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  • Criminals Suck At lunch today, I went to the post office to send a package to an eBay buyer. There were about 14,000 people in line, so I decided to use the self-serve machine in the lobby. I have been using this mac…

  • Your Questions Answered IUsweetie311 asks: if your boss is that stupid and horrible, why don't you quit, I would. There are contractual considerations that make it difficult and risky to leave, and there are time…

  • I can't concentrate on anything today. I keep thinking of all these things I need to do, and what I need to do to be able to do them, and it's overwhelming. Not to mention the fact that I'm very jittery this morning, eve…

  • Nephew Update I just talked to my sister. Her contractions are about 7 min apart now & she's been having them all day. I would guess that by this time tomorrow I'll have a new nephew. We'll see. She said also that…

  • UPDATE: I told Mr. S I was going to bring my daughter, and he got all freaked out because he thought she would divulge something confidential to her class in her report (this is a public meeting after all, so I don' t kn…

  • Tennis Class Pisses Me Off, Insomnia (and Dreams of Saddam), Thanksgiving Plans, & Weight Loss I'm working on two other entries--more Mr. S material, and another travelblogue. But for now, I give you a tennis blo…

  • The Mr. S Lexicon My boss's grasp of the language makes George W. Bush look like Winston Churchill. I've been keeping a list of words he consistently mispronounces and/or misuses. This is by no means an exhaustiv…

  • It was a rough night. After a couple of months without neighbors above us or next door, someone moved in upstairs last night. Last night,as in after midnight, when everyone was sleeping. Alex went out to investigate this…

  • I didn't accomplish nearly as much as I'd wanted to this weekend. I wrote about half an essay, did a lot of laundry and dishes, and picked up the living room. That's about the beginning and end of my productivity. Unless…

  • Small update: Spent yesterday doing laundry and napping. I never nap. I woke up from said nap because I thought there was an earthquake. I heard a rattling noise and the bed was shaking a little. It felt like the beg…

  • Well, see, I'm not actually reading The Agassi Story just yet. I meant for that entry to be private, just a reminder that this is something I would like to read (I have tons of these private notes in my blog, since I fig…

  • I took the Blogging Personality Quiz at About Web logs and I am... The WriterWords captivate me. And, I like to capture words. Blogging enables me to write often. It also provides a place for me to share what I write wi…

  • TRAVELBLOGUE DAY 4, SUNDAY MAGIC KINGDOM PIRATES DINNER THEATER We got up early, had breakfast in our room, and headed to the Magic Kingdom. Since we'd only spent a little time there the night before, we wanted…

  • Consider this the official end of the moratorium on Mr. S material. I will have at least one story for you very soon. Bastard. I've been trying to be nice, but he's pushed me over the edge today. The man is just not nor…

  • TRAVELBLOGUE DAY 3, SATURDAY 100th BIRTHDAY PARTY, TAMPA MAGIC KINGDOM There was a party in Tampa for my great aunt's 100th birthday on Saturday, and we decided to sleep in, go to the party (a lunchtime thing, fro…

  • Had a garage sale yesterday with the rest of our apartment complex. Actually, there are hundreds of units in this complex (I have the number 600 in my mind, but I think it's probably more like 2-300), and there were abou…

  • TRAVELBLOGUE DAY 2--FRIDAY, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS We got up early and were all exhausted. We had the crappy hotel buffet breakfast, where the crappy waitress tried to sell me a carafe of orange juice for $4.95. Then she as…