Soup Season Is Over
Like most adults, my life basically revolves around calendars. I have many of these I need to follow with varying degrees of importance. At the top of the heap sits the calendar on the side of the refrigerator. That carries […]
Book Review: My Life as an Experiment
Don’t you hate when you read something and immediately think, “Why didn’t I do that first?” That’s kind of how I felt after finishing A.J. Jacobs’ book “My Life as an Experiment.” Of course there is the factor that I […]
Navigating Like It’s 1981
I had to take a different route than usual home from work the other day. I had an event to attend in downtown Baltimore so it just made sense at the time. Luckily, I left before the real bad part […]
Roderick Does Indeed Rule
I had to wait a little while before posting my review of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules” because I didn’t want to dwell too much on the outrageously annoying parent who inflicted her 3-year-old on the theater because […]
ITEOTWAWKI: Stop Thinking So Hard
I have thought about posting a review of R.E.M.’s new album “Collapse Into Now” a bunch of times since its release in early March. Lord knows I have listened to the album a bunch of times. The problem is, I […]
Opening Day Musings
Once upon a time, I worshiped this day. My parents would get me out of school on Opening Day so I could head down to 33rd Street – just a few blocks from my current office – and watch the […]
Coffee Panic
I thought I had planned everything perfectly. I scheduled two days off for the beginning of March Madness and the NCAA wrestling tournament. If I went into work on those days, I would have no motivation so I figured I […]
It Was Madness
I took off last Thursday and Friday to watch the first two days of March Madness along with the NCAA wrestling tournament. That’s why blogging has been light. Oh, and because I’m a master procrastinator. A few tidbits from my […]
Packaging Our Secrets
The way things go these days, we hear a lot about national security and how we have to protect the secrets which keep us safe. I don’t really believe in conspiracy theories or anything. I think the government puts the […]
March Madness Kills Wrestling Team
Like many other right-thinking Americans, I will fill out brackets and watch the March Madness action with great interest, Few things bring people together like the chance to win money based on the results of basketball teams they have never […]