Category: misc.

Seriously. That’s the new “Hooked on Phonics worked for me!”©, kids. Learn it. Live it. Love it. What the hell am I talking about, you ask? Well, it’s my Latin Buddy’s and my new Plan of Action in place of an actual miderm-type review test. See, I’m going to borrow two D20s (that’s a 20-sided… Continue reading “Dungeons and Dragons (TM) taught me Latin” ©

So not only is it my first day on the job without my mentor/trainer, but it is the day we are shipping 25x more orders than usual at my job. And to top it off, I don’t know if it’s the full moon, or some freak of nature, or what, but it would seem that… Continue reading “Katie, bar the door!”

Woo, finally the team I was rooting for in this match won.  Go Italy!  This not-really-a-sports-fan is pleased with the outcome.  I’ll miss watching/listening to the games at work, though.  But who knows; maybe that means I’ll go back to blogging!

So that is not what I wanted to see just as I was heading to bed.  A giant (quarter-sized) dark hairy hideous spider PERCHED ABOVE MY BED.  So I nab some Kleenex to bag the motherfucker – I’m sorry, not only is profanity warranted, but so is the killing of another living being, in this… Continue reading Save me from my imagination

Arrested Development (TM) Season Two is the reason my sunburn has healed.  But it’s also the reason I haven’t been as in shape as I could be, the reason I haven’t gotten many errands done over this long weekend, and the reason I basically didn’t leave the house on some of the most gorgeously un-Seattle… Continue reading Damn that comedic genius

Back before I had this job, I sometimes got together with pals and watched replays of big World Cup games at the George and Dragon.  It was hard to get through the day without the score being spoilered somehow, by an elevator screen or website or oblivious coworker (or once in the subject line of… Continue reading Soccer blues (and whites)

And it is called Wikipedia.  Not just reading it, using it, etc. – though I’m more fully aware now of just how freakin’ helpful it is.  No, I mean EDITING it.  Nothing on the Internet has ever been so gratifying to my relentless OCD-style editor’s mind!  See, I’m a natural editor, and I constantly spot… Continue reading I have a new addiction

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m really glad the weather cooled off a bit.  I spend most of the year bitching and moaning about how cold and lame and waaaah it is and how much happier I am when the sun is shining brightly… until it starts to scorch through my very soul. … Continue reading Praise these manageable temperatures

Yeah, I hate ’em.  I swam with a wetsuit for the first time this weekend, and I just couldn’t handle it – not only did I feel like I was being strangled around my neck, but I felt like someone was grabbing my legs and holding them still… no good, no good at all.  And… Continue reading Down with Wetsuits!

I had a client email me today and say “thanks for being so nice and you learn really fast, I don’t believe you that you’re new at this job. good work”. I LOVE my clients! And my coworkers – today three of us left and watched the Brazil-Japan World Cup game (no spoilers, don’t worry)… Continue reading Mis clientes, los mejores