My internet access needs to be filed under "extremely retarded" over these last.. O, four years, but mayhaps I am at a decent crossroads at last. For me it seems advantages over the strum and drag of life happen in glacial ways. This is accounting to my personality, to be sure, but also to just how the cards happen to fall on the blackjack table ( Read more... )

Regard this as largely fatty, because I don't have many stats at hand, but ( Read more... )

HAPPY NEW YEAR, FIRST OF all- may we who had a good year remember it fondly, and for those who didn't, time to lick wounds ( Read more... )

In short: job is good. Got achingly beautiful square foot of slate tile that zings, it's so pretty. Mustard yellow, ochres, fiery rust, auburn, riveting cobalt blue sprinkles- all against a background of leaden sea grey. No framing required ( Read more... )

MEANWHILE, LIFE GOES ON.. AND I'm impressed enough with the news of today to comment. So there was this big climate conference where many many representatives from many many nations got together and boomed rhetoric about the state of the weather on this globe ( Read more... )

AT WORK, I'VE GOTTEN TO know some peoples on the team, and I have to acknowledge that our group- maybe some 50 strong- who, as we travel 'round, dissend like locusts on a different store in the area every day, is a very fun and diverse group. We all seem to understand that we're in a very fun, loose boat sailing in the corporate seas of cheese, ( Read more... )

MY COMPUTER HAS A VIRUS, most likely, or something that caused it to run as slow as treacle, and then not boot properly. Fucking fun ( Read more... )

a prologue to an old conversation in a mystical land called Iowa:

THE ELEMENTS:

ACTION- the first part of life. We squirm, function &cet. as babies. Our bodies move first most involuntarily, then voluntarily. Our squirming, breathing, secretions start to meld with an awareness that we can, on some level control these functions ( Read more... )

I can't pass this up; I couldn't help but notice a book at the library the other week entitled '100 Bullshit Jobs ...And How To Get Them' by Stanley Bing. After poking in it for a bit, I was pleasantly surprised by the droll yet intense sarcasm of the tome. Jobs examined include closet organizer, media trainer, food critic, corporate yes-man, ( Read more... )

"This is the worst aisle in the store" said Bob, a very cool (in my opine) ex-correctional officer/ Marine who was showing me the ropes on the job I have inherited at work- I was given my assignment this morning. What he meant by "worst" was that it was grueling ( Read more... )