Single-handedly solving nothing
A catch-all for my random silly, funny, and/or thoughtful posts about life and the crazy world around us. I try not to rant or insult. If I make you smile or contemplate, I’ll consider it a success.
That there above? That’s my new sticker collection. I just started it in November and already I have seven stickers. Seven dull, rather unimaginative, digital stickers, though I must admit the pseudo-teardrop of the Microsoft stickers is at least pretending to try. Hey, it’s better than IBM’s square! Although, come to think of it, a … Read more
Six months ago, to the very day, I went cold turkey. I gave up candy, as in crush. I closed the app on my tablet one final time and haven’t opened it since. A not so easy, or assured, thing, that. As with most newly abandoned bad habits, I was reluctant to boast about this … Read more
Perhaps the dumbest thing I ever said, and there have been many (even after discounting the plethora made with the intent of impressing females), slipped from my lips during the fall of 1990. It went something like this, “I don’t care what I do, just as long as I’m not stuck in front of a … Read more
Twenty-five years ago, I embarked on an eight-month adventure that would define my adult life. It was not intended to. In fact, at the time it was more lark than prescience. Okay, maybe lark isn’t the fairest description, but academic value and eyes to my future were certainly not priorities when I chose to spend … Read more
The other day, as I wasted a few more hours of my aimless life plodding through monotonous Candy Crush levels, the voice on the radio caught my attention by mentioning that next year marks the 25th anniversary of Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill. Upon hearing this factoid, my mind blurted an invective lamenting yet further … Read more