Today I took a vacation day from work. I raked leaves and wrassled electricity. Most fulfilling, however, was getting takeout from Esparza’s Tex-Mex restaurant for our lunch. A day with buffalo tacos is like a day back when men shot large beasts with long guns while riding other large beasts.
In the recent past I have joined a couple of social networking sites, one at the invitation of my sister, the other at the urging of my wife. I’ve found it surprising how easy and pressure-free it is to reconnect with old friends. Some of them have gone on to impressive things, including one who […]
I have just finished putting up our Christmas lights. All two of them:
Seems like some of the information released here could have been announced at this time. I’m sure essentially being called a liar (“I don’t understand how you can say you feel comfortable with your capital position, and yet you say you can’t give us any idea what the number is,” he said. “At this point, […]
It turns out that the cubicle neighbor whose perfume gags me on occasion is not insensitively over-applying it and ignoring its effect on her co-workers. Rather, the body odor of the guy who waters the plants on our floor provokes her into a defensive spraying of the scent. She apologized to me if she’d overdone […]
I like to browse the daily market news each morning, even those with no direct bearing on my job. The chart above of crude oil futures is courtesy of the WSJ. It makes me larf, recalling the solemn prognostications of professional oil analysts that $150 oil was here to stay, and $200 oil was almost […]
I have a Siamese Fighting fish (betta splendens) named Jesús. He was purchased last December to replace Frankie II, who replaced Phrankie Fish. Both those prior fish lived with us less than a year. Here’s hoping Jesús lives into a second year chez nous, though he’s looking a bit sluggish these days so I’m taking […]
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