Month: May 2010
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wrong wrong WRONG
You are looking at one of the most colossal failures to come from my work shop in recent memory, or even long-term memory. I can’t remember the last time I did something this mind-bogglingly stupid. Every time I look at it, I want to drink myself into oblivion. Okay, not oblivion, just until it’s funny.… Read.
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moving Jim & Sue
I spent virtually the entire day yesterday helping to launch two people on one of the greatest adventures of life: Moving! As in, moving house. As in, packing all the detritus of your life into cardboard boxes and hauling them from point A to point B. And when I say “one of the greatest adventures… Read.
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double talk
I had a beer Friday after work with some of my coworkers. We gathered around a small table outside Genna’s and, while the conversation drifted from one topic to the next, I couldn’t help noticing that almost everyone was carrying on two conversations at a time: One with those of us sitting around the table,… Read.
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no pattern
12:30 a.m.: Insomnia has struck again. This is just the weirdest affliction ever. It’s chronic, but only in the sense that it inflicts itself on me once every six months or so. There is no pattern to it that I can discern. For long stretches I can sleep as normal, and then bing! I wake… Read.
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When does summer start for you? What’s that first day you have to do something, or something is done to you, that you stop and think, This is it. This is summer. We turned on the air conditioning for the first time this week when the weather got all hot and sticky. If I hadn’t… Read.
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pop-up
Banging away at my office keyboard yesterday morning, I was distracted by an Outlook pop-up reminding me I had a very important meeting that afternoon. I’ve got Outlook set up to give me these things all the time. I can hardly remember to feed myself without them. Trouble is, they’re only as good as the… Read.
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clog
If anything good came of the BP oil spill off the coast of Louisiana last month, it was this: It helped me figure out how to break the clog that stops up our bathtub drain from time to time. Two or three times a year I can count on a clog so stubborn that the… Read.
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Seven Habits
I went back to the daily grind Thursday morning after a relatively relaxed day at a management seminar on Wednesday. This once-a-month series is broken up so that each day-long session covers some important aspect of managing a work place. Yesterday’s subject: Time management, something I could always use help with. Even if I learned… Read.
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hulk smash
Mom called me the other night to let me know I shouldn’t sent her e-mail because she didn’t have a computer. She was disconnecting the cables from the back of her computer when she got to one that was … stuck, somehow, so she gave it a good, hard jerk and it came out, all… Read.
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killer death shrub
Pictured: A freshly-beheaded thorny shrub from hell. Correction: No, not from hell. Is there some place worse than hell? Some place way more painful? Because this shrub is worse than anything hell could spawn. It’s got thorns sharper than kitten’s teeth. Brushing up against it absent-mindedly will cause searing pain and draw blood. To remove… Read.
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