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As Precious As The Colonel Constitution
2008-09-10 03:38:00
I read online this morning that the famous KFC recipe of 11 peaches and herbs and spices (yeah, I added peaches because I just can?t have my herbs without my peaches ? it just doesn?t sound right) was being moved for the first time in a long while. Of course, I also saw a headline saying that biologists are closing in on a way to create a new form of life, so it was important not to confuse the two. The recipe is being temporarily moved because the security around the single piece of paper containing the recipe needs to be upgraded. This is apparently some pretty serious stuff. Cops, security guards, security firms, the EPA, the FDIC, the TGIF ? everybody?s involved with this thing. You would think this recipe ranks right up there with our country?s major documents like The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the cocktail napkin containing the original lyrics for Louie Louie.The story said that only 2 ?anonymous? executives have access to the original recipe. The...
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The Most Interesting Man In The World (And No, It?s Not Mo Roca Or Alan Gre
2008-09-09 03:51:00
I?ve been wanting to write about this topic for awhile now but just didn?t have enough info to do so. I know what you are thinking this is about, but no, it?s not about Thomas Crapper, inventor of the toilet. That being said however, we kind of owe that guy a lot. Sometimes I get flush just thinking about it. Nor is it about Gene Rayburn, host of Match Game AND Match Game 76, which was like getting to hang out with your grandparents when they were drinking and cool. Without him, we would never have been able to end our sentences with the word ?blank,? as in ?Jimmy and Judy want to have another child, but Jimmy keeps shooting blank.? Wait, that?s not the best example to feature the whole ?blank? thing. Let?s try this one, ?Sally forgot to tell Willy that he blanked her the other day at the park.? You know what, I might be better at answering those than actually writing them. Ah, but I did like cocktail hour with the seniors. Charles Nelson Reilly, Betty White, Richard Daws...
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Unavoidable Repost: If Only Don Pardo Was My Tag Along Friend?
2008-09-07 18:47:00
Ok friends, here's the excuse deal.  Due to TS Hanna (wow, imagine when we get to a tropical storm named 'Elliott.'  Yanno, TS Elliott- the author.  It's still not funny when I have to explain it, is it) making her way up the Eastern Sea Board, the NASCAR races for both Friday night and Saturday night had to be postponed until Sunday.  Obviously you could care less, though you will discover below why I felt I needed to mention that.What it essentially means is that I will be far too busy today (which is defined in this case as completely unproductive and catatonic on the couch watching almost 700 miles of racing, except for the part where we take the twins to their friend's B-Day party.  There will be a clown there, so I'm actually looking forward to it.  I'm hoping the clown will make me a balloon animal shaped like a big normal round balloon  - even though that is more of a wish than a definition).  The anticipated state of busyness will prevent me from putting together my ...
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Random As The Week Goes By
2008-09-05 03:48:00
I?m trying for the philosophic angle with my title this week. And as I have been doing the last few weeks on Random Fridays, I would like to introduce you to Paul Simon. I reference him below and I find it shocking, appalling and just downright unnerving that most of my coworkers are not familiar with his music. Oh sure, they?ve HEARD of Simon and Garfunkel, but then Garfunkel is as distinct and memorable a name as Butts, Hasselhoff, Obama and Smith. Let?s face it; once you?ve heard it, you are not going to forget Garfunkel. And, it?s fun to say. A lot of fun to say. It?s Garfunkally or Garfunkalicious, if you will, or won?t. It?s your choice.Simon however? Not as memorable. Perhaps this is Paul?s problem. At any rate, I wanted to introduce him to you, just in case you are in the same boat (The USS Unawareness) as my coworkers. If it makes you feel better while reading this, you can ?call me Al.? But then it is readily apparent that I am ?still crazy after all these yea...
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Uh, Finally!
