burnt rice means home
It’s been a pretty productive weekend. I tried to get the whole Christmas spirit and think of others and buy gifts and such. We headed to Potomac Mills and by phone I found out that I couldn’t really find anything...
Tagged: stuff
the best laid plans
Jenifer said yesterday that when making plans in DC, you should expect the unexpected and she was right. It was to be our hooky day, I went in and worked a 1/2 day, and even after 4 hours was in...
I’m glad others are saying it…
Freeman slams Black History Month | BBC NEWS | Entertainment Actor Morgan Freeman has dismissed America’s Black History Month, held annually to mark the contribution of black people, as “ridiculous”. I don’t want a black history month. You’re going to...
pith and vinegar
Contrary to the Express snippage yesterday, I don’t wake up every morning in my online guise of Angry Ranting Blogger. Most days go quite well, I’m a pretty patient person and it takes a lot to really get under my...
Yvan Eht Nioj…
I’d Love This Product Even If I Weren’t A Stealth Marketer | The Onion This cracks me up, very well done. Honestly, this awesome beverage packs such a punch, you’d practically have to pay me not to pretend to talk...
they got me again
Someone at the Express really likes my blog, I guess. Or I just say the right things at the right time! Figures, Tom Vander Wal ends up in the NYT, I get in the Post’s free daily. My rants about...
Boutique Bowling
In the corporate neon daylight of Seventh Street NW at night — amid the welter of pubbers, clubbers, field-tripping suburbers and howling sports fans — there is this strange new (and retro) evidence of renaissance in Washington: You can go...
Lottery Logic meets Human Kindness?
Cough and Turn Your Head | washingtonpost.com The American purveyors of Swiss-made Ricola cough drops are celebrating the mother company’s 75th anniversary with a cold- and flu-season contest — and a challenge to human nature. Participants are to keep an...
Y’all better recognize!
As mentioned already, we got some serious recognition at the office. They announced our names at the company holiday party, and we might have been there if we’d known about it. I still think the party I attended was a...
stay in bed, forget the rest
I am floating high on daytime cold meds at the moment… In the weekly meeting this morning, I was absolutely fascinated with my pen’s see-through ink chamber. Right now I’m just pretty loopy, in the quiet way, it’ll take me...