I always wanted my name painted on the office door.
Not really. I’d get in trouble. For speaking the truth to power, I suppose. With a smirk. A young guy comes to my door and has a quick three question survey. There were five choices in the first question “what do you rank as most important to you”, and the “options” left me thinking I was [...]
All of them. They piled into the minivan for their various Wednesday night church activities. I offered my benedictions and walked into the house, letting out a cheer that made Helen and Kenny and Bunny the bunny all jump. The whole house to myself. The plan is to finish my Greek study. That’s always been the habit [...]
…yearningly remembering her days of beauty and attention. My blog traffic is back to normal. Normal is nice. I’m actually always surprised at how many folks drop by and linger for a while. But the last two days put these huge spikes on my traffic chart, and it’s making my formerly quite acceptable traffic look [...]
My lovely bride and I need to get out of the house. A movie? A dinner? A stroll in a park? A shopping trip? A trip to Tahiti? We use babysitters for obligation-type stuff so often that we rarely get one for just plain fun. What should we do? A photo from our last date.
I drove by a local fitness chain and they had a sign out front: “$59.99 - Lose 10 pounds in 30 days!” Sure, if you pay in nickels.
My Lovely Bride’s post about me peaked a smidgen of curiosity, so I’ve decided to tell a wonderfully embarrassing story about myself. I hate a dirty windshield. My nice little gumball of a Nissan Sentra had an ever-dirty windshield. It drove me nuts. Seriously. As you will see. I decided it was all the drive-through, no-touch car [...]
This week I was promoted to Vice President of Production and Technology for Simply Retail, Inc., and I will be going full time starting in April. (I’ve been four days a week until now.) Very exiting stuff! :) Co-workers emailed me congratulations, and I replied: “By the time I got home, I was so drunk with [...]
I haven’t posted for a while, so I thought I’d tell a story. I filed it under “I Crack Me Up”, so it technically needs only amuse me. And perhaps that will be the case. Recently, Helen and I attended a small trade group convention. Helen was hired to sing a few sets of “american classics”; [...]
Helen often wakes up to the alarm playing the soundtrack CD from Sophie’s Choice. It’s nice, gentle, a little wistful. Anyway, when she wasn’t looking, I cranked up iTunes, copied the CD, and made a new one with the first song the same as always (to give her that sense of familiarity), but the second song [...]