So here is another holiday, yet distanced far from the stoic remembrance of Groundhog Day. Valentine's Day is, apparently, the celebration of romantic love. It seems specific to romantic love, not familial love nor the love of camaraderie. Yet this, the most blatant and supposedly strongest and longstanding of bonds, must entitle a holiday to ( Read more... )

Never forget.


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This evening Tina and Brandon went to the Qdoba, and I told them to use my Qdoba card. Now I am in the neighborhood of 400 Qdoba points, also known as one-third of a quesadilla! They received nothing for their efforts!

First I make the fool of Mogul, and now this, forever proving I am the master of sly devilry.

I am a simple man with simple needs, and I am rarely in need of a particular tool, device or other bit of folderol. So when I go to the area Home Depot with a list of one item, I expect to find that particular item in short order, and then perhaps return for a similar item in a different size ( Read more... )

I received the following electronic mail ( Read more... )

This morning I was standing in the exact triangulated epicenter of an area airport to assess its security, as I am oft wont to do, when I spotted a couple on of the departure deck, presumably in the process of departure. Their embrace lasted a longish amount of time, and the area woman was dressed in business class attire, suggesting she was about ( Read more... )

I sat on a park bench today, at the opposite end of an elderly couple. As I did so, the couples' edge of the bench jutted upward ever-so-slightly, though the man acted with a churlishly exaggerated expression as though I had shot him several feet upward. After I glared back, his presumed spouse cautioned him against exhibiting such bizarre behavior ( Read more... )

Today I purchased a quesadilla at the area Qdoba faux-Mexican eatery. I was given a card with a point system attached. My quesadilla earned me 89 points, with the entree threshold being 1,000 points ( Read more... )