"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Apr 27th, 2005
I agreed to chaperone for Take Your Children to Work Day tomorrow, because I've done it in the past, and it's pretty fun. It beats the hell out of office work, and really, in the past two years, we've never had any really serious disciplinary incidents. Last year one of the kids got in trouble […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Apr 27th, 2005
I’m a lazy asstard, a fact y’all probably already realize. Anyway, I have about 540 vacation photos and 10 short videos to go through so I can post them online for people to bore themselves with. ‘Cause who wants to look at pictures of people they don’t know and places they’ve never been? Actually, I […]
Posted in Distractions, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Apr 14th, 2005
Am I the only grownup outside of the CTW thinktank who doesn’t have a problem with Cookie Monster branching out into a broader and healthier range of foodstuffs with which to gorge enthusiastically? Because honestly, I’m not getting the big hairy deal here. Cookie has eaten things other than cookies before. I seem to remember […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Apr 14th, 2005
Well, I finally parked my ass down and did my tax returns. Yesss, 11th hour, how I love your fevered brow! So, we owe the IRS $33 and we’re getting $44 back from the state. Whoot. I think we actually probably don’t owe the Fed anything, but I can’t figure out how to deduct the […]
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs on Apr 12th, 2005
I rode my bicycle to work today, as I do most days between March and November. As long as the weather is borderline reasonable and it stays light out late enough to get me home before the streetlights come on, it’s biking season, and I do most of my getting around on two wheels. I’ve […]
Posted in Garden, Imports from old blogs, Photo entries on Apr 7th, 2005
Can you think of any good and logical reason why I should not plant miscellaneous pumpkins and fancy squash in my front yard? The foliage is pretty, the flowers are dramatic, and squash are cool. Plus, they’re like the ultimate groundcover. Just a couple of plants will take care of most of that pesky area […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs on Apr 4th, 2005
I went to the emergency room last night for the first time in 15 years. Last time I saw the inside of an E.R., I’d sliced the palm of my hand wide open while helping to heft an empty stock-tank over a barbed wire fence. Well, last night wasn’t anything so cool or gory. No […]