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Category Archives: Whining

Getting Old

I went out with a friend from my childhood this weekend. We manage to go out probably a couple times a year now, since I live an hour or so away and with work and family and relationships, it seems harder to find time. But after a lunch at micro-brewery type place, we ended up [...]

Using Phrases You Don’t Understand

I read a lot of writing on the internet, and so many people screw up the simplest phrases because they’ve only heard them and never read them and don’t think about it.  Today it was “intensive purposes” which is supposed to read, “intents and purposes.” Let me ask you something, does for all “intensive purposes” [...]

Admin Pet Peeve #1

I’m a secretary, despite my official title as administrative support or assistant or whatever it is, here.  I don’t have a hard job – I have a boring, often tedious job.  I have to remember bureaucratic processes, and stay organized.  I’m not that great at this job, but my heart isn’t really into it, either.  [...]

Inclement Weather

Now that I’ve succesfully calmed down from my four-hour drive home from work yesterday, I think I can reasonably discuss it. I work in Annapolis, MD.  It’s a pretty city, but it’s right on the bay and surrounded by all sorts of rivers and creeks – which means, of course, loads of bridges. It flurried, [...]

My Word Coach

WoDM signed us up for a free two-week trial of gamefly.  The first game we received was Trauma Center 2 for the wii, I haven’t played this game yet.  Yesterday, we got My Word Coach. We sat down to play, because it beats watching tv.  I have a lot of issues with this game. They [...]

Holidaze

I don’t make a secret of not really enjoying the holidays.  I start thinking about Christmas in September, largely because by the time December rolls around, the only thing I want to think about is baking, drinking coffee, and hanging out with friends and family.  The reality is, December rolls around and I’m still worrying [...]

Comments Spam

So some of you astute readers (ha ha! All three of you) may have noticed that this blog has been literally inundated with spam comments of late. For the last week or so, I’ve had to manually delete hundreds of crap comments advertising party poker and the like. The filters have caught most of them [...]

Why Libertarians are Wrong

On a more or less related note to my previous post about why the ACLU sucks, I’d like to explain why the Libertarian party has got it wrong (in my opinion). First off: I am a registered Libertarian, and until recently was a dues-paying member of both the national and Maryland state Libertarian party. I [...]