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Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Thoughts on this day of days

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November 5, 2024. If I got any sleep last night - and as of this writing, there's no reason to believe I would have - I can guarantee th...
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Monday, November 04, 2024

I wouldn't bank on the outer banks

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I'm a regular/irregular watcher of House Hunters , the HGTV show that follows a potential homebuyer on their house-buying journey. Suppo...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Happy Halloween, 2024!

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Last Halloween, I was in Ireland, celebrating my niece's Master's Degree and, since it was Ireland, and they pretty much invented it...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Joro spiders? There goes the neighborhood.

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Wildlife. In Boston. There have always been rats, of course. And there are also mice. And racoons. And pigeons. And other birds, like starli...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

As the baseball season winds down...

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I never owned a baseball glove, but as a kid I did play baseball on occasion. I grew up in a kid-filled neighborhood, but most of the famili...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Sarco? I think not.

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The older I get, the more my thoughts turn to mortality in general, and my personal mortality in particular. I'll "only" closi...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Dumb just keeps getting dumber

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When I first heard about the raw-dogging on airplanes trend, my first thought, quite naturally, was ewwww. The very idea of joining the mile...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Who's that again in the next cubicle?

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I'm all in favor of work from home (WFH), with an ultra-strong preference for a hybrid model - either 3 days in, 2 days WFH, or 2 WFH, 3...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

"The Temu version of a panda"

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Who doesn't love a panda? They're darling. They're fluffy. They're playful. They're cuddly. We can't get enough of t...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Weird headline or what?

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The Three Mile Island meltdown - which occuured in March of 1979, amazingly nearly 50 years ago now - was the worst commercial nuclear disas...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Worst team-building ever

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Offsites were one thing. A day away from the usual office whatever. So what if all anyone came away with was a slew of rolled up flipchart p...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Oh, let's just privatize everything

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The hospital closings, bankruptcy filing, and reeking greed and venality of its private-jet-flying/yacht-sailing/Fifth-Amendment-taking CEO ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

I couldn't have done this

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When I was in college, I spent my summers waitressing. After college, but before "real life" clicked in, I waitressed for a couple...