Nov 23, 2020Tea timeI need to drink something at night when I’m not drinking beer. Otherwise, what am I going to do, just sit there and look at my empty hands? The go-to for the nights when I’m not drinking beer, whether it is for a night or two, or a month or…Tea3 min readTea3 min read
Nov 22, 2020Young and DumbThe first time I got drunk was at a high school party the fall of my senior year. A late bloomer. It was either three beers and two wine coolers, or two beers and three wine coolers. I was off the goddamn wall, it’s a good thing that all the…Drinking4 min readDrinking4 min read
Jul 12, 2020Slap Fights and New Friends“He thinks just because I’m a skinny guy that he can push me around and get in a fight with me,” the bike guy said. This wasn’t the way I had planned on getting friendly with bike guy, if, in fact, I had any plans to become friendly with him…Slap Fight6 min readSlap Fight6 min read
Mar 27, 2020A Day in the Coronavirus Life of the Angry NeighborIf there is one thing the current quarantine situation is going to leave us with, aside from the obvious disasters, is a glut of personal blogs, memoirs, and remembrances of the plague time. And those could very well be coming from me at some point. Lord knows none of us…Coronavirus7 min readCoronavirus7 min read
Feb 3, 2020Walk, Don’t ScrollThis is not a complaint about my job. It’s about my office; the actual physical space in which I am consigned to do my job. My office has no windows. …Walking4 min readWalking4 min read
Jan 27, 2020Longtime, Last TimeI’ve gone over a year without listening to sports talk radio, outside the occasional game broadcast. This might seem like a fairly trivial admission, given I’m a moderate sports fan at best these days, and that listening to sports radio is a fairly harmless past time. …Sports Radio4 min readSports Radio4 min read
Jan 22, 2020Let’s See If I Make It Out Of JanuaryI love buying calendars and planners, even if I almost never get a full year’s use out of them. Some time around February I’ll leave it at home, or start bringing a different bag to work, forgetting to stash the latest planner in it. In March, I may decide to…Planner5 min readPlanner5 min read
Jan 9, 2020This Is Not A ResolutionI didn’t wake up on New Year’s Day intending to make any resolutions. The only times I’ve ever made resolutions, they have been made under duress and never kept for more than a month, maybe two, tops. And then my phone told me I was obese. It wasn’t quite as…Productivity4 min readProductivity4 min read
