Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.

An actual line from an email I received this morning: As an initiative to define areas of expertise, ownership, communication, team work, reduction in redundancy, and responsibilities, we would like to develop a flow chart for all the areas of our responsibility encompassed by [insert department name here]. Unfortunately Babelfish doesn’t have an English-to-English option…

It was an early day for The Salamander. Physical Therapy started an hour earlier (7:00 am), so I had to be out of bed by 5:00, and out the door by 5:30. It’ll be a late day for the Salamander. A couple of shipments failed to come in yesterday, and I need to be around…

Well, the deed is done. Summer is truly over. I removed the dead and dying morning glory vines from the fencing today. It made me a little sad, and a lot philosophical. A few of the vines had somehow missed being killed by the idiot construction workers and by the hard frosts we had this…

who finds the Bulls-eye.com advertisement as a site sponsor just a tad offensive? Maybe it’s just because they don’t have any buff men in the ad.

I spent much of the weekend in the following do-loop: 1. Pick stuff up2. Put stuff in boxes3. Put boxes in car4. Drive car to new townhouse5. Take boxes out of car6. Take stuff out of boxes (this step is occasionally omitted)7. Put empty boxes back in car (if there are any)8. Drive car home9….

*Ding dong ding dong, Christmas bells are ringing!” Well, bells can ring, but I’m closer to wringing. What I’ll be wringing will be entirely dependent upon what is stupid enough to come close enough for me to get my hands around it. There. I got up and shut the damned thing off mid-“lovely chorus or…