Well, hello.
Monday, April 19th, 2010Welcome, you. You must be tired. I certainly am.
Look, here’s the thing: Keeping this site was fun for a long time, and I think some good stuff has definitely come out of it. We’ve made friends with some terrific people, and that’s by far the best by-product.
But clearly it’s just not doing anything for me [...]
The Day Henry Had a Million-Dollar Idea.
Monday, March 1st, 2010Henry: Okay, how about this! It’s a chocolate bar, and when you rub it on your skin, it makes you stay alive forever!
Me: (silently nodding in agreement, secure in the knowledge we do not have to worry about saving for retirement.)
I mean, seriously, think about this.
Who doesn’t love chocolate?
Who doesn’t love immortality?
To those who discount [...]
The Day Henry Took the Gold.
Sunday, February 28th, 2010Henry: “Look! I got a gold medal, a bouquet of flowers, and even a magazine! All from speed skating!”
Me: “You’re really good.”
Henry: “I trained.”
The Day I Saw an Ad That Was Awesome.
Friday, February 19th, 2010“I’m on a horse.”
The Day I Read a Really Terrific Story.
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Apparently it’s been making the round on the Internets of late, but I read this story about Roger Ebert for the first time today and it moved me in a way I have trouble fully expressing. I love reading about him and his wife, and how they are when they’re together after decades of marriage. [...]
The Day I Told Myself to Stop Whining, Again.
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010I’ve been in a career funk as of late. Specifically I’ve been funking about how I can’t seem to secure full-time, relatively stable employment anywhere, and how I’m generally just barely making ends meet, and how I get to interact with basically no one outside my own house, and how my motivation seems to have [...]
The Day I Accounted for the Past Three Days.
Monday, February 15th, 2010Okay, so let’s see here.
Friday
Friday was The Day I Started Reading an Actual Book Instead of Playing Goddamn Video Games All the Fucking Time. Perhaps it’s best I didn’t use that as a post title, as it’s kind of long and unwieldy.
Yeah, so I’ve been in this infinite loop lately where I work all day, [...]
The Day I Fell Off the NaBloPoMo Wagon.
Friday, February 12th, 2010Well, shit.
The Day I Got Some Bad News.
Thursday, February 11th, 2010I got an e-mail from a former professor I’m fond of today with the subject line, “Memories of Jim,” Jim being another former professor I always liked. I was horrified; I assumed Jim had died suddenly.
Well, not suddenly, it turns out, but soon enough, unfortunately. Jim was, I guess, planning to retire soon anyway, and [...]
The Day I May Have Lost Everything On My Computer
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010I don’t want to talk about it in too much detail, because I’m too upset right now. And it might still turn out okay. But yes, see the title. It started out as an attempt at diagnosing a software problem with an only partly necessary application. And then it snowballed. And snowballed. And snowballed.
And suddenly [...]