Monthly Archives: October 2005

Regret and Tennyson

Were it not better to forget
Than but remember and regret
– Letitia Elizabth Landon, Despondency
Last Saturday, I helped Jeff grill up burgers and dogs for Amy’s birthday bash, but I wasn’t able to stay long without the cat hair causing my lungs to explode. I bid everyone adieu, and then headed over to the Granades’, [...]

Contingency, Contingency, Contingency

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
– Publilius Syrus, Maxim 469
[Allow me a brief moment to geek for my first use of my copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. ... Okay, I'm done.]

Today, I was asked to generate a few charts describing our sustaining engineering efforts at work. For those [...]

Wise Inconsistencies

I could write another post talking about not posting right now, but that’s not fair, is it?
I honestly don’t know what to tell you right now: there’s a lot that I’d like to say, but I’m being sensitive [perhaps overly so] about a lot of things right now. I know, I know—I’m usually the [...]