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Three guesses

Did you know that when a tanker truck leaks hydrochloric acid on a major highway, they’ll close that highway down and divert all traffic onto an alternate route?  Did you also know that this is particularly inconvenient when one is on a schedule and there really isn’t a direct alternate route to be taken?  Would […]

Overheard in the office

Most of the time, working in a cube farm is annoying.  Sometimes, however, I get to overhear rather amusing conversations on which I would otherwise miss out.  Witness:

Diagnosis: CRANKY

Yesterday when I picked up Miss T from daycare they told me that she had vomited twice, once after each solid meal.  She had also been running a low-grade fever, but not enough to call me at work.  So after that report, I began to suspect that maybe she had another stealth ear infection.  I […]

Three movie reviews.

I saw three movies over the weekend.  In their entirety, completely uninterrupted (well, almost.  When movie-watching at a home with young children there are virtually always interruptions, even if said children are supposed to be in bed.  Also, sometimes I run out of wine).  I even saw a movie within 5 years of its release […]

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! LA LA LA.

Did you hear a shriek of glee around 3:45 Central time yesterday afternoon?  If so, that was me.  That is what time I finally finished my last soul-sucking proposal of doom and handed it over to my supervisor.  Then I did a happy dance.  But in all honesty, finishing the last one was kind of […]