Monthly Archives: February 2006

Consolation Prize

Hey again, kids. Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted. Hope you haven’t missed my sterling prose too much. I’ve been working on a nice long recap of Anne’s and my Yellowstone snowmobiling adventure, and I was planning to post it tonight, but…

There’s always a “but” when computers are involved, isn’t there? In this case, the “but” refers to the way I somehow lost three-quarters of the entry when I tried to e-mail the part I wrote at work this afternoon to myself so I could finish it tonight here at home. I’m hoping I can recover it tomorrow when I get into the office. If I can’t, I’m going to be a very unhappy blogger, because I thought what I’d done was quite good. For a change. I haven’t been terribly proud of my recent writing here at Simple Tricks; this entry, however, seemed to be going very well.

In any event, I’m long overdue to give you guys something — I’m surprised my three loyal readers aren’t banging their tin cups against the bars by this time — but about all I have to give you tonight is another of those e-mail survey thingies that occasionally makes a circle of the ‘net. You know, those long lists of random questions that try to elicit trivial responses. It’s kind of lame, I know, but it’s quick content, and you may learn something interesting about moi. Hopefully, I’ll find my travel piece waiting for me tomorrow and I’ll be able to finish it and get it up to you before tomorrow night. In the meantime, enjoy the trivia…

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Still Alive

Hey, kids, just thought I’d drop by and let my three loyal readers know that I did not end up as moose-fodder last weekend, as you may be imagining based on the lack of activity here. Anne and I returned safely from Yellowstone on Sunday night, following two days of driving on snow-packed roads in a mid-size four-door and one day of zipping through a snow-packed forest wonderland on a snowmobile. Since I got home, however, my employers have done their best to discourage me from ever taking another day off by chaining me to my desk, fitting me with a catheter and a feeding tube, and burying me in paper. (I think I prefer the nice, peaceful drifts of snow I saw in Montana to the drifts of former tree-pulp that are accumulating around my desk…)

I do have traveler’s tales to tell, it’s just a matter of how soon I’ll be able to escape from the office and put them down on paper. Er, on screen. Whatever… just keep checking back, I’ll have something about the trip soon…

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