June 2007 Archives

Here's another back-dated entry. Ab Initio fielded this splendid team in the
JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge, Boston 2007. Photo credit to Jim Frost.

My recent birthday went unheralded here in the blog-o-sphere. J & J commute twice daily past Petsi Pies in Somerville. And they graciously indulged us with two good pies from Petsi's: one apple pie with crumb crust, and for my b-day, a chocolate pecan pie. No pics - they went fast! Recommended.

And while we are talkin' pie, we brought another bought pie (Trader Joe's key lime) over to K's friend, Carolyn, for her birthday.

You typically will only find me at Building 19 if someone has dragged me there. To pick out a bargain, you must be enough of a shopper to know what you are buying and what the going price is. That is not me.

Well, the Mrs did drag us, and maybe this marks me as some kind of snob, but these stores are so depressing. Would anyone shop at such stores if they had a choice? Well, maybe. Some folks just love a bargain.

Starbucks has done quite well for themselves using carefully chosen and programmed music at their shops to set a mood. (Today, Marvin Gaye.) In what only could have been a similar deliberate, conscious choice, Building 19½'s intercom was playing The Doors' "The End". We didn't stick around.