Tried to buy a fixer-upper house at auction today. Fascinating process. The auctioneer would pretend to see people bidding in the crowd to jack the price up. Sometimes conducting whole imaginary price wars where no actual people ever bid. I saw one real guy increase his 'winning' big by $60,000 bidding against another bidder behind him that ( Read more... )

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My sleep apnea surgery went ahead a month ago after being delayed from the end of the year because of bronchitis ( Read more... )

I have big lips. I have big feet too, but I don't really notice those unless I'm tripping over things or trying to buy shoes that they don't have in my size ( Read more... )

It's been years since I last went to Spengers. In fact I think the last time was when I first met Janet, Brian and Jason, with a side of Windy. Wasn't that the night when we occupied a Nob Hill hotel ( Read more... )

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Now that's not something that you see every day. Oh to be a fly on the wall at 10 Downing Street today...

It's amazing how much interpersonal relations are governed by expectations. How rifts can develop between people because of a failure to meet expectations even, or especially, when the 'expected person' is oblivious ( Read more... )

Procrastination is the only thing that I'm good at any more. Flitting from one distraction to the next, always avoiding the rolling catastrophe that's been chasing me at work for the last couple of months. More deadlines, another all nighter and precious little to show for it all ( Read more... )