There once was a movie about fish that wasn’t really about fish. It was called Fish! It was the story of a fish market where people really love to work and want to tell others about it. They have fun, they are there for others, they choose their attitude, and one other thing that I can’t immediately recall. All I can say is it is a lot easier to choose your attitude when someone…
“Oh brother. Someone is suing Janet Jackson because she suffered ‘anger, outrage, and personal injury’ after watching the Super Bowl half time show.”
“Well, maybe she was watching the special ‘3-D’ presentation of the Super Bowl and lurched back when ‘shocking episode’ took place, falling off her perch and knocking herself out on an end…
Have you ever had someone approach you and say, “hey , how the heck are you! I haven’t seen you in ages. You haven’t changed a bit.” I don’t think anyone has ever said that to me. Hell, I look in the mirror and I wonder who it is on the other side. Just this evening I was gazing upon my mug wondering who the hell I am. When did my face get so thick? When did my…
Sometimes, having a window office is not all it’s cracked up to be. First, there’s the productivity problem. For those of us who are easily distracted, a window to the great outdoors can be disasterous. Then there’s the good old green house effect. You give me a window facing the sun and I’ll give you a hot office. Finally, there’s a sense of loss when you have a…
There will always be times where your roof springs a leak, your water heater lets loose an Old Testament flood, your child acts up in school, you don’t get that new job you wanted, your favorite computer dies, you can’t shake an awful cold, or Bob Villa decides your house isn’t good enough for him.
What does Bob Villa know anyway? He can take his crapy Craftsman socketless…
… 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…