Alas, this year probably isn't happening unless such a surprise does materialize; however I do expect to be there next year if all goes well

...it would be so great to see so many of the old friends I know will be attending and show my kids California's wonders for the first time.

I'm secretly still hoping some big project/sponsor/client will fall in our lap so I can justify the cost of attending iWorld/Macworld SF...

Every word I write, every scene I envision and note I play, owes to their insistence that I be unafraid to stand on the shoulders of giants.

But it is for them, and for all that I have yet to do to live up to what they saw in me...that I redouble my efforts on "passion projects."

Missing tonight, more than ever, the great minds that I have known and lost...Dave, Jon, Doug Adams, so many others...wishing you were here.

The snow's really picked up & is coming down in huge feather-sized flakes...looks like the accumulation will be much more than was forecast.

Whoa, whoa, whoa....wait a second....it's snowing?!?! When did I get so far behind in my meteorology? Sheesh! It's really beautiful, though.

"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently." -Bill Watterson

It's an amazingly mellow, mild day outside (for December in Maine,anyway!)...cleaning house & soul, then off to the YMCA to heal the body...