The Great Flood

At 12:30 am, I was awakened by one of my dogs who was panic scratching at my bedroom door. I got up to see what the hubub was, opened the door, and he came scrambling in. Whatever. Dogs are weird. So, as long as I was up, I took the opportunity to stumble into the [...]

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In memoriam

Happy Memorial Day everyone—or, rather, a very solemn and reflective Memorial day to you all. For a day that’s supposed to honor our fallen veterans, it pretty well managed to deteriorate into yet another drunken American party day full of furniture bargains and used car sales.
That great happy feeling of the first few weeks of [...]

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Bain de Soleil for that St. Tropez tan…

Three weeks.
Yep, this is my three-week’aversary of my last day at Initech. Having had three whole weeks to do basically nothing but sit and happily contemplate my navel, I’ve wondered where I was at this time years ago…
Three weeks ago, I was cleaning out my cubicle for the last time in a last-minute rush to [...]

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