So this year my wife's mother opted for a bacon and maple turkey.  It smells pretty great sitting on the counter resting.  There was in interesting tidbit in the New York Times about carving turkey, Butcher’s Method Takes Carving Off the Table.  I'm interested to give this a try especially with the bacon and maple on the outside as every slice can have some skin.  I would love to say I'll report back, but I might be a little to tryptophan'd out. I'll see if can manage to get a picture online. My wife's mother sets a nice table and cooks pretty good too.

Quick, update... It worked great.  Totally manageable and everyone got nice big juicy slices of turkey.

Man, the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade is pretty ridiculous. Will Santa ever show up and end this misery?

The tag line making the easy impossible is not mine. It's an homage to a former boss, Bruce, a bank vice president, who taught me about negotiating and doing buisness at my first corporate job. I think he actually used it as his IM tagline (he may still). At any rate, he's a great guy who taught me a lot.

I don't claim to be the guy who "makes the easy impossible", but I sure know him well.

There are several reason's I've started blogging.  Obviously, the first would be I feel like I have something to say... skipping to the end of a bunch of reasons... My mentor's comment about my site, "It's a little thin."  And in fact, it doesn't much matter why.

At any rate, I am just getting started at this.  I'm using dasBlog and liking it pretty well. There is some fiddling I had to do to figure it out, but that is more likely due to my refusal to read the documentation. I'm trying to figure out what to put on this page photo feeds, rolls from other things I read, widgets, and whatever else.  So dear readers (both of you), what should I do here?  What would you like to see?

Yesterday, I was flying from Phoenix to Denver all the while watching the landscape below me and reading Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger.  I saw the author speak at the ClickZ.com "ten years..." dinner and was sufficiently impressed that he had something worthwhile to say that I was pleased to discover a copy of his book in the swag bag.  I'm only half way in, but his general gist so far is that the material nature of objects imposes limitations on their organization in space and the web blows the lid off of that as the web offers infinite categorization of objects.  I'll tell you later if I recommend the book, but so far he's made some interesting points.  So if you get a free copy, read it otherwise - hold the line.

I am more or less fascinated with Taxonomy, so it's pretty fitting that my first post where I inagurate both my blog and my first category is taxomonious (not sure that's a word.)