Some key factors for identifying when people are trying to use your job search to scam you ( Read more... )

Finally got my tomato and strawberry plants. I inevitably faced the conundrum of coming up with names for them. It's a long-standing tradition for me to name my plants, and I've generally used the muses as the theme. My umbrella tree plant, the first plant named under this theme, is Mnemosyne, the mother of the muses. My Mnemosyne has been with ( Read more... )

People are depressed about the recession and stuff, but things are looking up for me--even though I just had to take a week of unpaid leave to save the company some money ( Read more... )

I chose a bad day to try taking a peek at the kind of stuff the people who are considered the face of conservatism turn out. I have to agree that people like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly really are just spouting some pretty ugly, incendiary things ( Read more... )

I managed to approach the new Star Trek film with a mostly open mind, and as a result I did manage to enjoy it. It'll never take the place of beloved films such as "Wrath of Khan," "The Voyage Home," or "The Undiscovered Country." But it kept me entertained ( Read more... )

I'm still grumpy because someone rear-ended me while I was stopped at a red light a few days ago ( Read more... )

Sarah Palin is going to publish a memoir, and it happens to be coming out in 2010, they year she's up for reelection in Alaska. When I read about this, I was at work and I tried terribly hard to keep from laughing because even though we're fairly casual at work it just didn't seem right ( Read more... )

Apparently we practice censorship and push porn at teenagers.I think I can see why so many of the older people I work with are jaded ( Read more... )

My introductory period at work ends on the ninth, but my editor, Bill, decided to go ahead and do my evaluation today.

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Meijer is going to start providing nutritional ratings on the food the sell. They aren't adding to the nutritional information on the packaging--it's something they're going to add to the shelves and so on. Basically, if you're looking for the rating, you should be able to find it, and if you don't care then you probably won't notice it anyway ( Read more... )