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Not A Drop To Drink

From our continuing series of What’s Up With That: Things That Don’t Work Right (see the most infamous article in this series here), we have the Mystery of the Intermittent Drinking Fountain. In the hall outside the bathrooms near my cubicle at work, there’s a pair of drinking fountains in the usual configuration: A [...]

But, Tons

For years I suffered in silence, thinking there was something dreadfully wrong with me. Only my family and a few close friends knew of my affliction, but they all laughed it off and were not very supportive. In fact, I was ridiculed by those closest to me and told to just deal with [...]

Blizzard ‘06 Redux

As everyone probably knows, we in Colorado got hit with another big snowstorm less than a week after the end of the worst blizzard we’ve had in some number of years. Luckily, it wasn’t as bad as forecast and the second wave of this storm failed to materialize. That was a very good [...]

Blizzard ‘06

‘Bout time we got some decent snowfall around here. Last winter there were no blizzards at all. It’s still coming down but should taper off soon. The prospect of digging out does not have me excited. And on top of everything, I have to Work From Home today. No snow [...]

Where DID My Summer Go?

Things that made me smile in the last week or so:
Horatio Sanz has been fired from Saturday Night Live. Hooray! No more “I’m Carol!”, surely the worst recurring SNL character ever. Oh good, Dane Cook is hosting the season opener. Yawn.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. I’ve never watched Sports [...]

I’ll Take What I Can Get

So do you know what the best thing to happen to me last weekend was? The battery in my car died.
Luckily it died in the parking lot of a Sears Auto Center, and I was back up and running with a new battery in about a half hour. I had known it was [...]

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