Our resident loony legislator from West Jordan (btw, if you live in West Jordan, you fail at life for reelecting him) wants the state legislature to issue a statement basically telling retailers to say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays, because we're a Christian nation and he won't stand for this war on Christmas any longer ( Read more... )

If a state does not formally recognize a relationship between two adults, do HR policies about nepotism and so forth apply?  It seems like there should be some rule against the boss banging the secretary, but on the other hand if you don't give any legal standing to a relationship it seems a little hypocritical to then turn around and subject it to ( Read more... )

I just shortened a meeting from a half hour to fifteen minutes.  It was pretty rad.  The meeting was called because one of the new subsystems' structure will cause our foremen to have to enter two tickets instead of one for certain activities.  After not saying anything for ten minutes, I finally broke in with the fairly obvious solution, to not ( Read more... )

“We’re surprised by the remarks of racism,” said Juan Antonio Villanueva, the communications director for Madrid’s 2016 Olympic bid. “Spain is not a racist country-quite the opposite ( Read more... )

I used to vastly prefer the frenetic The End Is The Beginning Is The End to its slower counterpart The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning.  Yes, I'm aware that that Batman movie sucked.  Anyway, after being shocked to find TBITEITB being used in the Watchmen trailer, I'm forced to rethink my preference.  My musical tastes have evolved; then ( Read more... )

My list doesn't look as pathetic as I feared it would.  What's the point of stating what books I intend on reading?  Why is Narnia listed separately from LionWitchWardrobe?  Damn this meme for outing my Jane Austen period!  Anyway.

1. Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2. Italicize those you intend to read.
3. Underline the books you LOVE.
4. Reprint ( Read more... )

I used to put out chocolate-covered mint patties in my candy dish, and they were popular.  A Costco tub costs around $10, and they last at least a month.  In fact, the last one lasted so long that by the end they were kinda hard.  A year ago I tried switching to kisses, but people seemed to prefer the mints.  Last month I decided to try a bag of ( Read more... )

Last night Zeke chewed up one of Chris's flipflops.  He had been watching a movie with Chris, but apparently the movie was so awful that he felt the appropriate thing was to go into the next room and chew on the leather strap.  A few hours before that I had wondered aloud "What did we do wrong with Zeke?  Why can't he behave like Max?"  Chris was ( Read more... )

Yesterday the window guys came back to fix some of the things that went wrong with the initial installation.  Hey, it's only a month later, no biggie.  Hrmph.  They were surprisingly helpful and I really did get the sense they wanted to do a good job.  They patched up some holes, and have an appointment to return for more extensive work next Friday ( Read more... )

I've left the guild I've been in since launch.  It was kind of traumatic.  I've played with the guild leader since Butcherblock Mountains.  I'm aware this makes absolutely no sense to most of you.  But in the end it was kind of a "it's not you, it's me" thing.  I just wasn't happy there.  The game is supposed to be fun, and it wasn't.  I deal with ( Read more... )