I thank my lucky stars every­day that my fam­ily and I were over­seas from mid-June through mid-July. We went to Italy. It was won­der­ful and we had a great time and our fam­ily felt bet­ter again since Kim and I had been work­ing 60+ hour weeks. In the town of Loro Ciufenna that we were staying […]

God bless the Inter­net. The Inter­net Archive, also known as the Way­back Machine, is a won­der­ful thing. You can see the way Google looked a long time ago or the web­site of the New York Times from Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001. It’s not the fastest thing in the world (and come on, if you archive the […]

Every­one, I’ve decided to leave the pro­tec­tive arms of Feed­burner behind for RSS and email feeds. They bro­ken my feeds (for both this site and tellyouwhatithink.com) over and over and wouldn’t couldn’t let me send out the last post that I’d put on tellyouwhatithink.com let­ting every­one know that I was mov­ing the blog to glennvance.com […]

The other morn­ing Pey­ton, the baby, woke up early, and, being the con­sci­en­tious father, I decided that rather than hav­ing him wake up every­body else in the house that he and I would go and drive around for awhile. It was approach­ing 7 am and I was tired, hav­ing already been up with him for […]

I remem­ber when I was a kid that some kids (not me) when they were walk­ing to school in the cold would wear var­i­ous things — coats, gloves, hats, and some­times the invalu­ably effec­tive ski mask. I always wanted one. I never got one. They were awe­some. Your face would be warm out in the cold. An […]