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In a meeting at work yesterday, a laptop was plugged in under the board room table. The guy whose computer it was asked a co-worker to “unplug me.” Because we are all curious minds at work, that led to a conversation about whether or not you would want the plug pulled if you were a vegetable. Everyone said they absolutely would. I, on the other hand, being of sound mind and body sometimes, and honest in my approach to those I work ...read more I smoked on and off for twenty years. I loved my cigarettes. “Merit Ultra Lite please. One carton.” I smoked a lot. Two to four packs a day. I really didn’t like those people who could join you for a cigarette when you were having drinks, and then they went home and didn’t smoke another cigarette for a week. It’s in the genes or not, and I hate that about my genes. Give me one cigarette and I’m hooked. One ...read more Hmmm. “Why would she ever go here?” Dear Whomever (is it the Pres, a Senator, or Congressperson?), Look, Canada’s health care bill is ten pages long. Literally, it’s ten pages. I have googled our new health care bill and alas, it’s thousands of pages long. And, I can’t get a straight answer to the following three simple, straight forward questions. What would it cost me to get my own health care should I choose to leave my company? Will I be able to choose ...read more You know how you get those emails telling you that if you don’t throw away all your toilet paper, you will get a rash that will never leave you? Then it turns out it is a scam from the Net and has taken off in that viral way that the Net nurtures. I got the following such email from my sister. She was forwarding it from someone who had forwarded it to her. I googled it and it does appear that ...read more My friend and I went to the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego for the weekend. Our room was on the third floor. The Del (as they call it) was built in 1888, and it has a lovely courtyard and elevators with stairs that wrap around them. My friend and I were standing at the elevator waiting for it to come, when two twenty-something bitches came trotting down the stairs from the floor above and passed us by heading down ...read more I know someone who is a triathlete. He is working toward an iron man something or other, and I helped him set up a blog. He’s hitting his stride with it, and I find myself reading it now for more than a daily update of how many miles he ran more than me that day. Some of what he says actually speaks to me. He wrote something that has been hanging out in the back of my head for the past day ...read more I’m told Extraordinary Measures got terrible reviews. I try not to read reviews before I review a movie so I’m not a copycat. I would have gone even if I’d read the bad reviews because I’m 56 and all women within a ten-year range of my age are required to go to all Harrison Ford movies. It’s written in the pact we have with each other. Same goes, by the way, for Robert Redford films. I went see see it with ...read more Yep, it’s true. There is a functioning scale used by the mental health professionals to determine your scale of functioning in society. I came across it while reading about how function is deteriorating in the world at large, and specifically with our youth. You can’t make this stuff up. Here are some of the highlights, but definitely take a moment and see if you can figure out where you stand. I figure I’m at 61 to 70 percent, which when I ...read more I’m a supportive type and like to learn about new things that people are doing, especially ones I never have any intention of attempting. One of the people in my office is a triathlonist (I stole the -ist part from violinist. If there are violinists, then a person who does triathlons could be a triathlonist right?). He mentioned he was going to do a half marathon this week, and I decided to go and watch. I must remind myself to ...read more |
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