Wine Tastes Like High School

My sweet Richard ran to the grocery store tonight to grab some fresh veggies and a bottle of wine to go with the lovely fat porkchops I had planned for dinner.  In a hurry to beat the impending thunderstorm, he grabbed the first bottle he saw that looked appealing.  It turned out to be something [...]

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To Say “I Love You” Right Out Loud

I’m listening to Pandora this morning, which is an advisable respite from Project Playlist.  I’ve got about fifteen little radio stations set up, but this morning I’m listening to the “Air” station (the band, not the mixture of gases).
Pandora does this weird thing sometimes where it throws a completely random song into your otherwise homogenous [...]

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Damn You, Mavis Beacon

I type exceedingly fast.  I also have a high degree of accuracy when typing.  With these two skills working in harmony, I am like a typing virtuoso.  I’m not trying to brag, I’m just stating a few facts.  I enjoy typing; combined with my love of language and writing, typing gives me a sense of having completed something [...]

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World’s #1 Dad

From the brilliant mind of my friend Pancho, this story cracked me up today:
Snubbed
Mazzy is a teenager. Actually, her first birthday was in July so I’m not quite sure where she stands in dog years, but she’s already acting the moody, aloof part of a teenage girl. When it’s just the two of us everything is cool, [...]

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Back in Black

I spent eight hours today at an HR compliance seminar — sounds like a doozy, right? But this was the most bizzarre, completely awesome HR seminar I’ve ever been to (and, sadly, I’ve been to many). It began innocuously enough: a hotel meeting room with a name like “Sierra” or “Diamond” or “Martinique” or some [...]

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The Staircase

I am intimidated by the 14th floor of our building. We call it the Mausoleum due to the deathly silence — quiet as the grave — that greets you upon entering its inner sanctum through the twelve-foot-high mahogany doors.

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Wednesday

I know that we have all — every one of us — worked in an environment that, at one time or another, we have deemed to be a little slice of hell or at least a slightly more sanitized version of an insane asylum. As a teenager, my father worked grueling, hot summers in a [...]

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P.I.M.P.

I think that by now, you all know how awesome I am.  But things just got a little more awesomer in my world…I got the sweetest new computer at work yesterday!  I know that all you poor bastards are probably insanely jealous.  So to help fan the flames of your envy, I’ve included some pictures of [...]

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TaB, You’re the One For Me

So, I altered the course of my entire day by going to a different Starbucks than usual this morning on the way to work.  Don’t get all grass-roots, anti-commercialism hippie on me – you too have your own Starbucks that you know and love and value above all other Starbucks.  You have your baristas that know your [...]

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