I got an email from my mom over the weekend in response to my last post. She wanted to know if I had heard the most recent news from the company that operated the birthing center where I was born. The center recently closed under the guise of finance, but more likely due to political [...]
Archive for March, 2007
7 Mar
At least they weren’t Uggs
I was back in the optometrist’s office today because the new glasses weren’t working out. While I was browsing for new frames, an old couple waiting by the months old magazines caught my attention. They were both dressed rather nicely, but their feet were clad in velcro sneakers with good arch support in bland, neutral [...]
6 Mar
No grunting, please, we’re working out
There are a lot of things that endear me the Dutchess County YMCA. I love the way that the day after the women’s locker room got a fresh coat of paint, the entire room still smelled like feet. I love the way the weights in the gym have specialized Resistance Utility Strength Training coatings. Who [...]
5 Mar
Language is a living thing
Sometime Sunday afternoon, a bad mood hit, and it seems to have spilled into Monday. It’s making me get really testy about innocuous things, like the meeting we had at work this morning to discuss some new computer stuff. Before we can go live with the new program, we have to find a way to [...]
2 Mar
Splat
The sweet merciful rain is cleaning the grime off my car as I type. Other than that and coming in fourth place at Trivia last night, and the letter I wrote to my landlady expressing my concern about the $139 increase in this month’s electric bill (the four houses on the property have one meter, [...]
1 Mar
Let the sunshine, the sunshine in
Even though I was bitching about the snow on the car just the other day, and I had to scrape ice off my car AGAIN this morning, I had a wonderful sign of things to come this afternoon. I leave work promptly at 5 every day (yes, I love my job) and today for the [...]
