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Lately I need to be more careful about what I keep on my iPod because it use it at work on occasion and if there’s a song that rocks (Who am I kidding? They all do.) I have to skip … Continue reading →

Almost a year ago I wrote about a conversation I had with my brother while he was in Navy boot camp. It was a very emotionally charged conversation, partially because I missed him and hadn’t spoken to him since he … Continue reading →

24 is gone – I can’t believe that Fox got rid of Jack Bauer and Chloe O’Brian and that ticking clock between commercial breaks. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised – the show did last eight seasons, and after all…how … Continue reading →

Because of the ultra-secret, high tech and super dangerous nature of my job I require a key card to get into the building before regular business hours (I usually show up about fifteen minutes before we officially open). This morning … Continue reading →

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about the kind of informal “writing group” that I had kind of cobbled together not long after I moved my blog from Myspace to Blogger. There was a pretty solid group … Continue reading →

It’s been well over 15 years by now but we’re still pointing fingers at one another. Check your history books and you won’t find this scandal, yet between my brother Spenser, cousin Brian, and I there was no event more … Continue reading →

By the summer of 2003 I was a teenage badass, in my own mind, at least. At sixteen I had gone full-time surly, taking up drinking…Bud Light, baby. By all rights I should have been happier. Our family started running … Continue reading →

The bar has been lowered, substantially. I got excited when I woke up this morning because I realized it was Friday and I could wear jeans to work. Then, at work, the broken mouse on my computer was replaced with … Continue reading →

I was warned this morning not to step under a ladder as it was bad luck. I stepped aside to be safer, I guess. The guy on the ladder was pretty beefy and had he fallen as I passed beneath … Continue reading →

I get up to the customer service desk at heaven’s Albany branch office, located behind a dollar store in a non-descript strip mall, between a Payless Shoe store and a Super Cuts salon. Yeah, I know it’s not what you’d … Continue reading →