Ever so tentatively, John and I have taken our first baby-fied steps out into the realm of actual home ownership. We’ve been renting what we’ve affectionately come to know as“The Warehouse” for nearly 8 years now and while the landlords have made slight indications that they might eventually condo-ize the building - adding central air just in the ( Read more... )

Yeah, yeah, I know I should be posting something more constructive - a lot more constructive. You have no idea the sheer number of posts I started and abandoned over the last couple of weeks. But since I hadn't seen anyone mention this as of yet and since 99.9999% of my friends list has played some version of a role-playing game, I thought it ( Read more... )

1. My coat, pants and wallet are conspiring to keep me from spending money. I have a mid-length shearling winter coat that covers just enough of my ass that it makes hoisting my trapper-keeper of a wallet out of my right cheek pants pocket a minor feat of acrobatics. Because the coat’s fuzz-laden interior tends to cling tenaciously to whatever I ( Read more... )

I don't normally critique much media in blog-form. I mean, truly, what's the point? If I really want to wind up the nerd-herd, there’s always the geek ghettos of AICN, CHUD and DVDTalk. One well-placed kick to the udders of their predictable sacred cows and they explode in sputtering paroxysms of cartoon rage. Plus, hey, it makes for passable ( Read more... )

So I'm not necessarily "feeling" the work bug thing this afternoon. Four and a half days on the same tedious brief will do that to a guy. Besides, I have to leave early in a little over an hour anyway to go for my suit fitting out in the 'burbs. (Yes, I went for the layered tweedy look. Surprise, surprise. You gotta start cultivating that " ( Read more... )

1. One book that changed your life ( Read more... )

. . . than a pre-lunchtime "surprise" escort of a fellow associate right out the front door of the law firm ( Read more... )

One to emasculate:

CARRIE! MIRANDA! SAMANTHA! AND CHARLOTTE!

And one to kinda, sorta re-masculate:

JOHN GOODMAN IS POPS RACER

Yes, I'm feeling posty of late.

Several weeks back, I was invited to join a partner on a business lunch with a representative of one of our biggest clients. Since I had been conversing with this woman for the better part of the last two years on an almost daily basis - being very attentive to answer her every email or telephone query and gently to goad her into producing a ( Read more... )

For the third work day in a row, I've had a major argument pending in some far-flung Illinois Court. Thursday, it was Tazewell County. Friday, it was (the "Nationally Recognized Legal Hell-Hole" of) Madison County. Today, it was before a fairly "tough cookie" judge in Cook County who has taken several jabs at my case in the past. The man looks ( Read more... )