{"id":267,"date":"2007-10-11T00:31:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T04:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/267"},"modified":"2007-10-11T00:56:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T04:56:48","slug":"whats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/whats-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Going On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My posts have been few and far between lately.  It isn&#8217;t that I stopped having opinions, but that I haven&#8217;t had the time or organization to put them together.  How about a life update instead?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As you know, <a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/259\">Grandpa died<\/a> in August.  The world goes on, of course, but differently than before.    There&#8217;s stress and uncertainty about Grandma living alone, about the house, etc. that causes stress for his children, and then his grandchildren.  This isn&#8217;t a new story; I&#8217;m sure you all know what I&#8217;m talking about.  That doesn&#8217;t make it any easier.  I continue to think about the care he received, and the questions aren&#8217;t going away.  The hospital promised to look into it.  I&#8217;m waiting to hear what they say.  And I miss him.<\/li>\n<li>I really really really <em>really <\/em>want to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikedoughty.com\/show_dates\/\">Mike Doughty in November<\/a>, but the tickets sold out in less than 2 minutes.  If you have tickets you&#8217;re selling, drop me an email.  I&#8217;m paying a lot &#8211; $50?  $100?  Name it.<\/li>\n<li>Work.  During conversation, it&#8217;s normal for friends to ask &#8220;And how is work going?&#8221;  For weeks I had been saying &#8220;It&#8217;s very interesting and challenging.  I&#8217;m enjoying it.&#8221;  That answer surprised me as much as them.  We&#8217;d all expected me to be searching for a new startup by now.  More recently I&#8217;ve hit a rocky stretch.  The entire management chain that purchased Tabblo left the company over the summer.  HP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\/hpinfo\/newsroom\/press\/2007\/070904a.html\">created a new software division<\/a> and put Tabblo in it.  The uncertainty in mission created by that change has been unpleasant.  I&#8217;m not going anywhere at this point, but I&#8217;m not saying &#8220;interesting and challenging.&#8221;  At least not this week.<\/li>\n<li>Vacation.  I just got back from a three-day weekend in Las Vegas.  It was great.  I ate great meals, gambled, and caught up with friends.  It was particularly good to see Craig and Dina Lozofsky and <a href=\"http:\/\/chianti.ucsd.edu\/idekerlab\/pages\/people.html\">Trey Ideker<\/a>.  They are friends from the west coast that I see too rarely, and yet it&#8217;s great that we can have fun and catch up together.  I treasure the friends that last this way.  (The dinner with Doug and Karl in August qualifies in the same way.)<\/li>\n<li>Sox.  I was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabblo.com\/studio\/stories\/view\/365982\/\">game on Friday<\/a>, and saw Manny hit his <strong>mammoth<\/strong> homer.  I&#8217;ll be there again on Friday to watch Beckett show the Indians who is boss.<\/li>\n<li>Vacation II.  In the winter, many New Englanders think of Florida or the Caribbean with longing.  I am not one of them.  I&#8217;m going to the top of Mount Washington on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountwashington.org\/education\/edutrips\/\">EduTrip<\/a> in January.  January&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountwashington.org\/weather\/normals.php\">means<\/a> are 5.2 Farenheit and 50 inches of snow.  I can only hope for more.<\/li>\n<li>Last but not least: I bought a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabblo.com\/studio\/stories\/shared\/20495\/ksu2v4awe879zjr\">motorcycle<\/a>.  I drove it to work for a few days, then rain put me back in my car.  A Ford <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabblo.com\/studio\/item\/1886580\/\">Mustang<\/a> has never felt so slow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My posts have been few and far between lately. It isn&#8217;t that I stopped having opinions, but that I haven&#8217;t had the time or organization to put them together. How about a life update instead? As you know, Grandpa died in August. The world goes on, of course, but differently than before. 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