Archive for February, 2010
Next Entries »The Day The Super Bowl Ads Hated Women
Sunday, February 7th, 2010Three, count ‘em, three companies made a point of reminding all the dudes watching how awful it is to be forced, FORCED, to spend time with women. Let’s compare, shall we? 1. Dodge Charger: For When You Hate Your Wife, and the Life You Have Because of Her! A subtle reminder of some Very Important [...]
The Day We Got a Break.
Saturday, February 6th, 2010When I woke up this morning there was none of the usual drone from Nick Jr. in the living room. Only what sounded like a semi-serious conversation from behind Henry’s bedroom door between him and the girl who lives upstairs. She’s two years older than him; her brother is two years older than her, and [...]
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Friday, February 5th, 2010So a friend at work let me know about Momentile some time ago, back when it was in its beta phase, and I really liked it immediately. Rather than do lots of extensive typing and thinking, I will now lazily blockquote their About page. A momentile consists of a single image, defined only by the [...]
The Day I Got the Hell on With It Already
Friday, February 5th, 2010I’ve been running my head into this one piece of work for the past three days now. I should’ve been done with it yesterday afternoon. It’s not particularly difficult. It’s not something I have to search my soul or confront uncomfortable truths to finish up. It’s just a couple of damn web pages’ worth of [...]
The Day We All Got Snakes.
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Upon arriving home from preschool and shopping just now, Henry informed me of the following: We all have pet snakes now. His pet snake is named John. Erin’s is named Albert. (Albert is a girl.) Mine is named 37. He is 11 feet long. John eats leaves and beef. Today is The Day We All [...]
The Day We Ran Out of Nutella
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Yeah, not a lot going on for Wednesday. But seriously, my options were this or like, “The Day I Went to Evanston For Another Meeting,” and I hope you can guess which incident I’d rather tell you about. Well, all right, fine, there’s not really much more to tell. Except that Trader Joe’s has these [...]
The Day I Had to Buy a New Car Battery
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010We were dropping Henry at school, and Erin was gonna drop me at the coffee shop afterward. I work there frequently, exercising my limitless freedom as a telecommuter by purchasing sandwiches I can’t afford. We stopped in the bus zone, put the blinkers on, and stood around in the snow as Henry made little snowballs [...]
The Day I Had This Idea.
Monday, February 1st, 2010I don’t know if it’s a function of age, or crushing-but-desperately-necessary routine, or prescription medication, or what, exactly, but what’s become so alarming to me about my life over the past couple of years is how it’s all been running together in one big mass of days I don’t remember, or weeks or months I [...]
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