Apparently my upcoming plan to straighten out my entire life during my vacation next week won't be a guaranteed success.

I don't think there are enough similarities for me to be worried. For one thing, that guy wears, like, way more plaid than I do.

The last time I went in for an allergy shot, I read a brochure that mentioned how difficult it can be to distinguish an allergy attack from a cold. It dawned on me that many of the times I thought I had a cold recently were probably allergies instead, especially when I felt rotten one day and fine the next ( Read more... )

During our trip back east for the holidays, we went to the National Building Museum, a museum that ended up being far more interesting than it sounds. For one thing, its Great Hall is a massive indoor courtyard, with huge columns and rows of walkways set off with arches. The exhibit on concrete mentioned not only how the stuff is made and the ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning to find that someone had rifled through the stuff in my car. They took some change and a couple of iPod accessories, and that appears to be it. They left the registration intact, which I'm thankful for. I understand now why my glove compartment has a lock on it ( Read more... )

Earlier today I was prepared to talk about leaving my current employer and beginning working at a new company soon. I was going to talk about all of the things that I'm looking forward to with the new job, as well as the stuff about my new employer that has me nervous, since I've been in the industry way too long to expect any job to be perfect ( Read more... )

Normally I don't address political issues here. I have my views, as do all of you, and the odds are pretty damn close to zero that one of us will ever change the other's opinion. However, I'm getting increasingly frustrated at the number of issues that used to be in the headlines that no longer seem to warrant public attention. For example ( Read more... )

is the Patriots vs. the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. I know it's a long shot, but wouldn't it be better to not hear yet another sportscaster gloat about how good Indianapolis is this year?

Congrats on clinching the division, New England.

I'm pleased to announce that I'm finally down 20 pounds. My pace of losing weight has slowed, mostly since the urgency isn't there any more. (It's nice having clothes that fit.) The next projects are going to be losing 10 more pounds and adding some muscle so my ribs don't poke out quite so prominently ( Read more... )

Last night my wife and I were at yet another soccer game. The younger chillun's team had been playing in a double-elimination tournament, and they'd only had one loss amidst their victories. This has been a mixed blessing, since each victory meant another evening we'd get to freeze our butts off ( Read more... )

Mr. Cranky has a wonderfully subversive movie review site in which movies are ranked on a 1 bomb to 4 bomb scale. Every once in a while, a movie comes out that's so bad that it gets the stick of dynamite rating ("So godawful that it ruptured the very fabric of space and time with the sheer overpowering force of its mediocrity") or worst of all, ( Read more... )