Remember this postal worker? I had the pleasure of transacting business with her today. And when I say pleasure, I do not mean it. I walked up to the counter, said hello (pleasantly), and told her I wanted to send my parcel priority mail with $25 insurance. Instead of asking me if I had anything [...]
I’m doing some consulting work that is both lucrative and soul-killing. But as I am more or less unemployed, beggars cannot be choosers. They can, however, be whiners, so I am going to take full advantage of that right now. This task has consisted of taking jumbled information provided by a variety of sources and [...]
…’cause I was too nervous to really get down. For the record, I have totally not been watching this over and over again all morning since Simon sent it to me. No, really. I haven’t. *cough*
Sometimes I can stand a chatty cab drive and sometimes I cannot. I was somewhere in between today but decided to indulge this particular cab driver because he was so weirdly entertaining. He started talking to me about politics almost as soon as my ass hit the seat. This is completely understandable seeing as how [...]
And I say things like: “Sure. If they had sights and … self-determination.” Asteroids, I mean. Apparently, there are “wayward” asteroids out there that “have us in their sights” among other potential disasters. Sigh.
I was talking to my friend Paul recently about how much I love the show Top Gear, which I have only recently started watching. Paul, it turns out, hates that show, even though he is a bit of a gear head, because they did the inevitable Let’s Go Taunt White Southerners bit on their show. [...]