Black Friday “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of…
Archives for 2004
Bye Bye Blogger?
Apparently Blogger’s having problems posting to my site. It ate my index page for Thanksgiving.
Hating Blogger
I’m switching to WordPress or TextPress this weekend. I can’t handle Blogger crapping out on me anymore. Note that at this time..my homepage is half missing.
Thanksgiving 2004
Thankful This morning, as I continued to coax my turkey into the land of the defrosted, I took a look back at what I wrote last year on Thanksgiving so darned if I’m going to write it out again. 😉…
Budget (not ab) crunches
I crunched so hard on my budget yesterday that my brain’s just fried today. The big weekly meeting was cancelled as well, which leaves a 4 hour gap of totally free time. (Two hours for the meeting, two to get…
Dollars and sense?
Dollars and sense? If there is one aspect of my “Junior Executive Management Barbie” job that I hate the most, it’s creating the budget for the 1st half / 2nd half of the year. I’m required to be rational and…
Nanowrimo Tumble Dry update
Update: My novel, Tumble Dry is now at 30,355 words. To finish by midnight on 11/30, I need to write 2455 words a day. I’m going to shoot for 2500 – 3000 since I want to cushion a bit to…
Paperback writer
Paperback writer Yeesh…that cold was tough. It seems like the older I get, the fewer times I get sick, but the harder I get hit by those colds. I stayed home from work on Friday as well, making me double-paranoid…
Slacker
Slacker Home sick today. Usually, I’d feel guilty, but the last sick day I took (according to my blog) was in August, and April before that. That’s the good thing about having a blog. I can look these things up!…
Apologies
Apologies Dear Blog: I’m very sorry I haven’t written in you like I should have. See, back in October, I signed up to participate in National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to get 50,000 words of fiction written in…
Ring a ding ding, baby
Ring a ding ding, babyWhile I was at Target a few nights ago picking up the cat food and other sundries, I came across a Frank Sinatra Christmas CD. I’m a big Frank fan, but as soon as I saw…
Musing
Musing I’d love for a president to adopt a dog from a shelter rather than buy one from a breeder. Plus, pets should NOT be given as gifts. Even though I highly doubt Mrs. Bush will be the one actually…