joel's thoughts

As in the former hurricane, not my cousin… 🙂 Glancing through the Weather Channel’s slide show of images from Hurricane Jeanne’s effects on Florida and Georgia, I came across this picture of a guy checking out a damaged house. The caption reads: Sun., Sept. 26: Braving high winds, Troy Taynton, of Satellite Beach, Fla, checks […]

This is the third beautiful day we’ve had in a row, with a few more reportedly on the way. A bit chilly in the morning, but the sky is just the right shade of blue with only a few wispy clouds; they weren’t even there yesterday. Just incredible. Not to mention, a stark contrast to […]

Wow. Three and a half months without a post. I think part of the problem was something Jenn noticed too: it felt like the longer I went between postings, the more…I don’t know, impressive my post would have to be once I actually made one. Whatever. Here I am, still alive and having all manner […]

So, I’m poking around Heather’s blog, following links to other folks’ sites, and Kevin tells me to: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Okay, but this gets tricky. You see, […]

Not much going on lately. I felt like I should post something so you didn’t think I’ve been spending an entire month grieving over my cat :P. I still miss her, but Katie and Keesha have been keeping my litterbox-cleaning skills from fading out ;). They’re cute, and they’re fun, but they’re teenagers, and not […]

Goodbye, my friend. You are sorely missed.

The building where I work is directly under one of the landing approach paths for Dulles airport, and my cube is next to a window looking north such that planes on approach suddenly materialize over my head and gradually get smaller on their way to the runway. I see a pretty wide range of planes […]

I can see the headlines now: NATION’S CAPITAL BROUGHT TO STANDSTILL BY 1/8″ SNOWFALL Absolutely crazy. This time, though, I can’t blame it on people who just don’t know how to drive in snow. The roads really were pretty bad, particularly in the neighborhoods. It’s been below freezing at night for most of the past […]

Well, here we are in December already, and I’m just now getting to posting something. I bought this domain back in February of 2001, got hosting space for it in February of this year (2003), and set up the blog software (Movable Type) in April. But I never started posting because I wanted to tweak […]

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