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Wow, am I ever stressed out.

We’ve just gone through the worst 8 day stretch of Winter Hell I can remember (not including ‘78 when I truly didn’t care) and the schools will AGAIN be closed tomorrow. Tomorrow! They don’t even know how the roads will be tomorrow, and yet, they’ll be closed. Hooray for snow days. The kids will essentially be going to school until mid-August, at which time lawsuits will be a plenty due to overheating and dehydration.

In baseball news… I’m relatively sick to death of hearing whether or not Mark Texeira will accept a bajillion dollars to grace our presence in Boston.

Know what? Give me 9 Perdroias and a couple Welkers and I’ll take my chances.

Here’s an idea: Lower the price of a ticket and grow better players that may have a bat to bring to the party.

Diminutive, power-hungry infielders aside, we truly need to see some heavy production come out of the minors. (Lars Anderson, anyone?)

I’m busy at work and especially busy with the holidays mixed in for good measure, which is great, but if they keep closing school my child will end up with four weeks off between December and the “Christmas” break. SHEESH!

Let’s hope for no more snow days… it’s not even officially Winter yet.

I am, once again, truly lucky to be published on the now decade-long running online publication “A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites”.

The personal side to all of this is that I get to strut my stuff and have some interaction with like-minded folks who are into what I do. It’s a wonderful outlet that is completely and entirely separate from the daily riggers of running a small business.

My side project for almost two years has been to get a book published. I’ve been less lucky on that front. Many, many discussions with two publishers have led to creative license questions and missing fulfillment guarantees, and I’m now thinking of switching gears and doing the self-publish route. More money per book, less marketing power from an imprint. Not sure if I want that. I also like the cache of someone printing it on my behalf.

So! One last shot: If you know of an editor or publisher who would love to work with someone incredibly diverse and talented (sales pitch), hit me up with a contact.

Thanks!

I went crazy somehow and decided to upgrade to Leopard at 9:30 at night. Not a wise choice, but it did have a happy ending. The system upgraded flawlessly and I am now experiencing a 10% change in visuals. Not much else, but hey, what was I expecting.

The thing I like the most are “Stacks”, which allow you to place multiple files and/or directories into a vertical-loading-type-visual. What do they say in the real estate business? There’s always room to go up.

There wasn’t enough time between last night at 11:45 and now to play around with anything. It’ll take me a while to get used to the open applications indicator (an open application on the dock has a very small, light blue marker to let you know what’s open).

Next up: Time Capsules for the company (4 of them). Of course, the only place I can seem to find them is on the Apple site.

This post-season has actually been pretty steady for the Sox front office as they work their way through resigning players (Lowell, Schilling, Timlin, Tavares) and exploring options from other clubs (Santana, Bedard, Harren).

The same can be said for us over at work. We’re always happy to get the end-of-year deals because they fuel an otherwise choppy start to the year.

Today’s very quick (one sentence) news item is that Eric Gagne has declined arbitration. No!? REALLY!? You would have thought he’d want to come back and ruin his career even more by not being able to perform in the spotlight.  I can’t believe how strange his short time with the Sox was this year. From being hailed as a huge and calculating move by Theo to absolutely ineffective flop.

With Santana away from the Yankees, the team a Sox fan needs to keep their eye on is Detroit. With the acquisition of both Willis (who will absolutely bounce back in his first year switching leagues) to Cabrera (the hottest young hitter since Pujols) they are without a doubt in a position to clean up the Central and at least the first round of the playoffs if their pitching is healthy.

Another team to keep an eye on (as always) is the Angels. With the trade of Orlando Cabrera for John Garland, their pitching is getting better and they can keep their young prospects. Does Jared Weaver scare me? Nope. Not after that post season.

The Yankees remain a mystery to me this off season. They didn’t make the big deal they usually make (although they tried) and Hank Steinbrenner is trying like hell to become the cartoon “I’m going to prove myself to daddy” figure that is making other people either laugh or get that really weird look on their face as if they’re speaking to a mental patient (scared and would rather be somewhere else).

Brian Cashman has been trying to keep sane, but can you imagine having to start all over with a younger version of his insane boss? Glad to know that Hal is somewhere above all of this quietly looking for ways to upend the family jewel by looking for a buyer for the team.

Ok, that last piece is speculation, but if Georgie-Porgie passes away, the kids will try to sell the farm. Mark these words.

Have a great weekend.

It appears that I had something worthwhile to say and was asked to do so on A List Apart.

Here’s the sitch:

I try not to mix business with pleasure on the two blogs (Visual Activity and Red Sox Soul) I “write” in, but this is one of those times where I’m just effervescent with pride. You see, A List Apart isn’t just a Web site to me. It’s a great publication that has actually helped me during my career. I’ve learned from other industry professionals on a number of topics from technology to management.

I’m proud to be one of the group. It’s an honor.

Carry on.

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