During college, I HATED beer. I was the guy that brought his own bottle of wine (started with Boones and worked my way up to Gallo and Paul Masson) to parties because I'd rather lick the side of a urinal than drink the beer from the keg. When I would HAVE to get a beer, I'd go with a Corona, Miller Genuine Draft, or a Rolling Rock...yes, and ( Read more... )

When I worked in Dallas, I lived in the East Dallas/M-Streets area and the radio station was in Uptown. One of the highlights of each work day occurred during the 4am hour as I emerged from my neighborhood and entered the yellowish glow of Central Expressway. Just to my southwest was the vertical glow of Dallas's nighttime skyline. It was so ( Read more... )

I woke up in a slightly grumpy, yet upbeat mood. I was sure it was just a matter of time until I'd be my normal self. But it took longer than I had hoped for my mood to change ( Read more... )

Sometimes I forget that not only is data entry tedious, but is very time consuming. The work I was hoping to finish this week will likely take another 4 or 5 workdays to complete. My biggest struggle with this copy/paste/edit task is my brain's utter craving for distraction. Even working at the office yesterday didn't improve my productivity. ( Read more... )

I'm taking a week off from doing work on the eaves for the house. JD's child-birthing class will be from 10am-2pm this week. Since we gotta be quiet during that time and what needs to be accomplished is a ton of nailing, leaving all that work for the hottest part of the day didn't seem like a good idea (not to mention the predicted probability of ( Read more... )

Quick backstory: JD is starting a new aspect to her career. She is now also working as a doula. A doula is essentially a child-birthing coach/cheerleader/caretaker for the mother during labor and delivery. JD won't be catching babies.JD's first client as a doula called yesterday morning stating that she has dilated to 5cm. FYI - 10 cm is when ( Read more... )

I've avoided addressing this issue lately, but I just feel like letting loose now ( Read more... )

I was going through my PC this morning trying to dump some stuff to free up HD space. I wandered into my old Ankarlo Mornings folder and found my 3 page instruction sheet on how to produce the morning how that I made in Dallas. It is very detailed and does a great job of illustrating the many of the demands of the job and the anal organization I ( Read more... )

The laptop returned from its FOURTH trip to Lenovo's repair depot in the past 45 days. I came into the office, opened the box, saw the repair sheet from this last visit, and became PISSED OFF beyond words. Despite the history of this support ticket; the list of repairs and replacements which includes replacing the mobo, CPU, and other parts as ( Read more... )

My work laptop has returned from its third trip to Lenovo's repair depot in Memphis. This time around the sheet indicates the actions taken were "processor/CPU" and "plastics" (the first and second trips involved "system board/planar" and "memory" as well as reimaging the hard drive during the second trip). I wonder if this will do the trick or ( Read more... )