Self-Therapy —
Travelling through airports and subways over the past year or so has given me exposure to a new state of people’s time and behavior. I like to call that state “isolated public idleness”. Its that state that people are in while waiting for a plane or standing around for a train. Its […]
I should’ve known that the cord was too short to reach around my new desk and into my PC. I stretched it anyway and sacrificed a little bit of postural luxury for my favorite headphones. But that one fateful night when I forgot they were around my neck, it only took one swing […]
There’s nothing like a power outage to expose just how much we take things for granted; its even worse when it’s a daytime power outage because there is no darkness to constantly remind you that the power is out. At about 2:30pm today, Bucks County, Pa. experienced a power outage. As soon as […]
I’m finally learning to read. Not reading literally, but reading as an activity. High school tried to do it, college tried to do it, but none of them could get me to crack open a book for entertainment or recreation.
What finally did it? A simple recommendation from my sister combined with short flights between Philly […]
It appears that I wrote my summary of Austin hastily. I was proven wrong; not by facts, not by the unfolding of poorly predicted happenings, but by relativity.
I wrote that the traffic in Austin was bad. Now I will defend myself by saying that this is true; traffic in Austin is worse than the traffic […]
Since I totally recovered from my lost wallet, I had the time to focus on other parts of my life. I was able to concentrate on my new job and getting prepared for the legwork involved.
Ilamor decided to take me out to dinner at Villa Barolo in Warrington, Pa. The food is pretty good and the […]
At around 10:30pm today, I was passing by the table near our doorway and I realized that the tabletop looked somewhat empty. This is where I trained myself to keep all of my important stuff. So I started counting my belongings. The Big 5…car keys, check. Blackberry, check. Cell phone, check. ID badge for work, […]
When I started working in a team environment I realized that every decision a person makes has a cascading or rippling effect on the people around them, especially when the decision has to do with scheduling. Since then I have been very mindful of people’s schedules and have made sure that they have been mindful […]
There was a time when I thought that I was pretty good at predicting results in the world of professional sports. I had a few successful sports predictions in the past that lured me into a false trust of my intuition. But over time I became fairly consistent in my wrongness, with sports […]
This will be the first of many in the “So I Was Wrong” series, where I shamelessly admit to being wrong and make petty excuses to defend myself.
A short while ago I wrote at article over at funksysteme.org about the problems with the James Bond series of movies. The article was called James Bond […]
We recently had some self-invited visitors at the Wellington Estate. If you can read this, trust me, I’m not talking about you. A small family of black cats took up residence under our shed. At one point there were four cats, one mother and three kids. This begs the question, where […]
Being open-minded and accepting is a great thing. Simply because I don’t like something doesn’t mean no one else is allowed to like that thing. People are free to enjoy whatever makes them happy with very few exceptions. I like to think that I am open minded and accepting of other people’s […]