Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: December 2002


Happy new year, everybody. This has been a great year for all kinds of different reasons. Can’t wait to see what the next one brings.Oh, and look for a new issue here sometime in the next two weeks. We may do things a little differently this time around; watch this space for announcements. (And e-mail […]

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Stop staying up until 3 AM catching up on your favorite weblogs, news sites and shopping on Amazon for modern reproductions of the toys you grew up with in the 80s. (God bless Amazon.) G’night, folks.

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My New Year’s resolutions are adding up excruciatingly quickly. I still need to come up with a truly great daily schedule to make sure I get it all done, though. This year I’m going to lose 20 pounds of flab and pack on some muscle, read at least 12 classics (one a month), improve my […]

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Oh, I think I forgot to mention these. The site I was working on for DC-area photographer Keith K. Annis has gone live over at kkap.com, and my last legacy design for The Advisory Board Company has gone live over at advisoryboardcompany.com. I’m impressed that the second one survived my leaving as well as it […]

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Wow, things around here have been quiet. On this page, I mean. You know, what with the lack of postings at whatnot. Sorry about that – spending time with my friends and family here in Ohio has seemed a bit more important. In the last couple of days I’ve met up with a large number […]

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Ho, ho, ho! Christmas here in Ohio was really, really good this year. I got to see my family, a bunch of friends I hadn’t seen in forever (I didn’t even recognize one of them, which was weird) and Santa was extremely kind to me this year. I am now a member of the white […]

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If at all possible, try to move to a new home in December. For those of us who have difficulty remembering random bits of data, like your own new zip code, return-addressing a decent-sized stack of Christmas cards will drill those digits straight into your memory.In other news, I am safe and sound back in […]

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Next post will be from the homeland of Ohio. Apologies for not making many posts this week; my friend Aaron is staying in our house for a couple of days now and a few more after we return from Christmas, and all my spare time has been sucked up by doing Christmas cards, Christmas shopping, […]

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So while doing my Christmas shopping, I picked up Coldplay’s new A Rush of Blood to the Head, and it’s good, but it’s not the incredible art that people seem to be making it out to be. It’s a nice example of fairly nice, slightly-more-intelligent-than-most pop puff music, but that’s about it. It’s no Hard […]

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The biggest trouble with going to a midnight movie is that then you don’t get to bed until 5:30 AM. And then you don’t wake up until noon. And then you don’t really get going on the day until around 1. And then 1:30 rolls around and you’re like, Hey! Where’d my day go!? Bang, […]

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