If I had to make an estimate, I’ve spent an hour of my workday in the elevator. I work on the sixth floor. It’s been a very clear and bright day in Baltimore, albeit a cold one. I’ve spent my day delivering paperwork to the third floor. Either I’m given paperwork to take to theContinue reading “On the Slow Passage of Time”
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On Anniversary Years
Needing some mood music, I went to my CDs, and pulled one that I’d not listened to in a while — Danny Elfman’s score for the original Tim Burton Batman film. As I put it in the CD player and leaned back in my office chair, a sudden realization struck me. This summer, it willContinue reading “On Anniversary Years”
On an End to a Tense Day
I’m glad it’s Friday. I’m suddenly not feeling quite so… tense. Some of the things I wanted to get done at work today, I got done. Some of the things I wanted to get done at work today, didn’t happen. Most of the things that got put on my plate at work today, things IContinue reading “On an End to a Tense Day”
On a Bear of a Week
It’s Thursday. I don’t even know how that happened. My brain feels like swiss cheese. I’m tired out of my skull. And it’s Thursday. I need to poke some bears at work tomorrow to get some balls rolling. Then it’s all about putting together text and more text. Thursday. I wonder if it was theContinue reading “On a Bear of a Week”
On the Maddest Ideas
Sometimes, my mad ideas work. I went to fix a cup of coffee. And as I was standing there, getting a coffee mug down out of the cabinet, I noticed, on the counter, was a cannister of Instant Hot Chocolate mix. Hmm, I thought. Could I make a moccachino-like thing? Had I been more awake,Continue reading “On the Maddest Ideas”
On Today’s Inauguration
President Barack Obama acknowledged today that non-believers are part of the American tapestry. That’s a far cry from George Herbert Walker Bush, who said that atheists were neither citizens nor patriots. Or from his son, George Bush the Younger, who said that the hallmark of civilization was a belief in god. I’d like to thinkContinue reading “On Today’s Inauguration”
On a Nagging Question
I wonder if there’s a statue of Pitt the Elder in Pittsburgh. If there’s not, there should be; the city’s named after him, after all. I mean, if Philadelphia can have a statue of William Penn, surely Pittsburgh can have a statue that commemorates one of England’s greatest Prime Ministers.
On “The B Game”
I don’t have anything today. I blame my right foot. It still hurts like muddafudda. Strangely, the one piece of footwear I own that doesn’t hurt my foot when it gets like this is my Nike hiking sandals. So, naturally, on a day when it’s below 20 degrees outside, I’m wearing sandals, shorts, and aContinue reading “On “The B Game””
On the Cold
It was cold today. Really fucking cold. I shouldn’t complain. It was fifteen degrees here in Charm City. Other places were far below that. Still, it’s cold. I don’t like the cold. I especially don’t like the cold, because it makes me limp. Many years ago in college, I accidentally brutally broke a bone inContinue reading “On the Cold”
On Unwritten Scenes
I’ve had The Lord of the Rings on the brain of late, the proximate cause being the repeated e-mails I’ve received from GameStop telling me to come into a local store to pre-order Lord of the Rings: Conquest, which came out on Wednesday. And then, of course, there was my discovery that a new TolkienContinue reading “On Unwritten Scenes”