2008-09-04 03:24:00
It has finally happened. The wait is finally over. As I finally prepared to write about this, I couldn?t help but think that I use the word finally too much and how weird the word finally sounds when you say it over and over. Finally . Fine-uhlly? Fine-alley? More importantly, I also thought about how the time is way overdue for the eventuality of which I am about to speak. And the beauty of this for you, the reader, is that you get to guess what I am talking about and I will award more bonus points to be redeemed at fine truck stop travel centers everywhere to the blogger with the correct guess. Aww crap, you just looked at the picture, didn?t you. Well so much for the contest?The fine city of Milwaukee, which is Algonquin for ?Beautiful Land? as Alice Cooper taught us all in Wayne?s World, has honored its television heritage. The city recently unveiled a bronze statue of the coolest leather clad motorcycle riding thumb sticking upping ayyying jukebox punching ruffian ever ...

Wait, You Mean It?s Over?
2008-09-03 03:16:00
Well friends, the Beach Boys and the Buffett have been put away. I better clarify that. The Buffett as in Jimmy, not buffet as in I?m going to go back 5 times and only put one item on each new plate just because I can, has been packed away. The flags have been stored, the pool has been covered and the last wonderful BBQ has been conducted under the summer sun (blue cheese burgers, in case you were wondering). Ok, none of those things has actually happened yet, I mean I live in Southern California for Mother Nature?s sake. Weather wise we have about another month of summer out here. The kids are in school though, but they started July 28th, so summer in the ?no school? sense started over a month ago for us. At least Lucy and Ethel have October left so that they can be out of school for summer. Our summer. The So Cal summer. If I haven?t lost you yet, please feel free to read on. Then you can explain to me what I was trying to write in my clouded head, summer is over, what ...
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Q & A Monday Sunday Holiday Edition
2008-09-01 01:59:00
First off, to quote one of my favorite SNL characters (Christopher Walken?s ?The Continental?), I just have to say ?Wow Wee Wow,? did you all come through with the Q?s for my A?s this week. I suppose if you read what I just wrote very quickly, it might sound like I was saying ?you really came through with the cures for my a$$ this week.? Because this is a family blog, the a$$ in this case would be my donkey. Seriously, the ?a? word is in the Bible, so I feel pretty confident in using it. Sadly however, ?hilariosity is not.? There really is no logical explanation for me having just informed you of that, but let?s face it, the more the word gets used, the better chance it will end up in the dictionary or be recited by James Earl Jones in his Darth Vadery voice.And once that happens, I can pass away peacefully someday knowing that my headstone will say something like ?here lies the man who invented the word ?hilariosity because he was not smart enough to know that the word ?hilarity? a...
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It?s So Random It Almost Seems Planned
2008-08-29 07:07:00
It?s the end of the week again, holiday style! I was going to follow up last week?s introduction to Marty Robbins with a refresher on Karen Carpenter (she is not the person on the left, although the undeniable similarities are striking), because her voice was equally amazing. However, I fear doing so might overshadow Random Friday and lead to something like ?Music you would never be caught listening to, but Michael thinks you should know about anyway.? And let?s face it, that is way too long of a title. So, in keeping with tradition, I present a bunch of random stuff that has been laying around for a few days instead. It?s like a garage sale of really bad ideas, just without the hand made signs and arrows directing you to my front yard.* Why aren?t there more opportunities to use the word ?Fragile? in our daily lives so that we can say it like Ralphie Parker?s Dad in ?A Christmas Story??* I learned a very big lesson this week. I have been giving Ms. I Want To Go To Mime School...

Hilariosity Ensues.
