… but first an update on the water heater saga…
The last time we touched on this issue, the plumber had managed to botch two sequential appointments with a city inspector – one of which cost me 400mg of Ibuprofen. As you may recall, an inspection is required when a water heater is installed in our corner of existence.
Now that everyone is up to date, here’s the latest…
Every now and again I am tempted to loaf at work. Loafing is an official department term, defined in the code of conduct as: spending time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. How can I help my mind wandering now and again? No one is perfect, not even the famous Revenue Specialist III of the Clearwater
Court Team (sure, it doesn’t have quite the punch of “Archbishop of…
It is at once odd and nice, having someone preen on your behalf. Sitting in my capacity as “the administrative hearings guy”, I had to sit through one compliment after another from the Administrative Law Judge. As my astute readers have probably surmised, he’s the guy that presides over the administrative hearings. As it turns out, he does them statewide, driving from location to…
The once mighty Patriots are mighty once again. My original home team has won the Super Bowl, keeping my streak alive at three. My two favorite professional football teams have won the last three Super Bowls. While I was growing up the Patriots had two chances but didn’t come particularly close, and the Bucs… well, they just weren’t close period. Now they do the unthinkable, the…
This morning I have been a husband possessed. I’ve been running around doing housework like someone with another X chromosome. (OOH is that going to fetch me a slap!) So for the first time in the brief history of the Kauffman household, version 2.2 (I don’t ever get tired of that one), I beat my bride to the drier alarm. Before Cheryl could even sigh, I was in the laundry room…
Lying is bad. It is deceitful, it can catch up with you, and it is just plain not nice. Having said that, there is a certain amount of pleasure in fibbing for sport. There is a little game we engage in at the office. Someone uncorks a whopper and someone else is supposed to call them on it. The sport is in trying to come up with the most outrageous lie without being called on it.
“No, I…
I think the biggest scam going in the tech world isn’t the Nigerian email con – it’s ink jet printers. You can buy a new printer for about the cost to replace the ink. No, I’m not kidding. To replace the two cartridges in my Epson printer will cost me $48.00. The price of a low end HP color printer is $49.99. Apples and oranges, you say? True, the HP replacements would be…