An executive order from the President turned Christmas Eve into a paid holiday for federal employees this year. This is usually the case in years when Christmas falls on a Tuesday. I’ve no qualms with an extra paid holiday. This little bit of generosity from the White House, however, has absolutely no chance of influencing […]
The work I had back in July achieved the desired result. Quite a relief. The wife says I was way too excited after the doctor’s office called this afternoon. Personally, I think throwing ones arms into the air and shouting “YATTA!” Hiro Nakamura style is a perfectly valid reaction to this news. Life rolls on […]
I got TWO smiles out of Catherine today…not a bad deal at all; and well worth typing about, despite having six useful fingers and an immobile right wrist! We also crossed the bottle barrier today…I kept the kid while Colleen taught Sunday school this morning, packing some defrosted pumped stuff, just in case. She slept […]
Weirdness in the local men’s restroom at the office today: six shiny pennies arranged in a perfect circular pattern with a radius of about one inch around the flush-pipe apparatus of one of the urinals. well-to-do hobo signs? New symbols of the Larry Craig variety? An 18 inch high monolith constructed of wet ass-gaskets and […]
As I type this, the bathroom floor is being installed. Finally. [EDIT]: It Is Done. The Saga of the Floor is Over. on an entirely unrelated note… …In a recent Business Week interview, in answer to a question about her post-Bush Administration plans, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responded: “I don’t know what I’ll do […]
