Lack of Imagination/Off with her Head! Like everybody else in the civilized world, I’ve heard some news reports concerning the 9/11 commission. The most striking statement, to me, being the big “lack of imagination” assertion.…
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My Inner Nurdette Today, in lieu of going for lunch, we went to Fry’s, our local electronics mega-super store. For most people, a trip to a place like Fry’s is nothing special. They go into…
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Life, Death, and all the Trappings I was talking with a friend the other day about 9/11. I told her about my classmate, Peter, and about how I thought he would have been one of…
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I’m So Full, take That! Harumph! As if feeling boxed in weren’t enough, we went for lunch today to a Pho Vietnamese place up in Round Rock. It was rather odd being in Round Rock…
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I’m Feeling so Boxed in It’s official. I moved my computer desk, computer, and all into the front room of my house. Now I have a front-room office setup I refer to as the “front…
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Century City It was 100 degrees today in River City. Hot and rather unpleasant. Despite the heat, I managed to get a few things done today, although it was mostly work around the house.…
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Out of Time Usually, when it’s Friday, I run out of stuff to do at the end of the week. Fridays tend to be really slow for me, especially as I usually work late or…
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No Felony Bagels, No, Not Today I opted instead to avoid the entire ghetto scene up at the ritzy Avery Ranch subdivision and instead hit Tuscany, the pseudo-Italian cafe (complete with fake tile walls!) near…
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It’s a Food Omen from Vending Machine Hell Those who regularly read my website, and I know about all two of you, know that I seldom write about my employer(s). There’s a few good reasons…
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It’s a Big House for You! I burnt my lunch today. I had one of those microwave lunches. Put the damned thing in the nuker, and started shooting pool. The box was really explicit saying,…
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It’s the Status Quo Here’s my latest status: I still have a lot of boxes I did not go through or empty out. I fixed the drapery in my front bedroom, after patching the wall,…
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I’m Still OFF work and ON vacation At the sound of the beep, please leave your name and number and (maybe) I’ll blog back at you. BEEP Mohinder writes, “Kalim (perhaps) is in Pakistan! Any…
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She Bangs, She Bangs We celebrated the 4th of July this past weekend. It’s a great time of year, made especially great by the fact that I’m off work all week. Yes, I said, in…
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Not For All the Cars in Hollywood It’s been raining here in Austin. It’s been raining a lot. Everyday for about the past week. Some folks have taken to complaining about it (I seem to…
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“Take the Spiderman Bowling, Take him Bowling” We went bowling this weekend. Reed the Weed bowled something that was like 6 pins shy of 200. Funny part was it was like the third game and…
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Cast of Characters It dawned upon me the other day that, while I continue to talk of several folks, probably some of the folks reading this don’t know everybody here. While it’s true that not…
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It’s that old Cliche of Summer Today I was talking with somebody and I said, “it’s like he cut off his nose to spite his face.” We all resort to cliches. We can’t help it.…
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It’s the Fear of Blogging The other day, I was talking with somebody and he said he would email me a response. A few hours later, I got an email that started out, “At the…
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It’s on that part of the World that Passed me by Imagine, if you will, a giant spinning blue ball. It’s spinning out in space, with a moon rotating around it, revolving around a sun,…
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Skip the Shoes and Go Barefoot Sex and the City was as much about the shoes and clothing as it was about the women sitting around, sipping martinis, and talking about men. I mean, they…
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