Attention, youth of America: you will get older ( Read more... )

This weekend was very busy. I saw a friend at the coffee shop who asked me how I was feeling. I told him I felt listless. I told him I was waiting for twenty-four or maybe forty-eight hours. He asked me what I was waiting for. I told him I was either waiting for something good or nothing at all. He smiled and told me he was also waiting, though not ( Read more... )

One the way home today I stopped by the Shell station to fill up my gas tank. As usual, the gas station demanded payment beforehand, and I was compelled to hand over a one-hundred dollar bill to secure my place at the pump. The attendant thought this amusing, and as I walked out of the door of his shop, he quipped that he would see me in a few ( Read more... )

This life we live is so full of surprises ( Read more... )

I cleaned my desk at work yesterday. The grime and spilled-coffee residue had been building long enough. It had been so long since anyone had seen the veneer of the desk that no one knew what color it was anymore. Once the desk was cleaned a few dollars changed hands among those who wagered. Now the desk smells of orange cleaning solution...not ( Read more... )

I have noticed a tendency that is being established over the past few months, and it has caused great distress. Upon deeper reflection I must note that this tendency is not good, not evil, but is very instructive. Everything I desire has been taken from me systematically, so that the lack of these things has triggered a multitude of sufferings ( Read more... )

If you read this, and it does not apply to you, feel free to disregard it. If you read it and it does apply to you, know that I have hope that the conclusion to this stumbling block I have set before myself in you will soon be removed, and this will no longer apply ( Read more... )

I thought we were done. After tonight's last exchange, we are. I will no longer talk with this man, as he has now proven it to be pointless. I am, in the process, breaking a personal record for number of blog posts in a single day, a record that I am sure will stand for some time to come. He took some time between reading my last email and sending ( Read more... )

Sigh.

He keeps coming. For those of you following this saga I post the latest exchange. He is tenacious, I must admit, but now he is playing the part of revisionist historian. When one rewrites the events to suit ones aim it is truly a work of sadness and desperation. Observe:

To publish my personal messages to you in a blog without my permission ( Read more... )

Hopefully this is the last chapter in this saga. I have apparently embarrassed our friend. I received this a little while ago:

To post a private communication between us on your blog as an attempt to embarrass me only illustrates the kind of person you are. Who would do such a thing? No well adjusted normal person would. I simply edited your ( Read more... )