Nnnnnn-naive!

This weekend The Boy’s best friend from Maryland came and stayed with us for 3 days and 3 nights (for the sake of respecting his privacy, I’m going to call him “D-boy”).  The Boy and D-boy have known each other for a few years now, and even though they’re 100 miles apart, they still talk [...]

Ah-noy-ing: A quick list of things that make me grumble

(in no particular order)

cold eggs
pushy election staffers
craptastic sophomore album efforts/calling your third album a “b-sides and rarities” when it is clearly an album
journalists & editors who do not check facts, spelling, grammar, or the credibility of their sources before going to print
people who say they are “[area of expertise] experts” or even “[specialty focus] professionals” [...]

Who knew?

Going through Amazon and this book showed up in my recommendations:
 
We needed this genre extended beyond “Everyone goes to the potty?”  There were whole groups of kids out there thinking that doctors, teachers, lawyers, bus drivers all go to the potty, but not firefighters–no WAY can firefighters need to potty.
I mean, doesn’t the whole handling [...]

When Blahs Attack

Lack of sleep never does me good anymore.
There was a time when I was propelled to higher levels of consciousness and being by depriving myself of sleep for 36-48 hours.  Designs would flow like liquid gold from my sketching fingers, words would pour out the moment pen was set to paper or fingers to keyboard, [...]

It’s Thursday, I’m Insane

Yes, I just sorta ripped off The Cure in my post title.  All of the originality is being sapped out of me as I sit here in Government Cube Land listening to the woman 2 cubes over chomp on chips with her mouth open. 
The sound is driving me insane, and I have no escape.
Maybe it [...]