2/22: Had dinner at PF Chang's before sitting courtside at the season opener for the Texas Rollergirls.

2/21: Met up with former DZ writer Rhonda, had Mexican at Mesa Rosa, returned to fabulous Hamilton's Pool, then went to a scotch tasting at Opal Divine's before cruising 6th Street and winding up at Casino El Camino.

2/20: Travelled to Austin, had diner with my friend Jeanie at Bone Daddy's BBQ.

2/18: Completed an enjoyable short-term contract gig, my first real work effort in two years!

2/17: Posted public comments on the NHTSA proposal to extend the federal fuel economy standards to cover SUVs.

2/7: Caught Pressure Cooker at Johnny D's with Inna and picked up their new reggae instrumental album "Burning Fence".

2/6: Went to MoS for an "Aerodynamics of Sports" lecture by Dr. Kim Blair of MIT's Center for Sports Innovation.

2/5: Went to MIT to see a panel discussion featuring Weebl & Skoo, creators of Weebl & Bob as well as the infectious Badger, Badger clip, plus Randy Milholland, the creator of the quality Something Positive.

2/4: Read Haglund's expansive Inventing the Charles River.

2/3: Joined the Google-sponsored online networking tool Orkut.

1/31: DargonZine proudly begins our record 20th year printing fiction on the Internet with DargonZine 17-1

1/23: Saw The Return of the King, the third and final episode of Tolkien's trilogy. A very poor ending to a work that began so well. Read comments.

1/21: MMBUG lecture at AMC on getting data into and out of Flash by my Flash instructor Lenni Armstrong.

1/14: Great get-together for the “young” residents of my condo.

1/10: Read Tufte's third book, "Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative".

1/8: Faced a -20°F wind chill to get out to Anam Cara to observe AnneMary's big 3-0...

1/6: Read Tufte's second book, "Envisioning Information".

1/3: Read Tufte's classic "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information".

1/2: Saw MIT geophysicist and Spirit scientist Maria Zuber lecture "Exploring Mars: Landscapes, Climate Change, and the History of Water" at MoS, a mere 24 hours before the Spirit rover landed on the surface of Mars.