Better Than a Poke in the Eye

No, I didn’t die. You know there used to be a commercial – AT&T, I think – back when I was in college. It featured all kinds of sappy, heart-string-pulling scenarios of human interaction, all made possible by the miracle of long distance phone calling. Anyways, there was one part of that comm...

I was watching “The Human Animal” on The Learning Channel the other night. If you haven’t seen this series, it is a British gentleman named Desmond Morris investigating quirky things about how humans live and interact with each other. This episode was about gestures – how people use them, and how...

Well, it looks like I better blow the cyber-dust off this diary and make an entry, before I forget how. Life has been undeniably crazy the last few weeks - working on several projects at once. This has forced me to work on weekends and late into the night every night for the last few…

As I was rifling through my pockets today looking for a receipt, I came across a folded piece of paper from a couple weeks ago. It was notes from a meeting of the "Y2K Documentation Task Force" that I sat in on. Thankfully, I am not a member of this Task Force (every time I…

(cont. from previous entry) So to see my father's handwriting on this gift was unusual. I usually only saw my father's writing on the discarded business correspondence he brought home for us to use for drawing paper - notes scribbled in the margins that to a child were inscrutable, but HAD to be ...

No, not angst today. Compared to other people's lives that I read about here, my life is ridiculously happy - the closest thing to post-Christmas angst in this household is that we can't figure out what the hell the Furbies are saying. The angst I had in mind was from many Christmases ago, when I...

Had another strange dream last night...I'm thinking hard to recall it so that I can recount it here. (Much later...) Finally got around to coming back and finishing this entry. Anyways, on to the dream. It started with me receiving a phone call informing me that I had won an award (need for valid...

Those were the first words out of my daughter's mouth last night as I came through the door. Ah, the wonders of CNN - when I got in my car to drive home, the radio was reporting that an attack was underway on Baghdad, but that the bombs and missiles hadn't even started falling yet.…

The Impeachment Thing - Look, I know everyone's tired of hearing about it. For that reason alone, I paused before starting this paragraph - I don't feel the need to add to the cacophony (what a great word) related to this subject. However, I feel pretty strongly about my opinion, so here's my two...

Again, a week (or more) has passed since I've written here. I've come onto the site many times in the interim, but it always seems like I get caught up reading someone else's diary, instead of writing in my own. One of the funny things about keeping a journal like this is that I often…