If only it weren't so damn cold, I'd have little to complain about right now. I never expected the Steelers to win the Super Bowl. I never expected to be there to see it when it happened. I never expected them to win two. I really never expected to go to both Super Bowls. I still can't believe it. Only 17 teams have won a Super Bowl. How ( Read more... )

And so begins the final day of my youth ( Read more... )

So maybe I'm not lying when I say that I don't just choose where I go to church based on how many attractive unmarried women there are. I realized that this weekend when I attended the church where I'm nominally a parishioner for the first time in probably a year (notably, I have been sending $10 per week every week through direct tithing even ( Read more... )

I still am finding it hard to believe that I cut myself on spaghetti sauce. Too bad I didn't cut myself worse so I could go to the emergency room and tell the doctor that he needed to stich up my spaghetti sauce wound ( Read more... )

One thing that you need to realize is that other people don't care about you. They aren't interested in your job. They don't care about your hobbies. They don't care about your relationships. They don't care about where you went on vacation. They don't care about how cute your pets are. And they really, really don't care about your kids ( Read more... )

I know better than to think that I can change people's minds about charged political issues - I'm not going to convince anyone that abortion is wrong (although I did get my PETA-member, Hillary-backing secretary to concede that if Hillary is "pro choice" rather than "pro abortion," Sarah Palin is equally pro choice, not pro-moose killing, it's just ( Read more... )

"After patchy morning fog, there will be plenty of sunshine with low humidity and a warm afternoon. Highs will be in the mid-80s with wind from the NE at 4-8 mph. The probability of precipitation is ZERO ( Read more... )

Last PFA until next summer today. Good thing. I hate PFAs. I may never do one again. The defendants are rotten losers who beat their girlfriends. The clients are rotten losers trying to game the system. They deserve each other. They are a drain on society, collecting various welfare benefits paid for by people who actually work. There's ( Read more... )

So it would be hard to find a more enjoyable month than July. It didn't start well, not with my aunt's funeral on July 1. But it got better. I guess it had to. The weather was downright amazing. I had the top down on the car EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE MONTH. It's never happened before. When it rained, it rained at night. And the temperature ( Read more... )

At some point, I'm going to have to conclude that life is going pretty well and that I'm pretty content, at least while the weather stays nice. I get up in the morning and drive to work in my awesome convertible. It's really not getting better than that as far as commutes go unless I move somewhere in a warmer city a block from the office ( Read more... )