And thankful for it too. While work is pretty uptight at the moment, I'm going to be taking things a little easy the rest of this week and weekend at home. After a little down time, I'll get back to dealing with some of …

(HT: Megan)Lord knows I loved me some basic when I was five.

Orchids are a funny bunch. Most of the ones I have are on 12-24 month bloom cycles, so I'm often taking care of them without any real, visible result. I'm happy to say, however, that several of them in my office have new…

Well kiddies... I am again getting ready for travel next week, and that will probably mean that the blogging is going to be light for the next week (not that it's been hot and heavy recently anyway...). I'll be up in Bal…

"Have I died and begun my predestined eternity of torture in the hopeless abyss of hell, or are you just makin' me hot?"

Well kids, it looks like I'm going to be in Chicago around my birthday this year. So to my Chicago gang, get ready for my triumphant (anti-climatic?) return to my first love, the Windy City.I'll be downtown at the Conrad…

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in an effort to deal with food shortages nationwide, threatened today to expropriate farms and raised the price rice producers are permitted to charge. . . . It was at least the fourth …

the place that I looked at before certainly isn't going to pan out, but we did stop by another cute townhouse just down the street from it. Not writing an offer on it right now, but depending upon how long it stays on t…

"Just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people"

Happy Mardi Gras / Shrove Tuesday to celebrants thereof.

Another weekend gone; another week beginning.The weekend was fairly calm. After the emotional exhaustion that was last week, about all I could handle was watching Lost (ok, I'll admit I could probably get into the show i…