It was pretty obvious last fall (to the tune of $2K of car repair) that my '03 Jeep was on the downward spiral.  It has been a good car and if its gas mileage has been crap (and boy is it crap), it is happy to go vroom when I desire to drive way too fast (like I do).  So I started wandering around dealerships checking things out saying over and ( Read more... )

On the plus side, we didn't loose power and it looks like they have plowed to my street ( Read more... )

I was teasing the school teachers at my gym last night that they would have a snow day while the rest of us poor slobs headed off to work.  (The president of the company has a big-ass pickup truck.  If he can get to work, we all have to get to work.)  I lamented the loss of snow-day mystique.  But lo, I have found my inner 8 year old.  Not because ( Read more... )

someone please explain to me how the work instructions i am writing have grown to 90 pages.
i grant you they are mostly pictures but still...90 pages?
this thing aint that comlicated.
honest.

We have data collection with algorithms and cookies that allow advertisers the shoes I looked at briefly last week to follow me around the internet.  We have customer records that let you (and the company) to look back at all the things youve ordered in the last however long and credit card cross indexing databases so looking at those shoes leads ( Read more... )

B: I ran three miles with an untied shoe because I was too lazy to tie it.
me: I think we need to work on your definition of the word "lazy" because it doesn't usually cover running three miles.

Dear Pot,
Kettle called.
Would like to discuss spring palette from fashion week.
Exasperatedly,
Your Colleague.

Purchasing is giving me the stink eye because I just submitted a requisition for black nail polish.
I then had to convince them that I am not pulling a practical joke.  Yes, we really do use nail polish in assembly of lasers.  Black, matte preferable, cheap drugstore brand is fine we don't need high cost laquer. 
Seriously.
Science, weird but

8:30 am and already life has taken a turn for the surreal ( Read more... )

I'm not the only one who has noticed gymnasts are short