Month: August 2011

  • Birthday: It’s not just all about the food

    Only, it is. Because the food was great! The rest of the day was not as good. Food: Breakfast – Cottage cheese and cantaloupe Morning snack – Farewell cupcake from the interns Lunch – Mushroom chicken ravioli Afternoon delight- Birthday cake (Mocha chilled layered whipped cream cake from La Bonne Bouchee) Dinner – Dim Sum…

  • Not shown: pie and cupcake

    I cannot keep up with the chocolate. I think the problem is I should have demanded something more specific than “something chocolate every day.” I am getting muti-serving products, and he keeps demanding I eat some of his offering every day. I am sure this is why gods demanded burnt offerings. It just gets to…

  • Talking Gary Down From the Ledge

    This is how Gary perceives his 401k. He shrieks, “I am just throwing my money away!” I tell him*, ‘There are two numbers on the statement. Total amount of currency. Total amount of shares. Your money doesn’t go into the currency total. They buy shares with your money. If the market goes down 30%, and…

  • Eggs Benedict Arnold

    Picture the Rat Pack – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis Jr. Okay, now swap out every member of the Rat Pack with a distant cousin of the original. Switch:Frank SInatra with Bing CrosbyDean Martin with Foster Brooks.Peter Lawford with Peter SellersSammy Davis Jr. with Harry Bellafonte So, you now have big…

  • My Birthday Month

    Here are my current birthdays month demands: There is a note on the thermostat that says “THERMOSTAT STAYS BETWEEN 70 AND 73. BIRTHDAY MONTH RULE.”I have been brought chocolate every night. We are going to see Bridesmaids (it’s out again – why?) at an actual movie theater. Gary hates movie theaters, unless the big screen…

  • To Tami’s Point. Let’s Discuss.

    Tami looked at the Cooper post, and commented: “Hey, that guy had family members who knew that he’d committed the crime, but the people who loved him didn’t turn him in while he was alive? Huh!” So I wondered, what could a family member do that might motivate me to turn them in? I thought…

  • Mr. Cooper

    Steve from work called me over to read the breaking news about a) the Australian collar bomb AND b) the big D. B. Cooper news. It isn’t decided, because they couldn’t get fingerprints to clinch it, but I seriously consider the D. B. Cooper case closed. The guy suspected of being D. B. Cooper ……

  • I Do These Things To Myself

    I had a bad day, and ninety percent of it was entirely my fault. If only I were a completely different person. That’s my problem right there. NOT MY FAULT I was sitting at my desk and took a drink of water. If you recall what happened when Gary and I were driving to his…

  • Too Soon!

    I just saw a commercial spot for a new movie comedy: 30 Minutes or Less. Go to that site, you can see trailers for it too. From the little bit I saw, I gathered this: That one guy from The Social Network pays a pizza delivery guy.Two evildoers want to rob a bank.Instead of doing…