It was a week of turbo work and health issues – the baby’s MRI was wonderfully negative. My friend’s MRA – she won’t call to get the results because she says she wants to enjoy her evening. My mother was driven home from the office yesterday, she calls and says, hi, how are you?, I was driven home because I have the classic signs of a heart attack. Stop. What? Yes, but it wasn’t. I…
Yesterday, at the end of a very gnarly workday, I started running a bath and then went outside to my graden with a cup of tea and sat down – ahhhh – the butterflies were still cruising the flowers, the grass looked perfect – I was in Valhalla. Wrong – I looked up and my asshole neighbor has run a wire across my backyard to his shed behind. I tried to ignore it. But I…
The death of analog! All televisions will be digital. The feds are starting to require that as of right now anyone who sells a television has to inform the buyer that an analog television set will not work in 2009. Want an investment tip – digital television manufacturers.
Today, Carolyn Hax wrote about something that was of interest to me, if only because I have spent a lifetime with a girlfriend, who is always way more beautiful than me. I know, hold up, that isn’t exactly true, I see my beauty, but these women are the kind that attract men like a fly to a spider web. I know why I do this – I’m Cinderella. My mother and sister are stunningly beautiful…
The great part about living in the Gulf South and in particular, New Orleans, are the afternoon thunderstorms that have typically a grand crescendo, then the sky opens and a waterfall pours out. The smell is unique to Louisiana – I’ve recognized from a plane hovering over New Orleans. A colleague wrote about how wonderful the smell of the desert is after a storm. I imagine it to have a certain sweet freshness to it…
The Katrina Foundation for Recovery launched a print campaign laden with politically charged undertones in an effort to raise money for rebuilding efforts in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. The campaign also coincides with the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. “Bus,” “Church” and “Pool” each feature a storm-ravaged scene and a hand holding a picture of life before Katrina. A picture of kids boarding a school bus is placed alongside a damaged bus in one ad.…
I did business with two (well actually three) California companies on the house and have to say that everything was fine until there was a problem and suddenly those people, who were friendly enough, became dismissive and rude and indifferent. I just have had it with anyone there – trying to do business with them – this arrogance that seeps from their pores is just mind boggling. I told one of them yesterday that my…
I finally caught up with an old friend for dinner tonight and while we were at Swirl, a new friend came in and said “You are on my list to call” – because he is helping me with someone who knows how to work on WordPress Blogs. The “I’ve been meaning to” is so resonant these days that are going by faster than a wintering bird. How do you stop time, do everything you meant…
You know how when you are a kid and you build things – block structures, doll houses, hiding places – and then you knock them down. That’s what I feel like is going on right now in multiple simultaneous planes – the LaLa is finally planted, everything except for a few minor details is finished and hurricane season is here with all sorts of portent about how this one will knock us down because we…
Work has been an absolute bear lately and right when I thought it couldn’t get worse I was dumped on by a co-worker. Tonight as I sat here multitasking with six very important things on my to do list (pushing down the other 20 very important things to when I get time), I got a call from a colleague in a land far far away – when I shared with him the “dump” he was…