2008-08-28 03:41:00
Ok, I?ve had that title in my head since I woke up this morning. Then I typed it and realized that with the Democratic National Convention going on right now, you might think this is a Hillary Clinton post. Sorry for misleading you. The title is actually supposed to be interpreted as: ?hilariosity ? adj. a fabricated and nonsensical word used to convey that something was hilarious. The word is usually applied when the author cannot think of a suitable real word, which has since been anonymously pointed out as being ?hilarity,? but then the whole definition gimmick would be shot, so ?hilariosity? stays. The word is also used when one of the author?s life goals is to have one of his (or her) words coined in the national lexicon, added to the dictionary and to be said during a National news broadcast by someone newsy and believable like Brian Williams or Anderson Cooper and maybe even Walter Cronkite or Tom Brokaw, even though they both are retired. I The author also uses the word...

Seriously? Seriously? Nawwwwww
2008-08-27 03:31:00
I was surfing the web yesterday, ok I was boogie boarding the web the other day and came across a very interesting story on Conde Nast?s Portfolio website. Don?t worry; I haven?t gone all high brow, it?s just that the caption on Yahoo said something like ?man makes a living with Legos.? Now how in the heck could I see that and not click it. It would be like seeing that you have new mail and ignoring it, not having ants rush to the Diet Mountain Dew you spilled all over your brand new patio (I?m starting to get over that, thank you very much) or smelling bacon and not running to find the source.I read the story and sure enough, it says that a former Wall Street attorney now makes six figures building Lego-y things. That?s right, Laaaaayyyy-Goooooos (I hope you read that slowly and sarcastically, because that?s how I said it. Not that you need tips on how to read what I write, but I just wanted you to get the full effect of my disbelief, jealousy and general Whiskey Tango Foxtrot reac...

What I Did On My Summer Vacation Work Time
2008-08-26 08:58:00
Remember all those ?what I did this summer? things we had to write at the beginning of every school year. In ?A Christmas Story? they called them ?themes? but I don?t remember what we called them at my school, though ?pain in the arse? comes to mind. With that being said, I shall honor the traditional last week of summer by writing what I did this past summer just for you. For musical accompaniment, may I suggest a few songs? There is the Lettermen song that was also covered by the Beach Boys ? ?Things We Did Last Summer ,? The Beach Boys? ?All Summer Long,? The Beach Boys? ?Keep An Eye On Summer? (there?s a pattern here, but I can?t put my finger on it) or Kid Rock?s ?All Summer Long,? for the hipper kids in the audience. You could also play it safe by using any Jimmy Buffett song (or for a melancholy end of summer accompaniment, may I suggest Jimmy?s ?When the Coast is Clear? or Billy Joel?s ?Famous Last Words?). That?ll really help you keep it real while you are reading thi...
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Q & A Monday
2008-08-25 01:18:00
I have thoroughly enjoyed Q & A Monday s. Much like my Ipod after work, I?m glad I brought it back. It?s a simple concept really, I ask you for questions, you provide them and I answer them with as little effort possible. And that leads to me a little issue with this week?s Q & A session. You see, as I detailed above, the whole process depends on my asking you for questions and then you submitting them. Hence the little dilemma I am facing this week. Apparently, (and I blame the Olympics and possibly the higher prices for corn) I forgot to ask you for questions at the end of last week. In fact, I straight up completely neglected to mention it. While I enjoyed writing last Thursday?s post, I can assure you that the joy was not great enough for me to have forgotten to remind you to send me your burning questions. Inadvertently, I extinguished the questional flame. I realize that questional is not a word and that I probably just mixed metaphors for burning and stuff, b...

More Friday (through Sunday) Randomocity
2008-08-22 03:35:00
It?s finally the end of the week. NASCAR is at Bristol Motor Speedway under the lights and beef ribs are in the freezer. Before we start the randomness today though, I?d like to introduce you to the man on the left there. His name is Marty Robbins. A few of the visitor?s here had never heard of him when I mentioned him yesterday. I am aware that the picture does nothing to help you realize that you have indeed heard his work before, but I can?t figure out how to post a song on my blog and most of you would probably not appreciate my emailing you his most recognized song, El Paso. Perhaps I should sing it on my next podcast. Yep, that was a joke?* Does anyone else find it odd that female Olympic runners wear what is practically a bikini bottom when running, but wear full body suits when they swim? Do you think they ever feel overdressed?* When going to a completely unnecessary demonstration off work property for more than half a day, never, under any circumstance, say not one...
