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Life does not consist mainly — or even largely — of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head. - Mark Twain Every now and then I find myself pondering, well, myself. I sometimes wonder if I am what I should be or if I am . . . → Read More: A moment of self-reflection before carrying on. 
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. – Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying speech, 1880 I’d like to think that I’m a fairly well mannered person, but there’s a few . . . → Read More: Not sure I agree with this list of 25 manners every kid should know. I didn’t know Derek K. Miller, but he sounds like he might have been someone I would’ve enjoyed hanging out with. I only know about him because the very last post he wrote on his blog — a post announcing his own death from cancer — was linked to by Fark.com. It is a poignant . . . → Read More: Death of a blogger. 
Sometimes this is all it takes. I love my doctor because she’s willing to just lay the truth out for me without beating around the bush. I had to see her on Monday for a checkup because the folks at Blue Care Network, the medical insurance company Anne gets through her job, have decided . . . → Read More: Just face it: The Universe is out to kill you. 
Ten years ago today I married the most wonderful woman I have ever known:
The start of the journey. It wasn’t a huge wedding, just immediate family and a Justice of the Peace, and there wasn’t a huge reception, but it was still one of the greatest days of my life. It hasn’t always . . . → Read More: My wife and I are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary. 
One of the challenges of working at a company that has locations around the world, and that deals with suppliers similarly spread out, is the one of communicating with people who literally speak a different language. Trying to communicate back and forth can be a real trial as idioms that all people tend to use . . . → Read More: The most awesome error message ever. (NewsCore) – COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. — A Minnesota woman won $15,000 in the lottery a month after she died, with her husband left surprised as he did not know she even played, KARE-TV reported Saturday. Ginny McCauley, of Cottage Grove, Minn., died of cancer in November, but two friends she played the lottery with for . . . → Read More: In death as in life, timing is everything… Yesterday was a day of highs and lows. I’m at the tail end of the temporary job I’ve been working at trying to squeeze out one more week of PC refreshes before filing for unemployment and it wasn’t going too well. I had one appointment on Monday, nothing yesterday, and I have one today with . . . → Read More: Riding the Job Search Roller-coaster. Oh look! It’s been 4 days since I last posted something. So here’s one of those gee-I-haven’t-posted-anything-in-awhile posts. Always a lame solution to the problem, but when you’ve been suffering from writer’s block and have been busy trying to find a more permanent form of work you inevitably end up falling back to lame entries . . . → Read More: The Management would like to apologize for this brief interruption of hot air. 
The new coffee toy. I’ve been drinking coffee since I was a teenager and over those 30 or so years I’ve kept my coffee preferences pretty simple. While I will occasionally dabble with the concoctions at Starbucks, at home I tend to use your traditional drip coffee maker with plain old Folgers medium blend . . . → Read More: New adventures in coffee brewing. |
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