I had five consecutive days of vacation over Thanksgiving. I love My Beautiful Wife, but she cockblocked every single day with a commitment. Five days, five obligations. I was looking forward to staying in my own home and vegetating this weekend. I forgot that she had booked me into more commitments. Some negotiating ensued, and […]

I was ecstatic to get an invite to a Texas Hold ‘em poker tourney this weekend. Well… Technically I guess I invited myself. Heard some guys talking in the lunchroom and I begged my way in to the game. Then I got a call from the Country F-i-L.  He needs me to run out to […]

I am goofin’ off like a muddy foyer today.  Things are quiet around the workplace and I’m depressed and unmotivated. If I were a ditch digger, I’d still be standing at the back of the truck, pretending to pick out which shovel I should use… At 3 p.m. Also fired. I’d be fired. My pistol […]

The blog hole from yesterday wasn’t entirely my fault. My company ratcheted down every bit and byte that wasn’t already bolted to the floor after the Cryptolocker virus ripped into us. The IT department throttled down our Internet connection until they could slap some virus updates in place. By the time I got home it […]

If you check the Comments section of a Human Interest story in the on-line version of any American newspaper, you’ll find no fewer than four people who burned calories to inform the writer that he/she just wasted the readers’ time. “With X, Y, and Z happening in the world, you wasted valuable space on a […]