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The Culmination Of All My Hard Work (Or Thinking About Hard Work) May Have
2008-08-21 03:11:00
So, here?s the deal my friends, I used to lobby for a change to our calendars. In effect, I wanted to turn Monday into Funday, thus doing away with the worst day of the week, Monday. I wrote about it here back in August or September of 2006. Instituting Funday would basically make it a second Sunday, even though that would technically make Tuesday the new Monday and then we?d crappy up what has normally been an inoffensive day for most people, but much like toxic atmospheric destroying gasses in the developing world, we?d just overlook it.I?ve been reading a lot online and even in Time Magazine (are you impressed, because that?s why I read Time Magazine to be able to say that I read Time Magazine. Time Magazine) about school districts moving to a 4-day school week to save money, like electricity and bussing costs and yes, the lunch lady down in Lunch Lady Land (note to self: prepare sloppy joes for dinner tonight). Some of these school districts are taking Friday off and other...
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I?m Looking At The Menu, But Nothing Sounds Good
2008-08-20 03:22:00
So, here?s the deal: I just got home from a long work day and I?m only running on one wondrous hour of sleep. 9 out of 10 doctors say that?s not enough. I tend to agree with them. I thought long and hard (that?s what she said ? because you can never be too anything to miss a TWSS opportunity) about what to post, but I swear to you that my fingers are hitting the keyboard with what seems like a several second delay. This isn?t good because I tend to lose a thought before I can ? aw crap, I already forgot where I was going with this.I am left with what I am told is a conundrum. I?m pretty sure it?s a condominium but I also realize I shouldn?t be arguing with someone who was sleeping while I was softly humming The Beatles? ?I?m So Tired? last night. Hence, we shall use conundrum, which in this case refers to whether or not I should try to write something good because I like to post daily, or to search for a good repost since I can?t leave yesterday?s post up due to the fact that ...
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Ho Ho No!
2008-08-19 03:02:00
Ahhh, it?s that time of year when the weather becomes unbearable and a young man?s thoughts turn to cooler weather and the flurries of winter. While that may or may not actually happen, it did give me an appropriate intro to today?s topic ? Santa Claus. What? Santa Claus? As in the big guy? The Jolly dude in red? Yep, but even better - how about several hundred jolly dudes in red, most of who are currently seeing red. I recently heard on NPR and read online about a nasty feud occurring within the Amalgamated Order of Real-Bearded Santas (AORBS). Though no one has been around this blog long enough to remember (although it?s probably like no one wants to admit being around this blog long enough), I actually wrote about the AORBS meeting in Branson, Missouri as one of my very first blog posts back in the summer of 2006. So, it brought back memories and stuff when I came across them in the news again. I guess a summer convention of the Amalgamated Order of Real-Bearded Santas i...

It?s The Day For Q&A. Yay!
2008-08-18 06:19:00
I really do like rhyming. I won?t go so far as to say I bust a mad rhyme, partially because I have no idea what that means, but I do enjoy it. It?s Monday again and what better way to get back into that workweek mode than some questions and answers. I find its structured format perfect for preparing me to put my dreams aside and obey someone else?s commands. With that said, let?s get started!As usual, please don?t repeat my answers, mostly because I did not research them, but also because I?m writing these at night this time and made the mistake of taking my prescribed sleeping aid BEFORE I sat down to type. Actually, that illustrates another reason why you should not repeat my answers or use the ?knowledge? gained from them to impress your friends: I?m not that bright. Seriously, my dimmer switch is set way down towards the low position, almost off. Oh yeah, one other thing, I usually overlook someone?s submitted question because of my faulty filing and organization skills, which i...

