I will not be at Karate on Wednesday night or Thursday night due to preparations for and celebration of my Mom’s 50th birthday extravaganza.

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* DISCLAIMER: As far as I know, no one in my family has any ill-will toward McCabe-san. * Last night I had a dream that it was summertime and I was in the back seat of my Dad’s truck at the drive through for Double D’s Ice Cream. Mike McCabe was waving to us and […]

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I elected to spend the evening in last night due to my allergies being kicked up since I cleaned out my PC with canned air. We had a quick dinner, and as we were sitting down I got a reference phone call for my good college buddy, Mike. Mike had called me earlier in the […]

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I was inadvertantly rude to the Evil PM today on the way out of the office: Her: “Going home?” Me: “Yeah, is that OK with you?” Her: … &ltlooks wounded&gt I really thought she had another task or something that would keep me in the office, I really wasn’t trying to be a dick. I […]

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Oh man, that chicken and rice from last night is mounting to make a forcible and destructive exit. I hope this holds off until I get back home, or else I’m going to have to annihilate a work toilet. I don’t know if they can take this…

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This weekend was a pretty average one… we spent Friday night with and company to celebrate his birthday. Since I still had a re-admit, we elected to go see Team America. This was probably the best movie that I got to see for free in a long time. It was average over-the-top South Park humor […]

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Yesterday was the worst day on record at work. I finally got to find out what my Project Manager, Elaine, wanted to talk to me about. She sat me down to expound on how a certain instance of not knowing the table structures that we have (a large database system by anyone’s measure) disappointed her […]

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Last night was one of the most glorious workouts! Sensei Hartman elected to give spirit training aimed specifically at the children of the dojo, with some spectacular results. We were doing three way kick with some consequences for those that put their leg down (graciously, the adults were exempt from punishment). The first offense of […]

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Tonight I had a “team celebration” with my coworkers. I had originally scheduled to flex my time for a half day so I could be here when the roof guy was fixing my chimney, so I was a little frustrated that they had elected to have this celebration tonight. Either way, I figured I would […]

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I just got a broken English phone call from someone at the Sony authorized repair place. They said that this damage constituted physical damage and was not covered by the warranty. She said she had a quote to give for getting the camera fixed. I asked what it was, and she replied $310.00. I can’t […]

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