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As I was walking through the cafeteria at work today, playing “Spot the Freak” in my head, I was suddenly struck by the realization that, for some of the people present, I might be considered a good candidate for my own game. (Still and all, where do some of these people come from? The fact it [...]
We all have our own little personality quirks, most of which are so minor as to be unknowable by others. I have one that, while impossible for others to notice, is a really tough one for me to live with: I cannot STAND to hear people eat. The chewing, slurping, lip-smacking, swallowing, etc. justs grosses [...]
I passed by a guy in the cafeteria the other day who just reeked of maple syrup. Oddest thing.
The woman sitting next to me in a meeting was making the occasional note (in varying colors) on her hand… despite the entire notebook of paper she’d brought. Um, huh?
I have somehow developed a reputation among co-workers, friends, and family (and others) as a “car guy.” Maybe I misunderstand what they mean, but I certainly don’t consider myself to be one: To me, a car guy (or, uh, “gal” if you think of Marisa Tomei’s character in “My Cousin Vinnie”) is someone who knows [...]
If your DLP HDTV has recently developed a horrible, high-pitched, “buzzsaw” noise, it’s more than likely a bad bearing in the color wheel. The sound is NOT going to get any better, so your options are to spend big bucks to have someone come to your house to fix it, or you can spend about [...]
Finally, FINALLY… Child #2 slept through the night for the first time. Well, technically the second time (there was that one glorious night several months ago), but the first time she woke up and got herself back to sleep. And only after a bit more than 13 months of depriving her parents of much-needed sleep. [...]
I miss being part of a team. Actually, I am technically part of a team, but the work is fairly individual in nature so it doesn’t feel like much of a team. Hell, I’m not even in the same building as the rest of the team. I miss the collaborative, “let’s get this figured out” [...]
There’s been much fuss in the news lately about people getting scammed out of money by depositing legitimate-seeming cashier’s checks/bank drafts and “returning” some of the money by request, only to find out that Surprise! the check’s not real. These news reports even make a point about how people at the banks are fooled, too, [...]
to lose custody of your children—and young children, at that—to Kevin Federline, fer cryin’ out loud? Pretty damned bad, I’d guess. I haven’t been following Britney’s problems lately (or at all, really), so maybe there’s much more to this than it appears but, frankly, I can’t imagine how bad she has to be for Kevin Federline [...]