Lasagna,

turkey and the all important corn bread…

Jane’s amazing soup, stuffing made two ways, and mashed potatoes…

Followed by

The jello fish, homemade apple pie and the all important and awe inspiring from scratch pumpkin pie…

Here’s the food on my plate

Certainly this can not be too good for me… And somewhere I think a deadly sin is being transgressed..

Standing around the playground with the other parents watching kids play in a caged environment feels like being a spectator at a mixed martial arts bout. Except most spectators cheer when they see hitting in an MMA fight. Here they rush in to stop the fighting…

I hope to have a screen capture of me at the starting line….

Across at dionysos cafe. Where karamalis the elder brought his foreign visitor…

Son and aunt…

My son found a hockey puck from when  I was a kid amongst my stuff in my parents house and is playing

Starting our training to build our running base for Athens 2014 marathon

One of the hardest things to do is launch a new piece of software at scale. What will and will not work is not obvious. And many times what seems reasonable turns out to be horribly wrong and what seemed horribly wrong saves your skin. And you never have the people or the resources necessary to pull it off.

If it’s a high risk bet, then there are factions within your company that want  you to fail. They undermine your product, they don’t give you the people you need and when it finally launches they latch on any piece of data to prove how wrong your product is.

No I wasn’t talking about any of my former employers I was talking about healthcare.gov.

The absurdity of the response to the website woes is absurd. Of course it had problems. They were trying to put together a very large b-to-c exchange for a large segment of the population. And guess what there were bugs and scaling problems.

Really. Amazing how that happens. Shocking even. Unheard of. Because every commercial product launched at scale launches without a hitch. Promise!

The only thing that this serves to remind me of is how much I find the whole political process to be annoying and frustrating.