We've all seen the quote:
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And it’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti- ( Read more... )

I know that my internet browsing is pretty limited compared to many, certainly compared to the readers of this blog.  It's gotten worse since Yahoo! took down its news feed-- used to be that headlines were in the top right corner of the page, then moved to the bottom middle, and now a whole click away, replaced by "features" and "lifestyle", both ( Read more... )

For as long as I can remember, J and I have been exchanging ideas about names.  We call them babynames, but since there's no baby in the current picture they're really just names we like.  We have 6 lists: B boys, J boys, B girls, J girls, cats, dogs.  We used to delete the names no longer liked, but recently we've been keeping them all for ( Read more... )

Sometimes when I'm homesick, I go here and lick the screen.

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I love Barack *that* much more now that I know he is a sworn enemy of the parking nazis, just like me!  Here's the full article, and here's a tasty morsel of an excerpt:

Now let's consider some of his financial decision-making. First, there are those parking tickets. When Obama was attending Harvard Law School, he apparently racked up 19 parking ( Read more... )

I"m taking the day off today since my client's annual report was released yesterday and busy season is officially over.  It's the first day I haven't gone to the office since Sunday, 2/11!  My whole team and I worked very hard the last several weeks (a la 90 to 100 hour work weeks the last 3 weeks), butI feel very good about the job we did.  The ( Read more... )

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i got a new work computer today.  I had a special relationship with my old computer.  My computer is pretty much my desk, since my work station moves from client to client.  I don't have a picture of Julia or a certificate of training or even a mug to hold my pens at any of my desks... my computer is the closest thing I've got to a workstation.  ( Read more... )

I am a 'casual Fridays' kind of guy.

When I graduated from college, upgrading my wardrobe to 'business casual' required a substantial amount of effort and money, and 3.5 years years later, I'd self-assess my performance around a B-.  I'm just not one to spend a lot of money on shoes and clothes.  Due to my limited wardrobe, I am constantly trapped ( Read more... )