What a fantastic hike! Yesterday and the day before really were two beautiful days ( Read more... )

A Fox News "anchor" referred to steam gushing out of a burst pipe as an "angry force." As in: "That force.... is so ANGRY!" This explains a lot about Con Ed and the eldritch forces inhabiting the bowels of NYC ( Read more... )

Went fishing for the first time yesterday with Art, Ray, and Katie. Caught a 21 inch fluke, the only keeper of the morning. Then our boat sank when we got back to the dock. Am sunburnt. Great weekend.

Wednesday, October 4, 2006, continued We occasionally get samples sent to us to try things out. Today we got a sample of a new nutrition bar. The office consensus is, it tastes like a fruit roll-up, but looks like a brick of dried diarrhea. Why would anyone create something (especially a food product) that looks like dried diarrhea ( Read more... )

Ach, what to say, what to say ( Read more... )

Life has been grand.

Incredible amounts of progress are being made in terms of career paving and what not, and I am very proud of both of us. Our careers are going to be free of a lot of that sort of bullshit that can be controlled in life ( Read more... )

Last night, I dreamt about Brahms' Hungarian Dances. I was playing them on the piano (never played one my whole life), and while doing so I was visualizing very vivid and beautiful rural landscapes which changed at each new stanza and dance. Soon, I began noticing a sweet young girl with long brown hair parted down the middle appearing during ( Read more... )

I have just completed a feat (ha!) rivaled only by a portion of the homeless representatives of this fair city.

I walked across the Queensboro Bridge barefoot.

In the pouring rain.

Because the MTA broke.

And I wore the wrongest possible shoes to work.

Fucking city owes me a 'pology.

Verizon: Hello, may I please speak to *insert husband's name here ( Read more... )

"...and he's attending business school, so I don't think he's gay, no he's definitely not GAY..."

Um.