Octopodial Chrome

Psychology Today has an article about how we’ve become a nation of wimps due to parents who obsess over making life as easy for their children as possible. Cellphones don’t help, either. Read on so that your children will be among the few to actually grow up when they grow up.

Today was my last day at Nissan, after a little more than a year there. I don’t feel nearly as sad as when I left the CoBank account, but it’s still the end of something fun.

Yesterday I bid a final farewell to Tom Tripp. He interviewed me for an internship position at IBM—at CoBank—way back in the summer of ’98; I got the job and we’ve been working together for eight years. He’s a fine man, one whom I’ve been fortunate to call a co-worker and a friend; I count myself lucky to have known him.

Now I’m on to the American Express account. It should be a great challenge!