Compensating with links and random nonsense
This isn’t exactly news, but it bears mentioning again that sometimes Life just plain sucks the dirty tailpipe of a ‘67 Buick. Admittedly, the things that have been making my life worthy of Guest of...
View ArticleAn actual text message I actually texted to my actual wife
The Puddinette and I have a pseudo-regular habit of exchanging a few mid-morning text messages after finally settling into the day’s routine. We generally recap the events of the kind of daily...
View ArticleWeekend Debate: Suburban Agriculture
Last night, I harvested what I could from my backyard, um, garden. In the springtime, I’d had grandiose visions of making salsa from peppers and tomatoes grown in my very own dirt, by my very own...
View Article(An inexcusably tardy) Weekend Debate: Pumpkin Time
Yeah, I know, it’s Monday. Which, you know, barring the odd three-day weekend isn’t so much the weekend anymore. So what the Hell’s the point of having something called a “weekend debate” if I can’t...
View ArticleShiny Toys and IT Monkeys
Wondering what’s up with that sweet-looking phone there? Perhaps also wondering why I didn’t utter so much as a peep yesterday? Answers to those questions – and much, much, more! – will be finally...
View ArticleVote Puddin for POTUS
Image via Wikimedia Commons Like most Americans, I reckon, I watched some of the Vice Presidential debate last night on, um, I don’t know, that one channel with all the talking heads that don’t manage...
View ArticleHydrocortisone looks like toothpaste (and 4 other things I learned this weekend)
It’s widely said that you learn something new every day. When I was younger, I had hopes that as I became an Actual Grown-Up ™, I might edge myself every closer to Knowing All The Things, thus making...
View ArticleWhispers of my RPG-playing youth found on YouTube
I should have been in bed. I was tired and it was late, and by late I mean it was 12+1 o’clock in the ante meridian. For that record, that’s how I’ve decided to address hours beyond midnight these...
View ArticlePosts from a plane: A day trip to New York City
That’s pretty much what I saw of NYC today I suppose the title of this post is, among other things, terribly misleading. While I did go on quite the day trip on Thursday, calling it a trip to New York...
View ArticleThis is (actually) 40
My four year-old son, The Attitude, apparently just started a new stage in life. For the last few nights, he’s been slow to get to sleep and has been waking up tearfully in the middle of the night....
View ArticleMaking filler posts…like A BOSS!
Image via Wikipedia Commons As you may or may not know (depending on how many f#&@s you happen to give about what I do with myself…which I realize is likely closer to 0 than any other number), I’m...
View ArticleThe weekend approaches
So it’s Friday around these parts, which means that by the time you’ve read this, the weekend will either already be in full swing or barely a mere step away from your greedy, outstretched paws....
View ArticleThis space for rent
Okay, so not really. I mean, I totally would probably rent it out if there was a good enough reason, because, hey, who’s above selling out a little bit? Not me. I’d have to start getting a couple of...
View ArticleThe Nine Year-Old Girl With a Stuffed Giraffe’s Head
As if usually the case, I had every intention of Doing All The Things this weekend. I was going to get all kinds of stuff done and maybe even mark a few things off the List of Husbandly Sloth. However,...
View ArticleUniversal Truth Of Adulthood, Number 87: MegaUltraUber Glue
At some point in the course of your adult life, you will—possibly against your will—be required to use SuperAmazeballsHolyCrumbsInsanity Glue to put one thing back into (hopefully) semi-permanent...
View ArticleFourteen Years Later
She was folding my shirts all wrong. Instead of folding both sleeves back and then folding the shirt in half at the torso, she halved the thing longways like folding a paper airplane. And it wasn’t...
View ArticleThis is (actually) 40
My four year-old son, The Attitude, apparently just started a new stage in life. For the last few nights, he’s been slow to get to sleep and has been waking up tearfully in the middle of the night....
View ArticleMaking filler posts…like A BOSS!
Image via Wikipedia Commons As you may or may not know (depending on how many f#&@s you happen to give about what I do with myself…which I realize is likely closer to 0 than any other number), I’m...
View ArticleThe weekend approaches
So it’s Friday around these parts, which means that by the time you’ve read this, the weekend will either already be in full swing or barely a mere step away from your greedy, outstretched paws....
View ArticleThis space for rent
Okay, so not really. I mean, I totally would probably rent it out if there was a good enough reason, because, hey, who’s above selling out a little bit? Not me. I’d have to start getting a couple of...
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