Category: work

  • They Were Wrong: The Key to Success

    These are the keys that I have to work with. The keys that, in theory, would solve all the problems that need solving. Hoorah! This is my keychain that I…

  • Great Pun-ishment

    I once wrote about the puns that my favorite delivery driver and I engaged in.  Then I told you of a veterinary visit. Now, since absolutely nobody asked for more,…

  • A Burger For What Ails You

    Yesterday I needed something.  I did not know what.  I just knew I needed something.  A break.  Encouragement.  A little variety.  I was discouraged.  I was tired.  And I wanted…

  • Daily Prompt: What Do You Complain About Most?

    I am not a huge fan of the music that is played at work.  I hold the opinion that workplaces should stay PG-13.  I agree that freedom of speech should…

  • He Was There With Bells On

    In 1912, Seattle Times Publisher A.J. Blethen donated twelve bells to the University of Washington.  What was once a water tower became UW’s Blethen Chimes Tower.  The wooden tower was…

  • A Tale That Wants to Be Uplifting

    I have worked in an old building.  A building old enough to be an historic landmark.  And, with all things old, not every little cog and gear functions as it…

    A Tale That Wants to Be Uplifting
  • A Fund Farewell

    Oh, so that’s it? All that time and we’re done, huh? I mean, I get it. I didn’t think I had much of a shot with you back in the…

  • Good Samaritan, but Not Great

    The story of Seattle has more than a few tragic characters.  There appears to be a great overlap in the people that are homeless and the people that suffer from…

  • Caught in the Work Webb

    Last week I spent two days learning from a rocket scientist.  He gave a talk on Friday about the James Webb Space Telescope and he had a tech rehearsal earlier…

  • Housing Issues

    Allow me to share with you a silly, stupid, and pointless argument that I constantly have with myself. “I want a house.  Not a huge one.  A one-story would be…