Today was a miserable, sloppy day. Rain, cold driving rain. Pretty much all day. I hate it. It wouldn’t have been so bad had I not gone on an impromptu road trip. But the company let me leave early today at noon, and I needed to get my Christmas shopping done, and that meant roadContinue reading “On Hateful Weather”
Monthly Archives: December 2006
On Santa's Reindeer
And just because I was in a silly Christmas mood… 🙂 You Are Comet A total daredevil, you’re the reindeer with an edge! Why You’re Naughty: You almost gave Santa a heart attack when you took him sky diving Why You’re Nice: You always make sure the sleigh is going warp speed Which of Santa’sContinue reading “On Santa's Reindeer”
On Doctors and their Names
Last week the agency that placed me at where I worked called me — they wanted to know how the assignment was going, as I’d been there for three months and the company had told them it would be a three to four week work assignment. “What do you do there?” I tried to explain.Continue reading “On Doctors and their Names”
On Things Brought to You by the Letter "P"
Keith DeCandido prompted–what are ten things that I like that begin with the letter “P”? Hmm, let’s think. I like pizza. I haven’t had any pizza in well-nigh four months, but I do like pizza. I especially like pizza with pineapple and ham. Pineapple may be the world’s most perfect food, and it’s a yummyContinue reading “On Things Brought to You by the Letter "P"”
On My Aristocratic Title
I wish you a most joyous New Year, my most admirable and excellent Hobbits! In that light I announced to you all today my title of aristocratic bearing to be used forthwith! My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: The Most Honourable Allyn the Assiduous of Studley Roger Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title “Allyn the Assiduous.” IContinue reading “On My Aristocratic Title”
On "Now and Then"
In 1994 and 1995 Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr got together at McCartney’s Sussex farmhouse studio and worked on three demo tapes given McCartney by Yoko Ono, to take demos done by John Lennon in the late 1970s and 1980 and turn them into finished Beatles songs. Two songs, “Free as a Bird”Continue reading “On "Now and Then"”
On the Nonsense
My grandmother lost her purse. My dad and I were eating dinner. My grandmother, rather than eat anything, wanted to find her purse, and she was growing increasingly angry. She looked in the broom closet. She looked in the oven. She stood on her tip-toes and tried to look in the top cabinet. Every cabinetContinue reading “On the Nonsense”
On a Carl Sagan Stamp
Star Trek author Kevin Lauderdale has made a proposal: It’s time to commemorate Carl Sagan, author of COSMOS and Contact with a postage stamp. I’ll let Kevin explain: December 20th will mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Carl Sagan. This makes him an eligible subject for a U.S. postage stamp. If, like me,Continue reading “On a Carl Sagan Stamp”
On Today's Necktie
Today’s necktie is a Christmas necktie. It is a Winnie-the-Pooh necktie. It is a Classic Pooh necktie, an E.H. Sheppard Pooh, not the Disney Pooh. I feel spiffy. I feel tres chic. The tie looks tres cool. Why am I using a French adjective? Winnie-the-Pooh and Christmas. A winning combination. 🙂
On a Beatles Christmas
Today I went in search of my Christmas music collection. It took a little digging, a little rearranging, and I probably needed a torch and a pith helmet, but ultimately the prize was mine. I had my Christmas music. 🙂 The Beatles themselves recorded a Christmas song–“Christmas Time Is Here Again,” released originally on oneContinue reading “On a Beatles Christmas”