Common sense struck fourteen hours too late today. You should know this already, but if not, take this opportunity to learn from others’ mistakes. How did I become an other? Oh woe is me! Am I the mother of all others? If there’s any chance a doctor’s appointment may cause worry, for God’s sake people, take the morning appointment! How it fits into your work schedule should be WAY down on your list of priorities, unless for some reason missing time at work will cause more anxiety than the long wait. In that case, you have no alternative. Take two [...]
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Fickle Facebook friends
Note: I wrote this months ago, so the time references are way off (like someone’s concerned about timeliness… here of all places). I was a social networking snob. At one time I had a blog, a web site, and all of it ran on a web server under my desk. I had Internet cred, and Facebook was beneath me. Like everyone else, I didn’t get Twitter. About a year ago I was talked into Facebook at an Obama event in Dunedin. “We’ll post all of our pictures there,” they said. “Facebook is cool. You’ll be hooked.” So I signed up. [...]
Life is like a box of Splenda
Stuff never seems to stop coming out of that dang box. I have to say, it’s disturbingly light. What lengths do chemists go to create a substance with so little density? Anyway, I bought one three weeks ago thinking we were almost out, but the old one’s still filling tablespoons for Cheryl’s elixir of life (coffee). I had a similar experience this weekend. I was a mad cleaning machine Saturday morning. Cheryl was out on some errands, stressing about all the work that needed to be done around the house. So, I gave myself a good kick in the but [...]
My life in song
She had no idea she was making a mistake. I’m unpredictable that way. You never know what will set me off. We were watching something on the TV and Cheryl asked, “where have I seen her before?” Not missing a beat, I whipped up a brilliant song about IMDB… set to the music of YMCA. I even threw in the arm spasms… I mean letters. It’s my one true gift, the thing that sets me apart, makes me special. “Yeah, you’re ‘special’ alright.” she says. I doesn’t sound sincere though.
Big Bother is watching
Cheryl was complaining this morning. Before you rush to judgement – of me – for telling on Cheryl, let me say up front that I complain just as much as she does. Only, my complaining tends to be more whiney, grating, and down right irritating. But let us not talk about me, and instead focus on Cheryl – my intended target. (We’ll get to me shortly.) Cheryl was complaining about her ratio of recreation to responsibilities this morning, but I was having none of it. “I saw you on the computer this morning,” I pointed out. “Yeah,” she replied, “but [...]
Saving money in the wrong places
There are some lines I won’t cross on this blog. Don’t you laugh. I’ll find you. I’m not going to elaborate, not that it’ll be necessary. I think your imagination will fill in capably. I’ve decided not to save money on toilet paper anymore. I say that now, but just you wait. A few years from now I’ll be reposting this entry, complaining about how rough it is out there.
You’ve done this before
If you haven’t I don’t want to hear about it. I’ve been working with weights for a while now, trying to build up a little strength. You can do a fair bit with free weights alone, but there were a few exercises I wanted to add that required a bench. The kids have finally grown to the point where I’m not worried about having my old weight bench sitting out, so I set out to harvest its parts from around the house. Don’t ask me why I didn’t have all the parts in one place. I won’t have a good [...]
