Category: daily drivel
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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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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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distract– SQUIRREL!
I don’t need no stinking reason to put the granola in the refrigerator, do I? I can absentmindedly put it in there without it meaning anything, don’t you think? I put it there before I drank my second cup of coffee, so I wasn’t even hitting on all four cylinders yet (I’m a compact model).… Read.
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practice
I was practicing dance steps with My Darling B in the front room last night, which is quite a feat if you take in to account that our living room is about the same size as the bed of a pickup truck, and we can’t remember dance steps to save ourselves. Actually, our living room… Read.
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that was the day that was
On this misty, crappy, cold day we declined to make the usual weekly circuit of the farmer’s market, so instead My Darling B offered to take me to Plaka Taverna for brunch. Plaka used to be Cleveland’s Diner, one of our favorite places to get breakfast on a Sunday, and they still serve what they… Read.
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