Jan 30, 2012 Posted by Paul Gillespie

The Week In Review

“They may seem like botulism victims, but they’re loyal.” That was an awesome quote (Chuck to Casey).  Unfortunately, it also signaled that I was just over two episodes away from the end of the best show on television: Chuck.  After five awesome seasons and 91 episodes, Chuck finished it’s run Friday night. I haven’t actually seen the final two episodes (“Chuck vs.... read more

Jan 28, 2012 Posted by Paul Gillespie

Regrets

All I’m going to ask of you for this post is not to laugh. I’m about to cry because Chuck – my all-time favorite TV show (sorry, MacGyver, JAG and A-Team) is over.  Last night was the series finale – a two-hour wrap-up to an absolutely awesome show.  [The picture attached to this post is one of my all-time favorites - it's a great pic, and it's fun to look back on this and see... read more

Jan 27, 2012 Posted by Paul Gillespie

Broken

I have an aversion. It’s a pretty strong aversion, actually, and it does a good job of ruining my day somedays. I hate letting things get broken. Not necessarily physically, although I’m a huge fan of not getting my (or pretty much anyone else’s) bones broken. I’m speaking more of things that I can (somewhat) control.  If I have the power to prevent something from breaking,... read more

Jan 22, 2012 Posted by Paul Gillespie

The Week In Review

The weekend always seems to go by too fast, and this weekend was no exception. It’s Sunday night, time for my weekly recap of this week’s notable (and sometimes incredibly boring) events. Let’s start with Monday.  6:10am found me sitting in Kansas City International airport, waiting for my flight to Seattle (via Denver) on my favorite airline – Southwest.  It was a good flight... read more

Jan 22, 2012 Posted by Paul Gillespie

I’m Worried About My E-mail

 OK, enough is enough. I could put up with Google’s (I hope) attempts at humor, deciding that I was the kind of person who was ripe for jumping on the chance to go wild hog hunting for free in Texas.  While I’m certain that chasing a gigantic slab of bacon across the equivalent of the surface of Mercury is really fun…it’s not my kind of thing.  I’m a beach volleyball guy, a... read more

Jan 16, 2012 Posted by Paul Gillespie

Rolling the d20 Of Life

I’m thinking the folks at Wizards of the Coast (and before them, TSR) have it right: rolling a 20-sided die (affectionately referred to as a “d20″) can solve most of the world’s problems.  In fact, I gave my management team at the office a d20 for Christmas for the very purpose of making the world better. OK, that’s not actually something either WotC or TSR ever said (that I... read more

Jan 15, 2012 Posted by Paul Gillespie

The Week In Review

I survived another week.  Looking back it was a crazy one, but it didn’t really feel that way in the middle of it.  It was really only in retrospect that I realized that it seemed like somehow the second full week of January bypassed all space and time constraints and ended up squeezing more than seven full days into it. Monday started the first full week of 2012 at the office, and it... read more