jeff shuck

Well, I keep meaning to write a “welcome to 2006? post but time keeps getting the best of me — so this is turning into a “I can’t believe it is almost February” post. I’m not sure what I’ve been doing the last four weeks but lately I seem to be spending time on a [...]

It has been way, way too long since I have written. The kids are all asleep; the presents are somewhat cleaned up; and I thought I’d wish you all a happy holiday.
More soon.
Health, Happiness, and Peace,
Jeff

A quick shot from my morning walk.

Incredible, incredible morning on the lake today. The wind was from the North at about 15 knots. North wind can be tricky because of the chop it generates (although around here because of the angle of our beach, a Northwest wind is worse), and this morning there were 2-3 foot waves breaking which made launching [...]

I’m on a flight from Dallas to Chicago — the flight was delayed, then we got re-routed, then the pilot announced that the air conditioning doesn’t work, then subsequently mentioned that the air is out because of an air purifier malfunction, which is also forcing us to fly 10,000 feet lower than normal so that [...]

Sitting here kind of puttering around. A friend took me golfing today, so I had to come in on a Friday night and catch up on some work and delete — I mean, read — all the emails that came in during the day. There were a lot of them today; everyone trying to get [...]

There are many things I want to write, and more things I want to say, and I’m not sure how to begin, or where to end, or what to do in the middle.
I came home tonight to the incredible sight of the sun meeting the water outside of my front door. Everything in my little [...]

I am here working late on a variety of things that seemed incredibly important when I started them — and that now cannot hold my attention. I have found myself drifting to various things to distract me: Running to get a diet Coke; leafing through a magazine at my giant desk; looking at IM for [...]

It has been a month or so since I last posted. I’d love to say that I’ve been working on the Great American Novel, which I have not been doing, but I have been working on the Great American Company, so I think that counts for something. Work has been so filled with content — [...]

Well, after six years, I finally did it: I’m coffee-free.
Usually, I think that giving anything up, particularly something as wonderful as coffee, is just downright silly. Why mess with a good thing? And everyone needs a vice or two. So three cups of coffee in the morning, and three Diet Cokes in the afternoon [...]