Oddball Update

The last few days have been quite hellish in these parts (heck, the entire summer has been hellish), so I’ve been pretty much cooped up inside my air conditioned house for the past week or so. (…)

It’s 2:42 a.m. and I’m sitting at the computer. What a dumbass. (…)

So I was up late on a recent evening occasion, and although there are far more weighty things with which I could be occupying my brain, I settled instead on the topic of long-forgotten grocery goodies that I once enjoyed as a kid. (…)

Since I frequently seem to utilize this space for rambling about a series of unrelated topics, I figured it might be a good idea to standardize the titles of such updates so they are easier to pick out of a lineup — specifically, my Archives page, where the only hint you get as to whether a post is of any interest to you is its title. (…)

Why name an entry after an Amboy Dukes song? Because I wanted to post about some of the random stuff I was thinking, and that song popped into my head. It tends to just do that. (…)

No, that’s not the latest ridiculous task I’ve been saddled with by a client or anything like that. (…)

Recreation: It’s Better Than Oxygen.™ Sure, you won’t asphyxiate if you don’t perform some recreational activity every few seconds, but partaking in such activities sure has a way of revitalizing you like nothing else. (…)

You can thank Pooch for the idea for this one.

Please excuse me for this, but I happened across something this evening that reminded me of an age-old inside joke (that only my friends will get), and promptly wasted half an hour assembling this ridiculous comic of sorts in honor of it. (…)

Sorry…I seem to have taken a few days “off.” You’re meant to envision me making air quotes when you read the word “off,” because this weekend I was certainly anything but “off.” Unless you count “off my rocker,” which is where I just about ended up going after working 24 solid hours in two days, 16 of which were on Saturday alone…after lunch. (…)