Before I disengage myself from these memories of Chicago, allow me the luxury of one more.  Friday night my father and I went to a concert at a church near their soon to be sold condo.  It was a sm...

Went to Chicago this weekend to visit my folks.  I do miss Chicago, though I could never move back.  Its alot of fun, and the people are good.  You have to break through the ‘city gaze’ to talk to ...

We had the Agnus Dei sent from Chicago to Scottsdale.  Its a gorgeous sculpture given to my parents from the artist Jean Tock years ago. I’ve always loved it; a modern piece of a boy holding a lamb...

I want a martini.  I’m blogging about it because one of my new years resolutions was to blog more.  But I actually have something to say here which I call the death of the dry martini. Originally,...

I think I can go on a limb and say that the major part of a system administrator’s job is caring for configuration files.  (Warning, what follows is a rant.) You add a new user?  Modify the /etc/p...

The specter of pestilence made an early appearance at the Wolpert household this season.  Not only was everyone in this house infected, but also the Kellys and surrounding relatives.  People at wor...

It was a very good day today.

An interesting couple of days this week at work.  Wed started with me talking to one of the admins at work first thing in the morning.  When I got to his cubical, he was very busy with two guys at ...