A few years ago, my dad was laid off from IBM, where he’d been working for more than 25 years. Two weeks ago, he quit his job at a local small-business tech-support place. Last week, my mom told IBM she was retiring at the end of February. Their plan? Finish the (until last week, somewhat [...]
It’s one my few yearly traditions to check the list of movies nominated for Oscars and see how many of them I’ve seen through the year. I never do very well, not because I usually see crappy movies, but more because I usually don’t see very many movies. The 80th Annual Academy Awards nominees were [...]
For the past two years, I’ve posted my reading list for the year as well as ratings and brief reviews for each book. This year, I’m going to do it a little different. If you review my old lists (2005, 2006 part 1 part 2), you’ll notice that it gets hard to describe unremarkable books [...]