They look like a telephone pole, except slightly thinner on one end, and they’re not exactly the first thing I’d think of for tossing through the air. But today we watched a handful of grown men dressed in an oddly amusing combination of T-shirt and kilt, heft those telephone poles into the air and flip […]
My parents got T-shirts while at the Scottish games. His read ‘Orthodox Druid’ and hers read ‘Reformed Druid’. They drew lots of attention when they wore them at the Renaissance Faire yesterday. One man pointed out that perhaps this meant that they got Arbor Day off from work. We joked about mom wearing it to […]
Friday night I flew up to Portland. I’d been looking forward to the trip, antsy all day, watching the clock as the hands slowly crept toward 4 pm when I could leave to go stand in the cattle line for Southwest and still get a decent seat because too many business trips have taught me […]
You’ve been eyeing them for a while. You’ve seen the commercials and read the ads and even seen a few of them in acquaintances’ houses and you’ve been thinking about it for a while, but it has always seemed, well, so extravagant to spend all that money. But you’ve got all those cats and you’ve […]
In the past nearly-four years I’ve had the same office, and the same desk. However, my company name has changed three times, each time growing larger.
The first two names knew that we existed. Our little satellite office was never slighted, forgotten, or otherwise missing from any mass communications sent out - not, of course, that […]
I’m getting two new sisters out of this marriage thing, as is Richard. I had dinner with my soon-to-be almost-twin sister-in-law on Monday night (almost-twin because she’s only five days older than me). She and a handful of her coworkers were at UCDavis for training, so I left work early (funny how lately 6pm is […]
It started out innocently enough, so many years ago. My college roommate and I had three cats between us, and for whatever reason, we went to the local animal shelter to look at the kittens. Recognizing the giant neon flashing ‘Sucker!’ signs embedded in our foreheads, one of the SPCA volunteers who works out there […]
I’ve been looking to mid-October with growing anticipation, knowing that the end of full-stage development for this project was in sight and that afterwards maybe, just maybe, the work hours would decrease enough to give me the feeling that I could relax. This isn’t likely now, not when I’ve had hundreds of hours more development […]
This weekend was just for us, but we didn’t go anywhere romantic, although candles were involved. We attended an Engaged Encounter weekend, which is an event put together specifically for engaged couples to give them methods for open and honest communication to lay the groundwork for healthy and happy marriages.
There have been many questions asked […]
The builder called Friday to let me know that the city has requested some seismic calculations be done on our plans. Having no luck getting the information from the place where I bought the plans, he’s now trying to find an engineer who has the time to look at them. He’s not sure of how […]
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