A recent mailing from my employer's department of reducing health-insurance ( Read more... )

There is a class of junk mail that tries earnestly to appear to be something Official and Important. You know the type -- the security paper with the three perforated strips around the edges that says something like "important tax documents" on the outside. These usually pique my curiosity enough to see what the pitch is, on the way to the ( Read more... )

Another episode of "yes, we talk like this":

In a restaurant:
D: What's taking so long with my salad?
M: They're filleting your anchovies one by one.
D: They're catching my anchovies ( Read more... )

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I'll be leading services tomorrow night (and Saturday morning) at my synagogue, including reading torah. (Both the rabbis are away.) I'm looking forward to it. One small monkey wrench was thrown at me -- last week we switched to a new siddur for Friday nights, an interim prayerbook based on the forthcoming Mishkan T'filah. (MT is out, but our ( Read more... )

The most recent gathering of the Transarc doc group ( Read more... )

When I did laundry a few days ago, I found a sock in the dryer that belongs to neither of us. I'm going to assume that no one broke into our house to do laundry, so that points strongly to another theory.

For the longest time I assumed that dryers ate socks (and sometimes expelled them as lint). But no! My dryer is apparently a sock transporter ( Read more... )

I learned today that there is a full-service gas station on my way to/from work. I didn't know we had any of those locally. It's been years (probably decades); what is the conventional tip ( Read more... )

While driving past the Office Depot in Monroeville, which had horrible service the last two times we were there (leading us to decide never to return):

Dani: They could improve their business a lot if they hired a second person.

Me: The number of cars in the parking lot is kind of disturbing.

Dani: Two would overwhelm them ( Read more... )

Humor:
This Frazz strip rings true. :-)
Quote of the day, by gnomi: "The simple carbohydrate asks, 'What's this?' To him you should explain about all the starches that are chametz, but not the afikomen."
Ten Principles of Economics, Translated includes this gem and many others ( Read more... )