Waiting room writing is a feature that is surely sorely missed on this site. Today’s entry comes to you courtesy of the hairdresser’s lobby.
Yes, I am a man. Yes, I am at a hairdresser. Once relegated to the barbers of the world, today’s liberated man can confidently tend to his grooming needs side by side with his women folk. I am the very model of modern…
Friends, today I wish to speak to you about unreasonable requests. I was speaking to my wife on the phone this morning about allergy skin testing, when I decided to change the subject.
“Cheryl, I need to get going. I’m about to leave work early today… in about 10 minutes. I wanted to try and get the raking done before this weekend, and I’ve got that extra time built up from…
As it stands right now, as of this very moment, I could conceivably get five hours of sleep tonight. But that’s not gonna happen. I’ve got about as much chance going to sleep right now as I’ve got going outside and getting a sunburn. It’s a pity. I was just starting to hit my stride again. Now I’ll be lucky to make it through lunch fully conscious. It stands to reason…
There are a couple of important things you need to know about a candleholder I hung on the wall for Cheryl.
1. It is made of glass, but is quite solid.
2. It is boxy, and sticks out from the wall.
3. It has edges – not exactly sharp – but kind of like the pointy edge of a cube.
4. It is hung near the corner two joining walls that stick out into our room, on a path frequently traveled…
Earlier this evening I was having a splendid chat with myself…
“John, my good fellow, I do say you’re having quite the evening.”
“Mighty good of you to notice old chap.”
“If you don’t mind my saying, you’re doing a superb job.”
“Why thank you. As it happens, I don’t mind at all John.”
This is where Cheryl rudely…
During my week-long sojourn in sickness there was this peek in the week when my temperature had a few too many integers added in. (I loose two points for ending a sentence with a preposition… would it kill me to come up with another throw away noun?) During this time of confusion, lethargy, and yes… pain, you’d think someone would have had the decency to put the poor creature…
We don’t pull any punches on this site baby! We may embellish a few, or just plain make them up, but nothing gets pulled in MY HOUSE! I am of course not talking literally about my physical place of residence… a recent gallop poll of married Americans suggests that the average couple, married 5 years or longer, pulls approximately 154.2 out of an average 155 potential…
I noted two unspectacular events this week. There was nothing extraordinarily special about these two unspectacular events, I just happened to note them. To be honest, they’re the two most recent unspectacular events and I just happened to feel like writing at this moment, so here they are, in order of occurance.
1. Adam was weighed and measured at the doctor’s office. (Have you…
I heard on NPR this morning that a couple of British diplomats were accused of spying on the Russians in Moscow, using equipment hidden in a rock. If this proves to be true, it will signal a change in British government at its highest levels… the outsourcing bug will have struck British Intelligence; Q having lost his job in research and development to The Sharper Image.
Those former Iron…
Friends, Romans, Countrymen… lend me your ears. We’re not in Rome, you say? A curse on you who mock my fit of whimsy!
When last I spoke of my bite of Apple lore, I was smote with glee over nine point oh four.
But you had to know that I wouldn’t be satisfied with half measures, didn’t you? This week I went whole hog and pushed the TAM to its official software limit –…