The lady who is the chief of staff sent me an e-mail this morning to welcome me to The QCC. That would be the Quarter Century Club in the enterprise where I work. I'm not sure what to think about getting this e-mail. She mentions scheduling a virtual meeting with the CEO, virtual only because the company HQ is in Chicago. She continues that I can ( Read more... )

For some reason this evening, Internal DJ decided to start playing Liz Phair: "Extraordinary." I like the song and I went to go find it on YouTube and play it. I used to love hearing it on the radio, when I still listened to the radio. It's funny, I go get videos on YouTube as the go-to, instead of looking them up on Spotify. I suppose it may have ( Read more... )

I'm 59 years old and I'm two decades divorced from nearly two decades of relationship and marriage to one woman, I'm the father of children grown to adulthood. I'm on a couple of dating apps. I date women roughly my age. It is interesting to read for what women say they are looking, in terms of a relationship.

There are women on these apps who ( Read more... )

I was reading earlier and catching up with some friends here when I found an entry by one of my LJ friends, khanadasc, talking about the regrettable exodus from LiveJournal and emigration to Farcebook. I suspect that she is flirting with the idea of picking up the digital pen again and writing here.

The problem of Facebook came to mind. She had made some ( Read more... )

I went to see a movie last night called "The Age of Adeline." It's kind of a science-fantasy movie about a woman who was born in 1908 and stopped aging sometime around the time she was thirty. She meets a man in the modern day and their relationship is seemingly doomed by the problem that she doesn't age and cannot tell anyone about it. It was ( Read more... )

Tell me all the places we could go, and count the headlights passing on the road
Shannon called me around 5:00 PM last night, wanting to know if I were still going to take her and her friend Haley to their summer job at the Bothin Youth Center, west of Fairfax, in Marin County. She and Haley and a couple more of their friends all managed to get ( Read more... )

So, when I checked out the web for news this morning, I found out that a college guy named Elliot Rodger murdered a bunch of people near Santa Barbara on Saturday. I don't have to ask what gets into people's heads. In the article about the incident, Christoper Cantwell sounds like he's onto something: we inculcate in our children a false sense of ( Read more... )

"A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression."
-- Edward Gibbon

A friend of mine posted this on a social media site the other day. It's a video which is part of an art project called "Hysterical Literature." The artist is a photographer, and his project features videos wherein a woman sits at a table reading some passage from her favorite literature. At the same time she is doing this, beneath the table, she is ( Read more... )