Scenes from a Halloween party

Woman dressed as Hunter S. Thompson: Why didn’t you come in costume?
Me: How do you know I’m not?
WDAHST: (Silently observes my attire)
Me: I’m drinking keg Bud Lite from a plastic cup watching grown men and women do shots off a huge block of carved ice. Clearly, I’m dressed as a straight guy.
WDAHST: (Laughing) Of course! [...]

Holy freakin’ God

I just looked at my IRA statement for the first time since this financial debacle started. Head in the sand? Perhaps. But after viewing it, I think I’m putting my head right back in the sand. More than one-third of what I’ve been saving for the past 14 years has vanished. Whoosh.
Thank heavens I wouldn’t [...]

The one I wanted most

Sometimes, there’s a reason you don’t get the things you think you want—or rather, the things you think you’d be willing to settle for. And if I’ve learned anything in the past 38 years, it should be this: never settle.
Luckily, the universe has made sure that I didn’t. Or maybe I did. Or maybe it [...]

The value of practice

I was listening to a segment of To the Best of Our Knowledge called “Facing the Rest of Your Life,” about when getting older hits you and how you react to it. Specifically, a portion of the program was about guitarist Glenn Kurtz who was a bit of a prodigy as a child and destined [...]

Random useless observation

When the cars with the booming bass (dba The Cars That Go Boom) drive through the neighborhood, if they’re far enough away that I can’t make out any lyrics or distinct instruments, they sound a lot like the warp core of the starship Enterprise.
Welcome to my geeky yet still somewhat ghetto world.

Darn tootin’

 “Are we not doin’ the talent portion?”