Randomocity Friday
2008-08-15 03:18:00
It?s the weekend! Well almost, but we?re still close enough to it for me to be able to yell ?It?s the weekend!? Seriously, before you continue, just yell it once. There, doesn?t that feel good. Nothing beats a summer weekend, except for maybe a fall weekend. But then a spring weekend is so nice and pleasant. Actually, here in So Cal, winter weekends aren?t that bad either. Ok, nothing beats ANY weekend. Can I get an amen? Yeah, that was probably a bit over the top. I?ll try to tone it down for next week...* Apparently me and my coworker telling a secretary in the office that ?we work really hard, our jobs are very stressful? while we are eating ice cream with our feet up on his desk doesn?t come across as very credible. It probably didn?t help that we said that while our mouths were full.* I?m not sure which was worse last week ? the fact that Rite Aid had Halloween candy and decorations already for sale or the fact that I used that as an excuse to ask if we could go ahe...
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When The Coffee?s Cold And The Donuts Are Hard
2008-08-14 03:27:00
I?m really not sure that title is related to what I am going to write, but I thought it was catchy and usually describes the state of things in my office around 10AM each day. It used to be about 11AM, but now that I have to get Lucy and Ethel to school by 7:45 each morning, I get into the office earlier, which actually means on time. However, I still have to leave at the same time I used to. This means that I am somehow working an extra hour more than I did before. I?m hoping this describes the mind-numbing fatigue I feel each day around 4PM. I know I?ve said this before but people who work 8 hours (in a row, on the same day and in an office setting, mind you) amaze me. Forget all the Olympians we?ve been giving medals to since Friday, these office troopers are the real heroes. Talk about an Olympian effort. I took up a little project when I had the day off one day. Do you know all the things you can accomplish in 8 hours? You can drive from my home to Las Vegas and back a...
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Cooking Up The Dough
2008-08-13 03:36:00
Ok, I am just going to warn you right up front that this post will mention Rachael Ray, possibly several times. With that being said, feel free to click elsewhere. No, better yet, head down there on the right and check out my archived posts. Alrighty, for the two or three of you still left, thanks for sticking around. I?ll try to make it worth your time, even though you aren?t out any money, which really lowers the bar for me. However, I will try to excel for you. Or better yet, I will actually get to the point of this post before you too navigate to someplace else. Oh hey, The Carpenters? ?For All We Know? just came on the ole Ipod. What a peaceful song that is. I was reading on Forbes.com recently about the top earning celebrity chefs. (Warning: here comes my first Rachael Ray mention) Would you believe that Rachael Ray is the top celebrity chef? I think her total was like 16 million a year. That even beat out Wolfgang Puck, who when he found out that Rachael (oops, for...
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The Obligatory (But Not In A Bad Way) Olympic Post
2008-08-12 03:42:00
It seems for some reason that I am the last blogger to be posting about, or to at least mention, the Olympic s. I guess that?s par for the course for me. I?m usually the last to catch on. This is most noticeable when it comes to fashion. For example, I only recently got through my Birkenstocks phase and I still think Hawaiian shirts count as ?dressing up.? But enough about that, this is about the Olympics.I have been an Olympic junkie since the 1984 games in Los Angeles. I was in elementary school at the time and freaked out about how cool the Olympics were. Anyone remember Sam, the Olympic mascot eagle? That was a rhetorical question, of course. While I don?t remember a lot of moments about those games (aside from Mary Decker?s horrific fall and Lionel Richie performing ?All Night Long? during the closing ceremonies), I remember watching every event I could and seeing the Olympic torch being run through Newport Beach in a Mercedes convertible. Yes, I made the convertible p...
