• Ice hockey?

    Does anyone still refer to hockey as “ice hockey”? A friend of mine recently asked me if I was interested in taking in a game, via the wife-line. I give him a call, saying “I understand there is an urgent matter regarding an ice hockey game”. Ice hockey? What was he going to say, “no, there’s a semi-pro women’s field hockey team playing at the University of Tampa next week”? Even if we were taking in an Olympic event, there’s not much chance of confusing the two (one’s played in the summer and one’s not).

    It’s fall. The weather has been a pinch cooler. Hockey returns to the Bay Area on October 10. Football season is already in full swing. Both teams look to be pretty good. The distraction of our terrible baseball team has finally ended for the year.

    I love being a sports fan in the fall. It’s o.k. the rest of the year too, just not quite the same.

  • Fin.

    One Herculean effort later… and the iBlog import project is finished. At this point I’d like to thank: my wife, Cheryl, for gnashing her teeth in silence; the makers of iBlog, for making this extremely time consuming project possible; and my favorite computer maker, Apple Computers (Sosumi!).

  • Yea, I walk down a path filled with wonder.

    In short order, Cheryl’s anger will be ripe for an outburst. You see, I’ve found a new toy and it has taken up much of my time this evening. I am famous in the annals of the Florida Department of Revenue for my one tracked mindedness. I am infamous in the annals of the Kauffman household (version 2.0) for this same trait. “And there was a great gnashing of teeth as mother Kauffman waited for father Kauffman to grant the computer leave of his attention.”

    What could possibly warrant such devotion from this mild mannered author? The answer is nigh…
    a software giveaway by Apple… an application named “iBlog”. The genius of this application is it’s seemingly easy to master interface, lying on top of a damn near impossible to configure program. It pulls you in with beauty and wonder, then the witch steps from around the corner and lops off a digit. If you are a regular reader (yes, I’m speaking to both of you), then you’ve noticed the change in scenery by now. Yes, it is due to iBlog.

    I have been fiddling with this thing for the better part of a really long time. I have imported all of my entries from 2003. Sometime I’ll get around to importing the rest of them, not that anyone will miss them.