Category: random idiocy
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frustration
Comedian Tom Popa said something like, “The best day I can possibly have is one where I don’t have to recover my password for anything.” I couldn’t agree more. I did not have a best day today. I got a subscription to Apple TV over a year ago to watch the Tom Hanks movie “Greyhound”… Read.
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no plan
I was working in an open-plan office: Lots of people milling around lots of desks in a big open room. My boss called me into his office. He said I was going to be reassigned to another department. Didn’t say which department or what I’d be doing, but said my new boss would talk to… Read.
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a puzzle to pass the time
The cold spell broke last weekend. It broke so hard that temperatures climbed into the 60s on Monday. Insane. To take advantage of the balmy weather, I’ve been tromping around anywhere the ground is solid enough to walk on. There’s not a lot of that right now. But for four weeks, it rarely got warmer… Read.
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under pressure
For the first time in ages, I gave blood once again today. According to my donation history, which I can review online — because doing anything these days requires an app or an online account — the last time I gave whole blood was on July 25th, 2024. I donated platelets on August 7th, 2024,… Read.
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two cats
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burn baby burn
I spent a big chunk of the day today burning piles of buckthorn and honeysuckle, both invasive species, which volunteers had been cut out of the wooded areas alongside the University Ridge segment of the Ice Age Trail about a year ago. These areas were so overgrown with buckthorn and honeysuckle that it was impossible… Read.
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a couple of farts
While cleaning up a mess in the basement recently, I found a box of photos I had lost track of for quite a while. I was even a little afraid the photos may have been accidentally tosses with the trash a while back, but no! They were not! And I am so happy about that.… Read.
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pick your nose
When I lost my key ring while I was out hiking on Tuesday, unlocking my bicycle from the sign post was not the only problem I had to figure out how to fix. One of the other keys on that key ring was a key that would open the lock that prevented any random person… Read.
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fallen
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dumb and dumber
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