Wake me up before you go, go
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007It’s Ricky’s birthday today. He’s only ten but he seems to be getting an early start on creeping senility.
He came wandering downstairs this morning to ask me why all the clocks said 6:36.
Me: Because that’s what time it is. Why? What time does your clock say?
Ricky: 6:36
Me: So, what’s the problem?
Ricky: Am I supposed to […]
Celebrate me home
Monday, May 28th, 2007Here’s something I learned relatively early in life:
Holidays suck.
It’s probably not their fault.
On holidays, the family all gets together to eat and drink and be merry. Unfortunately, too often they eat some, drink way too much and, instead of being merry, they be belligerent.
Of course, for all I know, that might be their idea of […]
I found her diary underneath a tree …
Saturday, May 26th, 2007Now that Net access has returned to my life …
Check out these budding literary giants.
I guess this is what happens when your high school English teacher spends a lot of time warning students about the evils of clichès.
What’s interesting to me about them is that you can’t tell from reading them if the kids who […]
Operator, can you help me make this call?
Saturday, May 26th, 2007Well, not if he/she doesn’t happen to have a spare router handy.
[We interrupt your regularly scheduled life for this special techno-geek announcement … ]
Yes, fans, the entire household network is down because the 8-port router has died (RIP). I’m not precisely going through Net withdrawal because my spouse has kindly made his computer available while […]