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Q & A Monday
2008-08-11 03:35:00
It?s Q & A Monday again, but before I go any further, I need to preface what you are about to read by telling you that Lucy and Ethel are mere feet from me playing their Barbie keyboard and guitar in their ?band? while I type this. So, if what you are reading suddenly stops making sense, it?s because a grown man?s head just exploded. My head. Now, with that out of the way, I will gladly answer the questions that you, the reader, submitted to me, the writer, during this last week.A few notes of interest before we begin: I don?t research my answers because that would take up too much time and energy, so it?s best that you don?t repeat them to anyone that you either want to impress, need a favor from, or who might hire you for reasons of employment. I also usually forget at least one submitter?s question. And, I like cheese ?it gets mentioned from time to time.Ok, with all the legal gumbo out of the way, this week?s first question hails from, Aislinge. I don?t know that questions c...

Random Thoughts Friday
2008-08-08 03:08:00
Well we made it through another week. We are now firmly ensconced in August, though I?m not sure I used ensconced correctly (but something about the word makes me crave a scone, even though I have never had one). That?s the problem with big words. Using them is like playing with fire, or more specifically, playing with a bottle of lighter fluid after you have already lit the charcoal. It might be flashy, but it?s not a ?bright? idea, if you catch my drift. Use the big word correctly and you look like a Mensa King. Use it incorrectly and you get burned. And if you think that?s a random thought, you?re wrong, it?s a segue. And speaking of segues, check these out?* At the Angels game the other night, we sat in their semi-exclusive right field restaurant called The Knothole Club. While I consented to eat there despite the fact that the word ?knothole? makes me squirmy, I drew the line at ordering a ?knothole dog.? * I actually used the word ?exactamundo? the other day. I now g...
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I Wonder If It?s A Pyramid Scheme?
2008-08-07 03:52:00
Pardon the repost, but I had nothing better to say today. Seriously, rhyming say and today was as good as it got. So, I offer you this...Hot on the heels of me offering to write posts for money (which was a joke, really. Honestly. Come on you can believe me) comes today?s pointless holiday that I am choosing to celebrate. Today is called Laugh and Get Rich Day. Now of course I can?t find anything about it on the Wondernet, so I am left to ASSume what we are supposed to do in honor of today.As you might expect, I laugh?a lot. As you also might expect, I GET laughed AT a lot, too. The only problem is that all of my laughing has most certainly NOT made me rich and I?m pretty sure it hasn?t helped my coworkers (the biggest offenders of the laughing at me category) either. If they had gotten money for laughing at me, most if not all of them would no longer need to work and would be what people refer to as ?financially independent.? (When you read that last phrase, feel free ...
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Keep It Simple Stupid
2008-08-06 03:06:00
Ok, I am not calling anyone that happens to read this stupid. It?s just a saying and since this post is about simplification, it was the only ?simple? related saying I could think of. Actually, in my house ?stupid? is a 4-letter word. Part of this has to do with the fact that Lucy and Ethel haven?t quite mastered spelling yet, but the other part is because they consider it a bad word, just like dumb, butt and celery. Well, it was me who taught them about the celery deal, but they aren?t arguing.This week is Simplify Your Life Week. I don?t believe there is a colored ribbon to be worn that is associated with this week, but I?m still researching it. When you think about it though, the holiday is not made any simpler when we have to add a ribbon, so I probably won?t find one for it. I?m all into simplifying things because doing so eliminates useless steps and makes things easier. I realize that sounds a lot like being lazy, but. Sorry, I really couldn?t figure out how to end t...
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Let?s Sleep On It (That?s What She Said)
2008-08-05 09:07:00
As I was exercising my right to surf the wondernet last week (not at work of course, ahem, cough, etc., etc.), I came across a story whose title included the words ?nap? and ?work.? My neck has been in a brace since. That?s a whiplash joke, though I think having to explain it automatically precludes it from falling into the category of ?joke.? I read the article and even took notes, which I have since misplaced, most likely because I am in need of a nap.The story talked about how workers in other companies and countries are given nap time and how employers are realizing that a nap does the productivity good. I am paraphrasing, but the bottom line was that naps in the workplace are becoming vogue, or in vogue or maybe vogueicious, but definitely some derivative of the word vogue. Or for those of you keeping score at home, fashionable. Since reading about the in-vogueness of napping in the workplace, I have been dropping subtle hints at my office in the hopes of getting naptime a...
