No one has done it lately, but I was always perplexed by people who complained when my blogs/tweets/updates were too long or too frequent. When they buy newspapers at a newsstand do they try to pay only for the sports and arts sections? Do they call television stations and ask them to eliminate all the shows they don't watch?

Spent the last four days cooped up in the house, dividing my time between work (for my job) and the boy. I think I left the house twice, and that was to throw out the trash. As a homebody, it wasn't so strange, but between the grey drizzly days and the lack of anything truly interesting happening, I wonder if I've grown a little weirder without ( Read more... )

What does Dan Kelly really want for Christmas?

Yes, yes, yes, a healthy wife and son. Blah blah blah. But what of the goodies?

Suggestions? Box sets? Books? Doodads?

I have four older sisters, in case you didn't know that. We all get along quite well-politics notwithstanding in one case-even if we're not all up in each others' business all the time. I come from a solid family of independent people, if that makes sense. We're wired to make our own way in the world without expecting handouts, but we always know ( Read more... )

Twenty years ago I figured I'd be a serial killer by now. So did a lot of people, though some supposed I'd shoot up a McDonald's.

What went right?

Seriously.

Yes, Mike is good for me, but she's only been around for 11 of those years. Try again, you saps.

Half of me is a rather refined and friendly individual, the other half is a crude, bitter, and angry jerk.

How to create the final Reese's peanut butter cup of my personality? How? How?