Category: Categorizing Things is Overrated

Let me explain where I’ve been the last week:   Excuse, excuse, blah, work, excuse, excuse, getting Patrick ready to leave for Brazil, excuse, some more work, blah.   It’s a good thing I rested up over my week-and-two-days off so that I had the energy to come up with all those excuses.   In…

January 1, 2008 was absolutely spectacular.  Well, the wee hours anyway.  The driving home and the unpacking and the tidying up was just sort of normal, not what I’d call spectacular exactly, but the way we rang in the new year was just great and maybe tomorrow I’ll tell you about it.  Because . ….

Why, when you’re trying to get out of work by 2pm, but you MUST fund everyone’s 401K before you leave, and you can’t get the numbers to add up in your spreadsheet, and you check it three times, and finally you figure out a really dumb mistake you made, and meanwhile 45 minutes have gone…

I’m all done with this week.  But the week, it ain’t done with me.  No, no, it is 2pm on Wednesday and I have 21 hours left of working (thanks Amanda!) – because this week is not a week when people can take those things called Lunch Breaks.  It is a week when Lunch Breaks (and Restful Periods…

The oldest boy in my life is six months old today.  As a birthday present, he got a trip to the vet to have his baby-making abilities cut off before we became grandparents.  He’ll never miss ’em.  I dropped him off at 7:30 am, and by 11 Patrick had gotten a phone call that he was…