…Of Course, this Could All Go Horribly Awry

Category: work

  • They Have Been Disarmed

    I am celebrating, but I feel bad about it. Not that long ago, a gun store opened in my neighborhood.  I really, really, hate guns.  We could talk about constitutional…

    They Have Been Disarmed

  • Free Money Costs Too Much

    Someone is trying to give me money. I sent them a letter of rejection. I worked for a company. I do not anymore. What I am told by a letter…

    Free Money Costs Too Much

  • I Will Not Phone It In

    Not so long ago I was at the bus stop. There were seventeen of us. The other sixteen were all intently focused on their phones. I cannot. I will not.…

    I Will Not Phone It In

  • What He Said

    Amen, brother. Amen.

    What He Said

  • Party of your Peers Pressure

    Work parties feel like work. I am a morning person, an introvert, and I do not drink.  When coworkers talk about going out after their shifts, I check out of…

  • Trying Out: Timeleft

    I did not wait for New Year’s to try something different. I tackled it in November and found that it was not for me. Friendships have gotten harder to achieve. …

  • Sugar Fix(-es All?)

    Yesterday was not my day. The bus pulled away as I arrived at the stop. The woman who pulled into the intersection I was walking through. The windy, rainy, non-sunny…

  • “Anti” Begins and Ends With A.I.

    Welcome to an A.I.-free zone.  In case you had not already guessed, every word you see on this site is created by human intelligence.  The only A.I. allowed here are…

  • The (Net)Fix is In

    Okay, it has been a week. So let us talk about the Netflix buying WB deal. For $82.7 billion, Netflix would own all of Warner Bros. that matters. The movies,…

  • Mind Over Menial Matters

    I do not believe that having superpowers would make us as naturally heroic as we like to think.  It would only perpetuate the practices that we have already inured ourselves…