I had a very fun day yesterday ( Read more... )

I bitch about work a lot, I'm aware. But sometime there comes a failure so completely epic that if I wasn't witnessing it, I would probably be laughing uproariously at it ( Read more... )

I've decided that I'm going to go back to posting longer things here again, because Tumblr's comment system is so fucking terrible.

I about shit a brick when I opened this year's W2 and found out I'd made $36k in 2013 ( Read more... )

As I've observed on numerous occasions before, renting sucks. It's a miserable experience in myriad ways ( Read more... )

With my new discretionary income, I have been able to periodically get myself some new gadgets. The solar panel I bought to use over at the Citgo dock (where there's no outlets) turned out to be extremely practical, given the typical amount of sunlight Florida gets. It has kept my phone alive for several long days while working over there.

Just ( Read more... )

I'm finally feeling like I'm doing well financially, and that's not something I'm used to. I'd been accustomed to struggling and scraping by with little to no margin or error. Being able to occasionally do things for myself was usually something I did solely out of my tax refund (which is basically a 0% involuntary savings account ( Read more... )

Now, everyone who works for someone else has stories about how they hate their boss. I don't claim to be unique or special in this regard ( Read more... )

I just watched a car ad. This car ad. In the ad, they use the trunk opening size as a selling point. Note the bit with the golf clubs.

Before the 1990s, trunk openings were wider and square. Auto makers create a problem with shitty design, and then take 20 years to solve that problem.

Standard trunk opening until the mid 1990s. Wide and ( Read more... )

I bitch more than I probably should about bad drivers, I admit it. But every so often, there's an incident that makes me feel justified in my jaw-on-floor awe of the stupidity they allow behind the wheel ( Read more... )