Travels With Maggie: Part II

Travels With Maggie: Part II

(In case you missed Part I, we’ve saved it right here for you) DECEMBER 27th:  Jordan’s Furniture It’s that week between Christmas and New Year’s and Maggie is off from school.  While I’m sure she would be perfectly content spending all day in the house reading, watching television, or playing video games (or perhaps some combination thereof), … Continue reading →

Travels With Maggie: Part I

Travels With Maggie: Part I

One of the side effects of my new employment status (or lack thereof) is that I am now the one who will hang with the children in the event of any early release or off day from school altogether.  We used to split these duties (and by “split” I, of course, mean Amy did it … Continue reading →

Up In The Air Associates, Inc.

Up In The Air Associates, Inc.

Have you ever seen the movie Up In The Air?  It was the one where George Clooney kept flying around the country firing people.  He worked for a company that broke the bad news to employees of companies that lacked the sack to do it themselves.  While they didn’t focus on it much, the company … Continue reading →

New Year Extra: Stats!

New Year Extra: Stats!

It’s been 2012 for 36 whole minutes and my friends at WordPress.com prepared this lovely report for me to share with you all.  Some of the numbers don’t jibe with mine (they seem to be about 800 views shy of what my numbers tell me, for instance) but some interesting stuff nonetheless. If nothing else, … Continue reading →

A More Serious Issue?

A More Serious Issue?

Now that some people are reading my blog they’ve asked whether or not I’m going to touch on what they termed “more serious issues.”  I consider things like my family and my life and my search for a job plenty serious but I think what they mean by serious is, dare I say it, p … Continue reading →

My Inheritance Lost

My Inheritance Lost

I have seen the film The Family Stone a number of times despite it really being a mediocre, at best, film.  First of all, it was one of those films wherein the trailer essentially lied about its plot.  To watch it, you would think it was a slapstick comedy of hijinks and tomfoolery surrounding a … Continue reading →

Disney On Nice

Disney On Nice

When I was a kid we, as a family, didn’t really get out all that often.  I remember going to two movies (Star Wars in 1977 and Moonraker two years later) and occasionally making it to a restaurant.  Our family vacations were always to the houses of aunts, uncles, or grandparents.  All in all, we … Continue reading →

My Father, Myself

My Father, Myself

Since most of you reading me at present are also my friends on Facebook or, you know, my actual family, then you’re already aware that I celebrated a birthday on Tuesday.  Of course, by “celebrated”, I mean I sat in my living room for many hours preparing for an over-the-phone job interview that lasted about … Continue reading →

My Award-Winning Blog

My Award-Winning Blog

Can one blog about blogging or is that too meta?  Of course, I already did once, but that was my first time and I was trying to be all introductory and everything.  But since then (and it has been sooooo long, after all) I’ve avoided the self-referential look back.  Actually, that’s not true at all … Continue reading →