Thursday, January 6, 2005
No good deed goes unpunished
On the way home from the chiropractor last night, I called ahead and volunteered to bring dinner home. I knew Better Half was running late, it was a cold and rainy day, and like a fool I was simply trying to do something nice. So she gave me her and Girl Genius's order. But they can never make it...
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Listening to Gonzales hearing on NPR ... and once again I'm embarrassed to
say I'm from Texas. The white male senator from the Lone Star State is arguing that the U.S. doesn't have to adhere to the Geneva Conventions and why we have to use torture to protect America from the terrorists. He also says opponents of President Bush are using Abu Ghrave for political purposes. I...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2005
My neighbor said she could tell her son had sex ...
by the way he was acting. No shit? Yes, Better Half said. She said she woke up one day and could tell he was different. So she asked him, and he admitted he let a girl go down on him. That's not sex, I said. I heard on good authority that high school and college girls don't equate giving blow jobs...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Work 16 hours and what do you get? Another day older & deeper in debt.
Meeting with the headhunter this week, and I've thought about the three questions he wanted me to answer. What I can do better than almost anyone I know? Work under deadline pressure. Give me a drop-dead, has-to-be-done, no bullshit deadline, and I'll come through every time. Just something I've...
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Monday, January 3, 2005
Road Trip – With no address or directions, we head toward Austin
ignoring flash flood warnings. For several miles, as we headed down I35, I could barely make out tail lights in front of me. Should have changed the wiper blades. Kris had to be Austin Monday to take his state cosmetology license test, so after painting the formal dining room, we loaded the minivan...
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Saturday, January 1, 2005
Starting a project with a hangover
Bought a great new painting device today at Lowe's. It's a roller with a long pump that sucks up the paint and then squeezes it out while you roll the brush against the wall. I started modestly, just one can of paint, one small brush, one smaller roller, blue masking tape and a plastic drop cloth....
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Surveying the Damage - Reminders of 2004. The kitchen table is covered
with rolls, a half-eaten spiral cut ham, and a pan of home-made enchiladas. The countertop is covered with liquor bottles: crown royal, 1800, two bottles of vanilla rum, a Hot Damn bottle of cherry schnapps, cuervo, four bottles of wine, a pot of coffee and... a flask of everclear? Where did that...
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Thursday, December 30, 2004
Does a car make the man, and who's behind the 2-way mirror?
Better Half and I are sitting in the insurance agency's settlement office, and we noticed the 2-way mirror while the adjuster went upstairs to gather our paperwork. BH had gone with me tto make sure I didn't lose my temper, but it wouldn't have made a difference if I had. I pointed to the glass and...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004
How low can she go? We'd left Deadbeat Gene Daughter a message
that my folks had left her a Christmas card with cash, and were surprised when she didn't called back right away. She'd walk through hell for $20. Turns out she never received the message. That's what happens when you don't have a phone and you're 8 months pregnant and your Loser Boyfriend is on...
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Bah-humbug rant: Have you no shame?
At exactly 6:30 a.m. Christmas Day, the phone started ringing. My first thought was there was an emergency. Why the hell else would anyone be calling that early? With visions of sugra plums dancing in my head, I answered the phone, still asleep. It was Deadbeat Gene Daughter, wanting me to pick her...
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