James VanDyke

Tomorrow is Take Your Dog to Work Day. Our office is tentatively scheduled to participate, so after lunch time TigerMan will join Addy and Luke at our office.
A full report to follow, until then visit the TYDTWD website.

Part of this week I worked from home because the air conditioning was out at work. Along the way I learned a few important things.

Keep a to do list so you don’t get distracted
Having animals around makes for a better work environment
Check your meeting calendar before deciding to work from home for the day
Test your [...]

Erin and my favorite art festival was this weekend. The Main Street Art Festivial in Fort Worth is one of the highlights of our cultural year. This year we brought home our first real piece of art work, a print by Daniel Ng. Sunrise Tuscany (giclee print 4 of 450) is now hanging in our [...]

We’re having our bathroom remodeled. It was in need of some work so the contractor has ripped everything out down to the studs in the walls. The plan is to end up with a bigger shower (that doesn’t leak) and new tile on the floor and in the shower.

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After being trapped at La Guardia for most of the day Friday I finally got on a flight headed for Dallas. I spent the night at home and then drove my car down to Austin. It was a long 24 hours in New York but it’s over now.

I’m sitting at La Guardia waiting for my plane to leave. I’m supposed to be in Austin for the SXSW Interactive Festival. Yesterday, the second winter storm in a week hit Dallas. My 8:15am flight out of NYC was cancelled and I haven’t been able to hit the standby jackpot. I paid $7.95 for internet [...]

It snowed in Dallas tonight and TigerMan enjoyed playing in the snow.

One of my favorite toys, Legos, turned 50 yesterday. As I remember it, I got my first legos as a hand-me-down from a family friend who had out grown them. In the beginning I was a fan of the space sets, then I moved on to castles and knights (Thanks for the huge castle Mom [...]

The intervention worked. More later, but here’s a video of TigerMan walking nicely.

TigerMan is getting an intervention today. He’s a bad walker. Since that’s his main activity most days it’s a problem. So a dog trainer is coming to work with him. This is the fourth trainer to try to fix him. Here’s hoping.