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After years of taking 2 or 3 weeks of vacation at the end of the year, rather than losing them, I find myself in the odd situation of working the day after Christmas. A friend of mine called early in the day and we chatted and goofed for probably 15–20 minutes. Near the end of [...]
My youngest daughter, who’s a bit more than a year old, has turned into some kind of “kissing bandit” of late. She’ll smooch anybody who’ll hold still long enough. She practically makes out with the cat. As you might expect, a puckered-up smoocheroo from my little angel frequently gets a syrupy ”Awww…!” reaction from the target [...]
For many years I’ve said that, should I somehow become indolently wealthy, I would like to return to school in order to learn how to operate big, yellow construction vehicles. I’m thinking mainly of that tracked, backhoe-like bastard (I think they’re called excavators), but I think they’re all awesome. All my Tonka trucks that I so [...]
The janitors in most of the places I’ve worked at cram the Z-fold paper towel dispensers as full as possible so that they don’t have to fill them as often. But super-packed paper towel dispensers also result in dramatically increased rates of wastage, as large numbers of towels get torn and shredded until enough have [...]
All you have to do is schedule an appointment to have the noise fixed. Guaranteed to make the noise go away, at least until the day after your trip to the mechanic. Â (No, the answer is NOT to leave your spouse at home. Smartass.)
As the designated “night owl” in my house—heck, even the cat tends to snore his way through the night—it falls to me to check that everyone’s snuggled tight into their beds. In the case of daughter #1, this means rearranging whatever chaotic mess she’s created out of her sheets, blanket, and assorted stuffed animals. I [...]
ARGH! I see this all the time, in e-mail messages, in Web articles, and even in the news, and it’s driving me nuts: Can we please figure out the difference between “lose” and “loose?” Lose: A verb meaning to fail to maintain possession (“She lost her purse.”) or to fail to win (“We lost the [...]