Monthly Archives: October 2000

Everything’s coming together nicely on the site. More graphical finetuning from my son Collin over the weekend. I got a CGI script for a “recommend this page to a friend” feature. Got HTML email working. And I began opening up … Continue reading →

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd titled her Oct 25 column Boys Going Batty. She noted the “testosterone moment” in the World Series when Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens threw a piece of Mets catcher Mike Piazza’s broken bat at him … Continue reading →

Essay: Scoring Points. Cashing in. The art of scoring points with a woman escaped me for much of my marriage. My dad’s philosophy seemed to be that a guy was just supposed to be his own man and if the … Continue reading →

My son Collin whipped up a new RJ logo and banner last night. In about five minutes. I like it a lot. It’s amazing to me that someone could do something like that so quick. My design skills are zilch. … Continue reading →

Last night I installed a mailing list software package called Subscribe Me Pro on the Real Joe server. It initially seemed foolish to spend $300 on this when there are plenty of list packages out there for free that do … Continue reading →

I got a notice from Kent Nerburn’s email list that he’s got the first chapter of his new book up on his site, tentatively titled, Road Angels: Driving on the Edge of the American Dream. It’s evidently the new version … Continue reading →

Yesterday, Robbie and I had lunch at Pepitos with a bunch of people we worked with thirty years ago at St. Joseph’s Home for Children in south Minneapolis. It was my first job (child care worker) after college… and it … Continue reading →

I spend a good chunk of the weekend redesigning the structure of the website, and getting rid of all the stuff that’s not likely to be ready by the time I ‘soft-launch’ the site early in November. I also tried … Continue reading →

Essay: A Little SOS Goes a Long Way It’s taken me too long to figure out that a Shot of Solitude (SOS) several times a week is a damn good tool for all things head-related. I’ve known for a while … Continue reading →

Robbie and I got back from the New England Gamma Knife Center in Rhode Island two weeks ago where she went for treatment for her non-cancerous brain tumor. Each day (for five days) she had a series of gamma knife … Continue reading →