on metro: Is that your bag?
After all these years, I finally had a real live “Is that your bag?” moment on the metro. It had nothing to do with combating terrorism or anything like that. I just didn’t want the poor guy to leave his...
Category: asides
What, that old trick again?
Seriously now, how stupid do they think people are? Since I read about the same thing happening 4 years ago (and 4 years before that, too) in other states, I’ve actually been waiting for this one to show up, almost...
Some things you really can’t (or shouldn’t) make up!
That saying is true in so many senses of the word. Knowing enough people from that area of Pennsylvania, I thought that I’d gotten all of the “beaver” joke giggles out of my system. Hearing that someone went to “Beaver...
Oh yeah, you betcha!
This is the last day before my friend & co-worker Betsy goes out for her maternity leave or some such thing, it sounds made up to me. While she’s out, I’m once again in charge of the team for a...
Thomas Covenant: A.L.H.
I admit that this is mostly only funny if you’ve read a lot of fantasy books, but still worth a chuckle. Mightygodking has taken a much more apt turn with the phrase “you can’t judge a book by its cover”...
“I’m done with it.”
My very good friend James was out and about today and he swung past my office to bring me a box of Lindt chocolates. Said he, “You’ve been too down lately and I’m done with it.” I did have to...
religion: Only 8?!
I’ve seen this ad in Express for the past few weeks, and it always gives me a bit of pause, but I usually only see it on my commute, so it easily slips out of my mind. This ad was...
Looks like mornin’ in your eyes
Apparently it has become impossible for me to sleep in past 7am. No matter how much slacking off/staying up late I was doing the night before, I still roll over on the non-workdays thinking that I might have stayed in...
… it means add another naught.
It’s probably both my sanity- and food-deprived state from having been in meetings for the past three hours and skipping lunch, but this makes me giggle: In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City...
A word of advice…
Don’t provoke a mime on stilts. The Maryland Renaissance Festival was a lot of fun today, ate way too much, drank way too much, closed the festival out yet still made it home at a decent hour. A great day...