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Q & A Monday
2008-08-04 04:10:00
Wow, did that last week fly by. I?d chalk that up to the prescribed painkillers I was on all week, but I asked around and was told that yes, the week did seem to go by quickly, as did the month of July. Why it seems like just yesterday I was in the pool, grilling and watching fireworks. Wait, actually, I was. Ok, let?s try it this way: it seems like just yesterday that we were celebrating the birth of our nation and it?s already been a month. I guess as we get older we end up paying for all those times as kids that we sat around saying that something was taking forever and that we were bored. Granted, I still lament that daily from my cubicle, but that?s beside the point because I have the maturation of a fine piece of sharp cheddar: 1 ½ years. And speaking of cubicles and segues, I have been playing with the idea of putting on a play in my office. I was thinking we?d do ?The Crucible From A Cubicle.? It?s just in the planning stages and I?ll probably be assigned to some project or ...
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Weekly News Roundup
2008-08-01 03:38:00
Here are a bunch of posts I started based on things I read throughout the week that never got finished. The beauty is that if I group them together, it?s long enough (that?s what she said) to make a post. And if I give it a name like ?weekly news roundup,? it almost sounds important?I Testify (In Shorts That Are Deemed To Be Too Short For The Social Good)!I saw a news headline on Friday that caught my attention. Apparently humanity?s friend Richard Simmons testified before congress defending Physical Ed in schools. I still cannot verify whether or not he was in his trademarked workout outfit. Although if he was, you can let your school children know right now that Congress has officially decided to pull PE out of schools across the nation. I wonder how congress got him to sit still at the testification table. Did he provide his answers by yelling and singing and clapping? I bet the shock of seeing Richard Simmons in a suit would be comparable to seeing Pamela Anderson wearin...
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Going To The Suggestion Box
2008-07-31 03:45:00
At the end of last week, one of the newer readers here gave me a great suggestion. E told me to get topic suggestions and file them away for those days where my mind is infertile as an 88-year-old woman or barren desert or better yet, an 88-year-old woman in a barren desert, take your pick. Not only was E?s suggestion a good idea, she actually got the topic suggestion box going with a few submissions of her own. I will attempt to tackle E?s suggested topics today, though after I?m done, my suggestion box will be empty again. I guess it?s feast or famine. I also forgot to take my camera to work again today today and alas cannot post my Wednesday Window of the Week pic. I used ?alas? to make it seem more dramatic. It?s not normally part of my daily vocab.E?s first topic suggestion concerns mullets and perms, but not just any mullets and perms, mullets and perms circa 1990. Since I don?t know what circa means, I?m not sure how to approach this. I?m kidding. Of course I know that circa ...
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Who Knew A Machine Could Bring Us All Together?
2008-07-30 03:56:00
Technology is amazing. I guess when you figure out that we were able to land a man on the moon (if you choose to believe in that sort of stuff); the newest machine in our office should come as no surprise. It will revolutionize the way we go about our day. Heck it might even make us better workers. Strike that. It might even make me a better worker. In fact, I?m not sure why this thing wasn?t installed earlier. I suppose I should just be grateful that my employer has finally seen fit to put one in our office.In fact, not even a 5.8 magnitude earthquake literally less than 5 miles from our coffice (sorry, I honestly actually wrote coffice there, you?ll see why in a minute. Obviously I meant ?office? though) could curb our excitement and appreciation for our newest office toy tool. What? I have yet to share what it is with you (well except for the big photo there on the left of course)? Well, let me do that now. It?s the Saeco Rubino 200 coffee vending machine. Sure my of...
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