Crap.
February 27, 2004
Ah crud! I've been burgled! - - - So yes, I got burglarized yesterday while I was at work. It’s a pretty easy guess on who did it: punk kids. It’s always punk kids. It was someone who spends a lot of time ‘round my house and who knows they’re likely to be able to get in through the garage,...
Ah crud! I've been burgled! - - - So yes, I got burglarized yesterday while I was at work. It’s a pretty easy guess on who did it: punk kids. It’s always punk kids. It was someone who spends a lot of time ‘round my house and who knows they’re likely to be able to get in through the garage,...
Fake Stonehenge
February 26, 2004
My toiletries have slowly spread themselves all over the house. The toothbrush remains downstairs so you can use it right after the shower, but the deodorant has migrated to the bedroom, because honestly, you don’t want to put on deodorant immediately after the shower when that last invisible film of water is still evaporating off your body, no, you want...
My toiletries have slowly spread themselves all over the house. The toothbrush remains downstairs so you can use it right after the shower, but the deodorant has migrated to the bedroom, because honestly, you don’t want to put on deodorant immediately after the shower when that last invisible film of water is still evaporating off your body, no, you want...
Yet More Navel Gazing
February 25, 2004
My problem, I think – at least, my major problem among many; the blocking problem that stands before my ability to see all my other problems – is that I just do not want to think right now. I want to sink into a hot bath or warm bed and lie there half-asleep for the foreseeable future. I am the...
My problem, I think – at least, my major problem among many; the blocking problem that stands before my ability to see all my other problems – is that I just do not want to think right now. I want to sink into a hot bath or warm bed and lie there half-asleep for the foreseeable future. I am the...
Rambling
February 13, 2004
I am much too lazy to type this morning. So instead I will just type a lot of random boring stuff that I see on the bus ride to work. “Lai’s Nails and Feet” The homonym makes it sound like it’s a sex shop for fetishists. There’s a guy at the back of the bus, a handsome guy with a...
I am much too lazy to type this morning. So instead I will just type a lot of random boring stuff that I see on the bus ride to work. “Lai’s Nails and Feet” The homonym makes it sound like it’s a sex shop for fetishists. There’s a guy at the back of the bus, a handsome guy with a...
Dentistry
February 12, 2004
I just had the longest dental appointment in the history of dentistry. They could have grafted on a whole mouth into my face in the time this took. Yeesh. It was supposed to just be a quick filling on one tooth and a replacement filling on another. But hoo boy, it didn’t work out that way. They ended up doing...
I just had the longest dental appointment in the history of dentistry. They could have grafted on a whole mouth into my face in the time this took. Yeesh. It was supposed to just be a quick filling on one tooth and a replacement filling on another. But hoo boy, it didn’t work out that way. They ended up doing...
I Miss My Book Club
February 12, 2004
I finished Dracula last night and it was a really good book. Neither gothy nor pandering to those who are enamored of the supernatural. In fact, one of the more clever things that it does is wrap itself in Christianity and work the vampire thread into that existing cloth. It was also very true to the Simpsons Halloween Special. The...
I finished Dracula last night and it was a really good book. Neither gothy nor pandering to those who are enamored of the supernatural. In fact, one of the more clever things that it does is wrap itself in Christianity and work the vampire thread into that existing cloth. It was also very true to the Simpsons Halloween Special. The...
Ted
February 11, 2004
Our friend Ted passed away yesterday. I wish I had traded more than four sentences with him in the last month. He was an amazing guy. He had been a member of the men’s bridge club for probably the last forty-plus years. He’d acted in the Gilbert and Sullivan Society for at least thirty years. He was a positive, upbeat,...
Our friend Ted passed away yesterday. I wish I had traded more than four sentences with him in the last month. He was an amazing guy. He had been a member of the men’s bridge club for probably the last forty-plus years. He’d acted in the Gilbert and Sullivan Society for at least thirty years. He was a positive, upbeat,...
Money Games
February 10, 2004
What is the minimum amount of money that would change your life? This is one of my favorite games to play. I know in large measure this is a prime example of how shallow and lacking in a higher calling I am. But the game is so addictive. I even play it for other people I know – guessing what...
What is the minimum amount of money that would change your life? This is one of my favorite games to play. I know in large measure this is a prime example of how shallow and lacking in a higher calling I am. But the game is so addictive. I even play it for other people I know – guessing what...
Democracy Equals Chaos
February 09, 2004
So, I live in Washington, the Throw Away Your Vote state. Where did Nader make his stand in 2000? Right here, baby. California is like your rich old uncle: the whole family knows he’s crazy, what with his decrees that people henceforth may only smoke on the moon, and that property taxes should be rolled back until the government is...
So, I live in Washington, the Throw Away Your Vote state. Where did Nader make his stand in 2000? Right here, baby. California is like your rich old uncle: the whole family knows he’s crazy, what with his decrees that people henceforth may only smoke on the moon, and that property taxes should be rolled back until the government is...
Givers and Takers...
February 04, 2004
...more self-evident drivel proudly overanalyzed into triteness: Andrea used to have a theory that relationships were populated by givers and takers. I’m not going to repeat this as well as she could, but the principle was that some people get their happiness the normal way – by getting or doing things that make them happy – and other people got...
...more self-evident drivel proudly overanalyzed into triteness: Andrea used to have a theory that relationships were populated by givers and takers. I’m not going to repeat this as well as she could, but the principle was that some people get their happiness the normal way – by getting or doing things that make them happy – and other people got...
Speaking of Underresponsible
February 02, 2004
I am doing nothing to clothe the McJannet name in glory: Saturday, I get my mail and carry it inside. I separate the bills from the junk mail and credit card offers. I open my City of Seattle water bill, okay, fine. Opened the City of Seattle electricity bill. There was nothing to do but curse when I saw that...
I am doing nothing to clothe the McJannet name in glory: Saturday, I get my mail and carry it inside. I separate the bills from the junk mail and credit card offers. I open my City of Seattle water bill, okay, fine. Opened the City of Seattle electricity bill. There was nothing to do but curse when I saw that...