Author Archives: patrickrhett

A look at what $456 Billion will buy, besides our current war. I was struck most by #9, which states, According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion … Continue reading →

Julie hasn’t posted anything in almost a year, and tonight I just happen to take a look, expecting to see the same old post that I always see right before I hit the back button, and… it’s not there. There’s … Continue reading →

This is a test of an embeddable flash mp3 player plugin. If it works, what follows should be the Mosquito Sound … [mp3]/sound/mosquito_sound.mp3[/mp3] Hmm, that produced less than stellar results. Let’s try one more… [mp3]/sound/MillersTheme.mp3[/mp3] That worked much better. Excellent.

I couldn’t even manage a single post. Not a stupid YouTube link, not a boring personal update, nothing. Go watch Bill Moyers interview Jon Stewart – that’ll be a much better use of your time. I’ve got to go lie … Continue reading →

So I just pulled up my page to make sure it was still here, and realized it’s been exactly one month since my last post. So, let’s see… I’ve changed the Lust page to a Camera page and a PC … Continue reading →

Added a page named “Lust” up there in the top right corner; it will be a repository for all of my base, material desires. Now that it’s up I feel like I should balance it out a bit, maybe add … Continue reading →

St. Patrick’s Day was a bit of a wash. We got there around 6pm, which I figured was a perfectly reasonable time to start partying, only to find everyone there many hours and many beers ahead of us. After a … Continue reading →

I’m on Day 4 of a 5 day weekend, and I’m feeling pretty relaxed. I need to do this more often. Today I planted a tree and a couple of rose bushes, day before yesterday I planted some flowers in … Continue reading →

Thursday I got to eat, and share, a crazy stupendous cake, made by the inimitable Holly from work. Chocolate cake with a layer of chocolate-espresso ganache in the middle and topped with chocolate-espresso truffles. I think that’s what it was, … Continue reading →

Today is my 37th birthday. I took the day off and relaxed, had digital cable with a DVR installed, and will be going out for a steak this evening, courtesy of my parents. All in all, a pretty good day.