I had big plans for this week. I think I may have shared my plans with all of you. Come on, you remember… I had planned to do nothing this week.
“So John, is there any thing you need at Home Depot?” Cheryl asks me last Friday night.
“Ah, no. Should I need something at Home Depot?” I reply.
“Silly, silly boy; weren’t you going to do Beth’s floor this…
Presumption number one: you pay attention to the books I read.
Presumption number two: anyone is paying attention at all.
My first impression of Harry Turtledove follows his naming strategy… he’s awfully repetitive. Have you ever read a book where the author continuously reminds you what the character’s motivations are?
Chapter 1: “… Jack was uneasy, his acne proof of…
The only time I think about work at home is when someone asks, “So how’s work?”
Tonight was the exception. The Gators advanced to the basketball championship game, and the first thing I thought of was my buddy at work. “THE GATORS??” he asked belligerently at the start of the tournament. “They haven’t played anyone.”
That may be true, but…
When you have one child you are asked to play. When you have two children you are asked to mediate property disputes. Earlier today the property in dispute was none other than yours truly. I was sitting on the couch, minding my own business, when Beth yells, “DADDY!” and proceeds to leap into my lap. Not to be out done, Adam dives at me like a Japanese fighter plane, with seemingly…
I don’t need permission from my wife to spend five dollars, but for some reason I felt compelled to tell her anyway.
“John, you don’t need my permission to spend five dollars,” she replies.
“I know, I thought I would extend you the courtesy of asking anyway.”
“Who are you and what have you done with my husband?”
“We’ve taken him someplace…
There’s something you should know about the week I’m having. I’m happy to report that all systems are functioning. The eldest of my progeny has been getting up in the morning and getting ready for school, which may seem trivial, but is actuality no small feat. Actually, it’s not unlike an 18, extra wide… something with a hard, slippery sole if you have it. The…
My latest obsession is genealogy. It all started with the Mormons. Now there’s a sentence you don’t hear every day.
A search for “genealogy” on Google will bring you to the Church of Later Day Saints with greater reliability “polygamy.” (What’s this world coming to?) So I hung out with the Mormons for a while. I found a couple interesting snippets of…
The litany of my errors goes something like this…
Monday. I forget my magic (coffee beans) at home.
Tuesday. I forget my lucky (coffee) mug at home.
Wednesday. I forget my faithful (coffee bean) grinder at home.
Forgive me father, for I have sinned.
Wednesday morning I was standing (barely) in a coworker’s office, offering sage advice on matters pertaining to work, when I could not…
Putting a label or some kind of mark on one of them would have been much too simple. No, the best way to tell the difference between the two outwardly identical computers was to put the one that didn’t work away. If you’re just keeping something for parts, you don’t need to keep it handy. Leave the one that works out on the floor of the family room – where it’s easy…