DRIZZLED OUT IN TAMPA

I won't even begin to bore you about how difficult it was to fly on Thursday. Two words: Spring Break (for every child in America.) Two more words: Easter weekend. Two more words: Winds & LaGuardia. One word: Delays. Two words: Tight connections. Opps. You're bored. Moving right along!

Friday night was perfect beisbol weather, and it was fun to defrost in Tampa on a balmy warm night -- with a Yankees 2-run 8th inning rally to breakup a scoreless encounter with a very impressive Tampa Bay Rays team. This may be the year the Rays aren't in the cellar all season!

But a cold front came in Saturday morning, and with it some insistent drizzle -- Rick Georges and I were disappointed when the Toronto/ Yanks game was called in the second inning, so we moved to drier quarters to continue our conversation over lunch. Rick, a St. Petersburg solo, is the author of the FutureLawyer blog, which he is extremely devoted to -- in fact, he posts several times a day (something that is breathtaking in and of itself). A morning person, he gets up around 5:30 a.m., before his family is awake, and spends about three hours scouting out the latest gadgets, tools, commentaries, etc., he told me.

His blog, which is featured on the Law.com Blog Network, is always unpredictable: in the last few days he has written about a Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1, Palm Addicts Phone Favs, How to Stay Happily Married, the dangers of BigFirm lifestyles, and about Novell fighting Microsoft over WordPerfect. He even wrote a post about how his Bluetooth headset survived being chewed on by his dog.

Georges' blog has been featured as Typepad's Featured Blog, and he just co-authored the cover story on The ABA Journal, taking the PC side of a Mac v. PC shootout. He's a true character, as anyone would guess from perusing his blog. It was a great afternoon.

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