michael fulk’s blog

Today just wasn’t that great of a day for many here in Pittsburgh. My emotional roller coaster has hit all the points from low to high today.
Sad
After work tonight, I found out that my grandfather died this morning. It wasn’t a particularly great shock as he’d been succumbing to alzheimers slowly over the past couple [...]

Hello again, Monday #
Finally home from work. We’ll see how much writing I get done tonight. #
Long day so far. Lots to get done yet. #
Time to go home…I’m starved #
Middle week. More fun stuff to work on! #
Squeeze in a few words…then off to bed. #
Working. Refresh Pittsburgh tonight. #
On the way over to [...]

On the afternoon of September 27, after the Podcamp Plugin session at Northland Library, I finally was able to visit the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (which are actually in the same building/complex as part of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh). I’ve had a membership for quite a while [...]

Find details about the Neighborhood Walk on the Rust Belt Bloggers site as well as a list of others’ walks.
With my job, it makes it difficult to get outside and take photos of the neighborhood where I have my apartment as it’s dark when I get home. But I figured I’d take a few photos [...]

Hopefully it’s no secret that I really enjoy classical music. I studied piano for more than ten years and took various classes in composition, counterpoint, conducting and choral singing during high school. I’ve been slacking on the active playing of music recently but I’m hoping to remedy that sooner or later. Some of my favorite [...]

Lunch at work today was the return of crockpot lunches for the fall and winter. It’s a great way for us to share in a meal and hang out. We ate in our newly remodeled and set up conference room. And for some reason started watching movie trailers on the big HD screen.
One was the [...]

Won’t have to ignore the media and advertising quite as much as I have been and be able to go back to my regularly scheduled ignoring of the traditional media.
Besides, I voted last Wednesday.
If you haven’t already voted, be sure to get out and vote! It’s an important part of being a U.S. citizen, no [...]

Today marks the end of Daylight Saving Time for the year of 2008. I’ve been waiting quite a while for everyone to join me again on normal, standard time. Welcome back to reality!
And now is the moment for my twice annual complaint. The chicanery that is “daylight saving” seems like it’s just a marketing ploy [...]

It seems that November is national challenge month. Of the various projects, I’ve decided to participate in two at the same time. I know, I might be a bit crazy.
The most ambitious is NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month with the goal to complete a 50,000 word rough first draft of a novel in the [...]

October 17-19, about two weekends ago, I attended Podcamp Pittsburgh 3. Having helped/listened throughout the planning process for the event I really wanted to be sure I showed up. In my last post I talked about heading to the meet and greet on Friday night. Since I had been able to go to the second [...]