Corporate is sending me to Akron, Ohio for management training. Free meals, free hotel, free shower curtain...

I'm so excited I could vulcanize something.

I love puns. It's a low form of humor, but when you can use them quickly and easily, it's an excellent skill to harness. My boss is quite apt at such deliveries ( Read more... )

I had today off so my buddy Lari and I weeded through a bunch of books on NYS law and then the Codes, Rules, and Regulations binders. It's official. We're going into business together. We still have to root through our own financials and plan for necessary start-up capital ( Read more... )

I talked to my Dad for the first time in a few months today during an obligatory Father's Day phone call. At least we both wanted the conversation to end ( Read more... )

Las Vegas is the most amazing city on Earth. The town is just full of itself. Almost too full of itself, I would imagine. There is SO much money flowing into Las Vegas that three multi-million dollar resort hotel/casinos sprout up each year. And that's a lot of Mexican maids on the payroll. It's just hard to believe all that glitz can be self- ( Read more... )

Hidden camera shows started it all, and I could curse them. Because most of them blow ( Read more... )

Been pretty humdrum the last couple days. I talked to a few people I haven't talked with in awhile, last night being the first time I signed onto instant messenger in months.

I would post more, but Lari and Balki got locked out on a window ledge, and are coincidentally talking down a "jumper".

Occasionally, life offers up an event, which may at the time seem frustrating or horrible, but in retrospect the memory arouses a warm feeling inside you, because the event serves as a reminder, and a confirmation, that those who took part in that event are your FRIENDS ( Read more... )

At 12:35 this afternoon I became a father. I was fortunate enough to bear witness to the birth of my 98 infant praying mantis hatchlings ( Read more... )

Summer is killing the furniture biz. We're getting about half the people through the door than we did last month, and it's really sucking. I've been accustomed to a certain level of weekly income and now its been down like 20 ( Read more... )