tell you about it all sometime! Off to work! It’s alright mama, It’s alright with me.
• 19-Aug-2006
  Bathroom Singing Par Excellance Very Zen » Oh Boy. Amanda B. singing, partly for my very own wife. Darn good for some random singing in a bathroom. Clearly, she’s done that before.
• 18-Aug-2006
  Now Playing Night Of The Living Baseheads Very little music is more vital than Public Enemy from “It takes a nation of millions to hold us back.”