Today was my last day at work until 2009. We did our "Secret Santa" thing at work today. I got my recipient some chocolate-covered blueberries and raspberries from the One of Kind Show, and somebody got me a gift card from Blockbuster (which is actually something I will use, and like). I did a lot better than an earlier Secret Santa at a previous ( Read more... )

Dear God,

Please make my father stop clicking on "Okay" when he doesn't fully understand what the pop-up window is telling him. That, or let him find some other IT support person than me.

Amen,
  Murray

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Dear Ann Boleyn,

I don't think it's going to go so well for you in this season's The Tudors. I'm just sayin ( Read more... )

A woman was murdered in our apartment building last night; according to reports in yesterday's media, she was decapitated by her husband. I didn't know the family by name, but now I am running through the mental images of everyone I've ever seen push the PH button in the elevator and wondering if it was them. Creepy ( Read more... )

On the bus this morning, I clubbed in the back three times by the backpack of a huge student standing behind me. Eventually, we had this brief conversation:
ME :Dude. How about taking your backpack off?
HIM:...Oh, no you di'int!Apparently, some combination of the consonant-and-vowel sounds I made conveyed some sort of gross insult. Also, it renders ( Read more... )

More Tales from the Dark Side of Transit: Last night's taxi ride home from work was yet another whack-job encounter. This one (who I have had before) has died, personally met Jesus ("very nice man, looks around 23, very calm, very pleasant"), and come back. He's also cured at least three people of cancer through the miracle of Apple Cider Vinegar, ( Read more... )

Fortunately, I'm Not Drinking It For Health Reasons: Yesterday they shut off the water in our apartment building for most of the day. before going to bed last night, I brushed my teeth and drank a glass of tap water. This morning, I drank another glass of tapwater before heading out to start my day, and was greeted by this sign in the lobby:

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Don't Get On Her Bad Side: This is the sort of lovely vanity page mrs_clubber puts together for people she likes (in this instance, my sister).

Do not anger mrs_Clubber. Nice mrs_Clubber. Nice.

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Ernest & Bertram: If you've got eight minutes or so, this video is well done, humourous, and vaguely disturbing. My guess is that if you want to see then you'd better see it ( Read more... )

Spoiler Free: Saw Pirate of the Caribbean 2 on the weekend. It was good fun, but two caveats I pass along to you: (1) There's some scary stuff in there that is not suitable, in my opinion, for small children, and (2) it needs a big "To Be Continued" sign at the end. If you go to this flick expecting to see a complete, finished story, you're going ( Read more... )

Better and Better: MinionJoe (he who says "Clean that up" every single time I sneeze) turns out to be something of a homophobe. I mentioned how I wished my in-laws were coming to town this weekend (instead of two weekends hence) so they could see the Pride parade, and MinionJoe, thinking I was jokin', laughed in sycophantic glee at my wit. When I ( Read more... )