Category: daily drivel
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Markup
As previously mentioned in this drivel, I’ve kept myself busy all freaking week doinking around with the html markup for each year’s drivel pages, and I think I may finally be done. There’s a certain amount of unsuredness because there are just so many pages to format, but everything looks right even though I’m still… Read.
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The Spirit of Giving
As soon as I heard the buzz of hundreds of people talking as if they were reading from a script in the background, I regretted picking up the phone. “Hi there, is this Dave?” the caller asked. He didn’t know me, but he had been doing this so long that he could sound as if… Read.
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Hitch
I was driving through Carmel, California one afternoon when I came to an intersection where I had to stop at a light. A guy on the corner getting ready to cross was watching me the way a dog stares at you when you’re holding a biscuit in the air. I guessed he was waiting to… Read.
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Nerd-O-Riffic
What a great day! Wake up, check the clock to see how much time I’ve got left before the alarm starts bleeping, realize the alarm isn’t going to do any bleeping today, shove the cat off the part of the bed that used to be mine, curl up in the warm spot and close my… Read.
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A ding on the loop
My very first car was a ’69 Volkswagen microbus nicknamed “Warbaby.” I bought it for five hundred bucks from a hippy who threw in his battered copy of John Muir’s book, “How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot.” The pages were already dog-eared and smeared… Read.
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Together again
And the whole family’s home once again. I drove out to the airport with T-Dawg last night to pick up the Seanster, who somehow arrived so close to his originally scheduled time as to make no difference. I only mention that because the guy’s been haunted by a modern-day travel curse that makes it impossible… Read.
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Flesh-eating fish
At our bi-monthly staff meeting last week, I learned two very important things: flesh-eating fish pedicures are banned in Wisconsin, and I’m not the only person who owns a Ped Egg and thinks it’s awesome. My very own foot-care strategies have evolved quite a bit over the years, in parallel with the evolution of my… Read.
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Hello Kitty!
One of the Christmas gifts I bought for My Darling B on-line arrived in the mail yesterday, a t-shirt with an adorable kitty on it. I’m giving away the surprise because I’ve already showed it to her. I had to. When I opened the package I found out there was no way I’d be able… Read.
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History Nerds
Chatting with a coworker this morning, I had one of the strangest experiences of my life. Yes, of my life! We were discussing the busy examination schedule that day and he mentioned that he had been tapped to step in and give the tester a break now and again, and “wouldn’t you know it, I… Read.
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Miss Pelling
I have trouble spelling things in e-mail. Yes, you are correct, wise ass, I have trouble spelling all the time, but in e-mail my very special problem seems to get magnified so disproportionately that I can’t even get past the salutation without making at least five spelling mistakes, and that is indeed special. “Drea M.r… Read.
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