In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin
In our present society, one might almost think that this famous quote by one of my favorite founding fathers could be reworded to replace “death” with “debt”. It is staggering how in such a relatively short amount of time, we have managed to rearrange [...]
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This post is going up for all you who suffer from not knowing exactly what on earth all the hubbub about Seattle and my work has been over the last few days. My Twitter (and thus Facebook) statuses (or is it stati?) have been positively lousy with comments regarding the whole “crisis” (for lack [...]
New Year’s Day…now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. – Mark Twain
Well 2009 is off to a fantastic start. Yesterday was dull. Today is duller (if that were even possible). I was going to go to [...]
It’s that time of year again… Time for cookies, trees, gifts, snow (if you’re lucky), songs, mistletoe, ornaments, lights, and joy at celebrating the birth of Jesus. It’s also time for yearly updates. Every year I receive tons of letters from my friends telling me all about the seemingly endless amounts of awesome things their [...]
It’s 12:45 on a Monday night and I’m wide awake. I brought this on myself. The lure of coffee was too much for me to resist, although I knew it was past 6pm. I should’ve have abstained so I could sleep… But I didn’t – or rather, I couldn’t. Coffee & I are way too [...]
