There is someone I used to know who has looked me up on a social network site and wants to add me as a friend. While we were friendly, I wouldn’t characterize us as having been friends; it would be more fair to call us “amicable associates”. The real rub, Zombie Ann, is that I […]
I just stepped out of the house to warm up the car before taking my son to get a shot, and it is TEN FUCKING DEGREES out here (-12 C for people using the more sensible metric system). I live at a fairly low latitude and altitude, so this is pretty insane. I miss California […]
This is a meandering tale, so please bear with me. By the end I will have decided on a new direction to take in my life. I told a story back in TANcast 012 about how a guy I used to work with had apparently been referring to me as “Mmmmmm, Bear!” to a mutual […]
… on Thursday night, my bank seems to have failed and been bought by another. Exciting times! Since JPMorgan Chase doesn’t appear to have any branches or ATMs in the Metro Atlanta area, the only benefit I can see is that WaMu sucked hind teat when it came to systems integration. We opened a bank […]
Following on what Tim just said, several years ago Tim, Noah, OG Steph, and I all took a trip that I lovingly call “24 Hours of Disney”. We started with a power nap, then got up around 3 AM, loaded into my car, and drove from San Jose to Anaheim. The rest of them continued […]
I got two calls today from 877-565-8456 almost exactly 15 minutes apart. I missed the first and the caller did not leave a message, but when a second call came through so soon I thought it might be important and answered. It turned out this was a goddamn automated dialer system calling me to tell […]
I hate being kept waiting at a doctor’s office. First you wait in the waiting room, then they call you back and weight something (perhaps your left ball) and either ask you to wait in a second, hidden waiting room or else direct you to an examination room where you will invariably wait some more. […]
I just checked, and it turns out I have a mass of 413 lbs. Thankfully I also happen to be shaped like a perfect cube with a side length of about 12 ft 5 in, so I displace roughly 1920 cubic feet of air. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine […]
STOP THE PRESS: I’m thinking about buying an i(ntel)Mac instead of building my own desktop PC from scratch. I also think I may start wearing black turtlenecks with jeans, but it could just be the time of year…
Things I have learned in my short time in the South: There is no CJ’s, only Hardee’s. Jack in the Box is a distant dream. By that I mean it is 200 miles away. Don’t even ask about In ‘N Out Burger. Here it’s Edy’s, not Dreyer’s. Apparently the other guy who started the company […]