My little brother got a nice writeup in the Milwaukee Journal about his business, Sconnie Nation, LLC.  The entrepreneurship bug still runs in the family!  Check out his site if you want to pick up one of those cool Wisconsin T-Shirts.

I ride caltrain from my home in SF to work in Mountain View just about every day and unfortunately for me, my train is about 80% male.  That being said, every now and then there is someone on Caltrain who has caught my eye.  Just tonight, a neighbor of mine who is a new Caltrain rider asked "are there any hotties on the train?".

It's only appropriate that this evening I stumbled across an article in the Chronicle about a Caltrain love poem contest.  I may have to enter.  If I do, I'll post it here.

Omar, does this mean you can collect royalties?

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article320877.ece

I know, this sounds weird, but I forgot how much fun it was to hammer nails until yesterday.  A group of managers from my team did a full day volunteer project at Habitat for Humanity in Daly City.  This was my first H4H experience and I found it to be physically and mentally rewarding, not to mention the good that will come of bringing homeownership to a low-income family in the expensive Bay Area housing market.

At any rate, just remember, the key to successful hammering is to make the hammer work for you and get leverage by holding it closer to the bottom!

Green Bay Packers season tickets have been sold out since 1960.  In 1997 I signed up on the waiting list for Packers season tickets.  At that time, which was prior to the Lambeau Field renovation, the estimate was that I would be 51 by the time season tickets were available.  Given that there are more seats and the season ticket transfer rules have tightened up a bit, it might be more like 45 now (I can't find the wait calculator anymore).

While I'm not planning on moving back to Wisconsin anytime soon, by the time I'm that age, you never know.  If the packers were having a good season, I would even consider flying back for some games!

I have had three people ask me to explain what it is that I do at Microsoft as a Lead Program Manager.  I'll eventually get around to expanding this post more, but until then, here are some good links:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/techtalk/archive/2005/08/08/449231.aspx
• The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun

Aside from the (now very irregular) jazz jam sessions at Dick's place, I'm hoping to check out some other venues in the area.  There was an article in the SF Chronicle a while back and here's the list of places:

• Sunday night: Jazz at Pearl's
• Sunday afternoon: Dogpatch Saloon
• Monday night: Shanghai 1930
• Wednesday night: Amnesia

Being a drummer, it's tough to sit in at jam sessions but nonetheless, I'm a big fan of live improvisation and jam sessions are where you often get the best of that.

The (somewhat) annual Bond Party was last night and in my typical last minute fashion, I weant grocery shopping for the list I had accumulated over the day getting ready.

My family and I are visiting San Diego and the weather here has been great.  The weatherman on the local news basically just wears a Hawaiian shirt and jokes around about the beach.  Basically, the weather is mid 70s and foggy early, clearing later to become sunny . . . all summer.

How are the local weather forecasters evaluated?  Their jokes?  Their outfits?

I saw them twice when they played Berkeley.  I love this band.  Playing two shows back to back at this late hour on Memorial Day when they have another show the next day in San Jose earns them some serious cred (like they needed any more).

If only I knew of other Pixies fans in SF!