Category Archives: Journal
A public service announcement
December 30, 2008 – 2:36 am
Yelling “I want to talk to a person” over and over at United Airlines’ automated help line does, in fact, get you a person.
Steve points out that sometimes it pays to think like the elderly.
December 11, 2008 – 10:37 pm
Steve and I subscribe to a local vegetable service, which I love. Every Thursday is now Produce Christmas. Will I get the onions I hoped for? Will there be another weird variety of radish that doesn’t go with anything I cook? Of course, the winter months can get a little monotonous (There is a legion [...]
two is the lowest number
November 26, 2008 – 2:59 am
On the way home from work today I saw the first digit in the price of regular gas was a “1″. I assumed the sign was broken until seeing the price really was 1.99 a gallon at another Citgo down the road.
My initial, cynical judgement on the rapidly dropping oil prices was that this was [...]
Magazines for Babies and Toddlers
October 21, 2008 – 3:36 pm
That is the subject line of an email I just got from amazon.com. I am now having daydreams about magazines with headlines like “How to Poop Yourself and Look Like You’re Smiling” and “He said he had my nose: true stories of deception”.
Oh baby.
July 31, 2008 – 2:50 am
Steve and I were excited to welcome our niece, Riley Jude, into the world this Monday.
In a move that can only be described as FAIL, we did not bring a camera. Ergo, here is a picture of a baby carrot. Mama Jen looked lovely, and Papa Craig looked awestruck. Riley is seriously cute. Uncle Steve [...]
No way.
July 27, 2008 – 12:00 pm
It’s been a year. Hard to believe. You’ll have to ask Steve, but with fifty percent of precincts reporting, the consensus is that being married is awesome. We are very happy, and one of the greatest things is to look back on our wedding day and recall how loved we felt by all of our [...]
I have also dialed a rotary phone.
July 25, 2008 – 11:17 pm
Today, my TA at school, a recent high school grad, asked me what people listened to before mp3 players.
“Disc men,” I replied. “But you couldn’t walk too fast, or run with them really. You sort of had to sit with them, holding on with both hands.”
“Oh. Did you ever make a mix tape?”
This [...]
Spore prints
July 9, 2008 – 9:57 pm
A few years ago, Steve and I saw some mushroom spore prints by Dan Peterman, I think at the MCA. Or the Smart. One of those places with the things on the walls.
We were taken aback by the ghostly, ink-blot qualities they had. Now that this post shows how easy they are [...]
