One of my favorite commercials of all time is an Office Depot add. A man and his children are walking through the isles of Office Depot with a familiar Christmas season tune playing in the background – setting the mood. The father is happily lip-syncing the words to the song as he glides down the isle. The children are dragging each step as if they are being led to their own execution. The…
I take it all back. I don’t want to be sick. A vanilla fever is o.k., but headaches are hell. Since my last post I’ve had the kind of chronic sinus headache that makes you want a “big gun” pain killer. For me, that big gun is a combination of Motrin and Sudafed. Tragically, I was Motrin free at the office today. What’s worse that not having any Motrin? Not having the…
Taking a sick day is a wonderful thing. Get beyond the whole “sick” thing and a sick day is a marvelous void in an otherwise busy life. This was my lot in the grand scheme of life on this day. For half the day nothing interrupted my quiet, peaceful delirium. Laying peacefully in a darkened, cool room with nothing to keep me company but my confused, vacant thoughts… ah…
I was talking with a friend of mine and somehow Microsoft became a topic of conversation. We talked about the different aspects of life that Microsoft seemed to be involving itself with: PCs, PDAs, entertainment devices, secure internet commerce, … and the list goes on. The talk took a head first dive into a deep and fertile pool of conversation when I made the comment: “It worries me…
I was driving home this evening and I passed a car with more than it’s share of post- 09/11th, flag waving bumper stickers. There was one in particular that stood out. It was the one with an eagle standing in front of a flowing, striped background. The message was: “WE STAND UNITED… THESE COLORS DON’T RUN!” And what about those colors? Rather than the expected red…
Any schmuck can part his lips and blow wind across his vocal cords. The real trick is to string together sounds that someone wants to hear, otherwise it’s just so much noise. But wait, is it really important to always say what someone wants hear? Is there some value in pointing out the things that someone doesn’t want to see? Well, the answer to this question, like many of the great…
What is in store for me now? Well, tomorrow we’re going to church. Cheryl and I decided that we would carpool to church tomorrow (a bit of an inside joke that I’m not going to explain). Not much is going on at this point. We are between major events, and what’s more, there are no imminent plans for another major event. What’s a guy to do? The last think I need to do right…
A young man speaks with a young woman at a theme park. He tries to be cool but he comes across awkward. When he walks away the girl laughs, seemingly at the young man’s expense. Is this me?
The scene was real, but I was only an observer. I felt pity for the young man until my thoughts turned inward. It was then that I wondered how often I have been the young man in scenes like this. How…