Reaction to Random Catalysts

My supervisor at work encourages we regulars to note the temporaries who are working with us, to assess how they approach the work, and to recommend the ones that stand out to us. Yesterday, such a man stood out to me. He was always promptly back to work--to put many of the regulars to shame, to say... Sign in to see full entry.

Given my eclectic tastes, I watch a lot more old movies than most people. In doing so, I observe that the older movies--the ones in the early 1970s and before--scrolled all its credits at the beginning. The only thing to appear at the end were the words: The End. But since the mid-seventies, movies... Sign in to see full entry.

A friend's photo I saw on Facebook was described as the northwestern-most cliff in the 48 contiguous states. A good question came to my mind: was he referring to Neah Bay on the far corner of the Olympic peninsula or Pt. Roberts that is so isolated in the corner of Washington state that people often... Sign in to see full entry.

Tweet, tweet. I never thought I would. A computer technician friend suggested I enlarge my social network book publicity outreach by creating a designated page on Facebook and... going on Twitter. I asked him to describe the difference between Facebook and Twitter, and he told me Facebook is an... Sign in to see full entry.

With a heavy burden, a friend reached out and sought for my encouragement. He told me that under his trying circumstance, the pressure to retreat into isolation is tremendous. He contacted me, because he trusted that I would listen sincerely to him and help take off some of the pressure of his... Sign in to see full entry.

My latest necessity of having to take Ibuprofen and lack of ill effects further confirms to me the great and natural healing power of aloe vera juice. Having had an ulcer a little over decade ago, I have tried to stay clear of Ibuprofen if at all possible. (I avoid aspirin altogether.) I conclude... Sign in to see full entry.

Try using a marker at work, and you're likely to witness a dry rubbing, no pronounced mark. Too often at work, people leave the felt tip exposed--i.e. cap off, or marker not retracted. This dries it out fast. Please, people, do not be so careless and inattentive when using a marker. Sign in to see full entry.

Not a misspelled word. Not a reversal of letters. But the omission of a negative is the type of typo that slips by me, unless I reread my writing with a cognizant attention. I am talking about the type of typo that spell check will not detect. An example of such was a comment reply I made in a... Sign in to see full entry.

As last work week proceeded, I noticed my post-operative incision becoming more of a bulge. It seemed that an ordeal of unwisely working on a hectic packaging line had taken its toll on me. I wanted badly to come around finally to today's followup examination, if only to know with certainty the bad... Sign in to see full entry.

During the after-service refreshments time at my struggling church, a lady parishioner asked me, "So what do you think of the N_____'s taking over the church?" That question put me at an awkward posture, because it already presupposes that the N____'s are taking over the church. I did not see the... Sign in to see full entry.