The Real World. And it has AC/DC in it

And here I thought I was done.

I wrote that last post, linked to Georgia, and then read the comments to that post. At the bottom is a woman named Erin. Her comment was right after mine, so I clicked through to her blog, and read the most fantastic story. In 5 parts.

So, to end the year’s blogging how I really like to, it’ll be with a blog referral.

Go read: Is this it? Erin’s Adventures in the Real World.

Here’s a link to the 5 part story. This comes up as Chapter 5. But that post has links to the other four. Start at the beginning.

UPDATE: a couple minutes later: reading through the main page, she’s up to about chapter 11. Still, start at the beginning.

A Good Start

The new year, wow, it’s gonna be a doozy.

We have an economy in meltdown. Consumer confidence approaching the I’m-sure-life-is-just-one-big-Ponzi-scheme levels. Hot wars in Iraq and in the Middle East. Pakistani and Indian troops both massing at the border. A Chicago governer selling a Senate seat. A guy stealing $50 billion. A new, completely inexperienced President (although he has, I’m forced to admit, made some pretty decent choices for Cabinet positions). Companies laying off people by the tens of thousands.

And yet in all this, we also have new love, and a pregnancy.

So really, I think it’s going to be a fan-dab-tastic year.

Or an outright disaster. One of the two.

But just for tonight: Happy New Year!

We can start worrying again tomorrow.

Paean to Jane

Dear Contact Lens,

Please stop popping out of my eye. It’s embarrassing when it happens during meetings, and it’s really uncomfortable when I put it back in.

Remember, I have glasses waiting in the wings that would just love your job.

Hank

But She’s Such a Nice Book Thief

Finding new blogs for you just in time for my year-end wrap up.

Adventures of a Book Thief

Even if she is a Lakers’ fan.

You know what I really love about the site? The graphic. Nice, appealing, but especially that it’s really simple and clean. Flowing line, nice colors, and a bird.

What that has to do with being a book thief I have no idea. Maybe one day LAB (which I’m assuming are initials) will tell us.

Hello? Anyone here?

Wow, it’s been so long I almost forgot my password to the WordPress site.

I’m still swamped, mind you. Just right now, though, there’s a break in the clouds, which I’m sure is just the eye of the storm.

I’m convinced that Green tea is someone’s idea of a joke. It’s all gonna come out sooner or later. Someone said, “let’s see if we can’t get people to drink something that looks exactly like human urine. I know, let’s make up a totally fake health benefit. I know! Zero-oxidation. No. Anti-oxidation. Not quite…anti-oxidants! Yes! It has 165 mg of antioxidants. Now drink your piss.”

I’m sure that’s exactly what happened.

I say, as I sit here drinking it.

Why is the new season of Entourage not on iTunes? It’s practically over, the new season, and nada. That pisses me off.

I feel lucky to have a job. Even one that keeps me working 14 hours a day.