Archive for January 2010

Changing tactics for the week to come

I am coming out of the gates a caffeine fuelled full on pain in the nuts to my enemies. No more pussy footing (I really hope that has something to do with the delicate way that cats walk rather than the horrifying slang female anatomy reference alternative) around the fact that I do in fact [...]

deal done

I left work a little early yesterday but I didn’t feel guilty because I’ve been doing a lot of night and weekend work in an effort to save my job. I grabbed my eldest daughter and we headed to Niles to buy a car from the Costco Auto Program. We were supposed to go down [...]

Buying a car blows cactus

Grandpa stepped up to the plate and is buying Katie a car but guess who gets to step into the arena and do battle? That’s right, I am in the middle of my second hour at the second dealership and things are swinging my way. I started this whole process more than five hours ago [...]

I am an overload of multimedia

I just finished simultaneously reading and listening to the audio book of Stephen King’s Under the Dome and like most good books I want more story. But why read and listen to the book at the same time? Because I can’t read and drive that’s why. So why not just listen? Enough with the questions [...]

super ginormous bag

I was picking up the triple extra large computer bag that Big Boy sleeps in and made myself laugh. Then I remembered that I owed you all some photographic evidence of its enormity. As a freakishly large human you might think that this bag would look normal sized next to me but that is not [...]