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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Tradition

I call my mother once a week, sometimes more if something big and family-related is going down. I’ve been told this is unusual behavior for people my age who don’t have children – apparently they stay in closer contact with their parents. It’s not that I don’t enjoy talking to my mother, but an hour [...]

Web Confusion

Today I received what is probably the strangest phone call ever to work its way through Sprint’s pathetic cellular network. The caller was an anonymous European-sounding man, and he was upset over threats that I had apparently made against his website. I had no idea what in the world he was talking about, but I [...]

Political Rant # 345271

Discussing politics at work should be an offense punished by catapult. I’ve been kept on for another week or two at this position, but they have no office space for me, so they put me in the kitchen. If it sounds lame, it was (although today the big boss isn’t in, so I get to [...]

Wedding

K. and I are getting married on September 4th, and this is just to let friends and family know that they can follow along on our wedding page (http://wedding.4d2.dk). Wish us luck on our deathmarch adventure!

Chivalry is dead – and who cares?

I’m waiting in line to buy some grapes, chocolate covered pretzels and pomegranate green tea at the local Wawa during lunch hour. I wanted bananas but they were all out. I have, back in the office, thawing frozen strawberries and 3 slices of mushroom pizza. None of this is important to my discussion but it [...]

Break-ups

Today I’m thinking about break-ups, after receiving the news of the break-up of my bestest friend in the whole world (minus WoDM, of course) and her boyfriend of over a year. My thoughts are all over the place, which is par for the course, I suppose. My first thoughts are remembering what it felt like [...]

Oh, those Internetz

People of the world – those with access to a computer which has internet access and enough skill to navigate to news pages and splay your insightful comments on the problems of today below a BOOK REVIEW – would it kill you to cite some sort of evidence for your opinion? Personal experience is evidence. [...]