What I’ve Read: American Lightning

Long flights and vacations are great for reading books, or listening to them, depending on how you travel. After finishing the Jacobs book, I dove right in and conquered another in no time. These historical narrative nonfiction books are just cool. I really like reading them. They are a growing...

Maui: The Economics

When we first landed and got over to the beach, it was late and dark. The next day was a Friday, so I wrote it off that we got here before the weekend truly began.It's now Sunday afternoon and one thing is for sure: The recession is definitely noticeable here....

What I’ve Read: The Year of Living Biblically

Reading a book about a guy who decides to live a — literally — biblical life for one year doesn't exactly sound like the kind of reading material one would think I would get into. But when this book is written by AJ Jacobs, you can count me in. You...

Maui: Day 1

So we certainly accomplished a few things on our first day here. Took care of good food (ate at Mama's FIsh House, a swanky nice place along the northern coast). Scored a solid opening-trip breakfast at our favorite breakfast spot in Lahaina. Got in some solid pool time at the...

24 Hours Later … Peace

Thursday/Friday was a long day. You may not care, because the end result was me waking up this morning to the sound of waves crashing into the beaches here in Kaanapali, Maui, but suck it, it's my blog and I write what I want.It all started by waking up at...

My Paper Challenge: Results

Yeah, so I am a couple months' late turning in this report. If you missed out, you can read up what this project was all about here. But put simply, I saved an entire month's worth of paper that could be recycled so that I could see how much of...

Writer Fight

I've only read a few Stephen King novels. It made me frightened of clowns (still true), and some of the others are equally scary, though I kinda gave him up once I left high school. Just wasn't feeling the magic. Kelly still digs on his work, and reads a bunch...

My Flirtation With Fascism

As a graphic designer, I have to usually submit several options in my design for the big whigs to choose from. I'll throw in my bets bets, but also some ones I really hate, because often putting in lackluster work helps push people in the direction you want. Sorry if...

Extras From The Office

As seems to be a recurring theme, I like to pass along the deleted clips from the previous episodes of The Office. They usually have 3 or 4 per episode, but I am only including the ones I particularly enjoyed.

Super (Animal) Bowl

Holy crap, beyond the fact that after three boring-ass quarters, the Super Bowl actually got good. I thought the whole night was going to be spent hating on Sheri because she dared cheer on the Steelers when most of the people in the room were Bengals fans (foolish girl). Other...

Some Positivity, For Once … Apparently

So Kristin tells me that while she enjoys my blog very much, apparently all I do is bitch about stuff. Well, I will do my best to throw in some positivity, if only to get her off my back. Her life is all roses ... well ... except for her...

A Snow/Ice Rebuttal, If You Please

For those outside the DC area, you need to know that our fair leader of the free world caused a bit of stir when he announced yesterday that DC, as Kelly put it, full of snow pansies. This is because the entire city and region halted to a standstill when...