Alli: The phenomenon you refer to is called GAPO. It won’t work if you put the book under your pillow. If you put the book under your pillow, then all the facts related to that book get sucked out of your head and into the book. What you need to do is open the book,…
No one has yet made their move. I don’t know if that means they are reconsidering the rash actions they’ve been contemplating, or if the universe is just being perverse and waiting until my guard is down before it strikes. My two little bird compatriots that I thought axed apparently haven’t been, although I was…
Another day, another can of worms for this bird. This is definitely not my idea of a balanced, steady diet. I got some information yesterday on one of the situations that had developed between my company and a veterinarian we call in to do outside work. Frankly, the field report read as though he’d made…
To continue Friday’s analogy: The branch has fallen. The birds thus dislodged from the tree have flown off in search of other perches. My branch remains secure, with a better view of the sky. The better view of the sky means that the hawks circling above get a better look at me. In a continuing…
Unexpected, this. In flux things are. From the highest level change comes. And like any situation where a boulder is dropped from the highest level, it’s the people on the lower levels that have a tendency to be squooshed. My job description will be changing. I don’t know to what, though. That, apparently, is still…
This morning [insert word appropriate for polite company that means “sucked” here]. We got our predicted four to five inches of powdery snow overnight. It was the kind of wispy stuff that you shovel with a broom. The problem is, as fast as you swept it away, the winds blew more in. In fact, it…
Waiter, there’s a condom in my soup January 15, 2004 Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/14/1073877897143.html Upmarket US restaurant chain McCormick & Schmick’s has, according to this story, settled a lawsuit by a woman who claimed she suffered severe physical and emotional distress when she found a rolled-up condom in her soup, on the day the trial…
The weather forecast calls for four to six inches of snow in my area this evening. I’m told that the storm’s edge is now at the state capital, putting it about one hundred miles from here. I’m patient. I’m in no rush to be hit with accumulating snow and lows in the single digits (they’re…
I made an eBay purchase on December 23rd. I made a rare exception to my ordinarily hard-and-fast rule of never to buy from anyone with any bad feedback, and purchased from someone who’d had problems historically but seemed to be doing OK now. I’m a realist, and I know there are some psycho-nut cases out…
I was in a rush, heading from my office to a side door in the main building that opened to a room full of work waiting for me to attend to. There’s been a lot of construction going on in this section of the building, and the workers had just today dumped a couple of…