Archive for the 'Aggravations, Peeves' Category



a busy month is in store? Can I go hide now?

Published on November 1, 2007

Egad, it’s NaBloPoMo again!  Who’da thunk it???  How time flies from one November to the next.  The bigger question is — am I up to it?  a post every day for a month??   There’s so many issues here firmly against my success.  I have that pesky “day job” that unreasonably takes up so much of my […]


Columbus Day?????

Published on October 8, 2007

Hey, everyone!!  Did you remember about Columbus Day?  1492?  Ocean Blue?  Three little ships — all that shit we had to learn in grade school?   Anybody???? Can you tell I had 400 people call me, fussing that no one was answering their calls, bitching and snorting about it, and 400 times, I sweetly said, “Did […]


Worldwide Publicity

Published on September 17, 2007

Everybody in the modern world, or at least everyone with television or internet access, has heard of the ongoing case of a missing child in Portugal.  Per the news media, the parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, British citizens and both medical doctors, were vacationing in Portugal in May of this year with their 3 children, this missing child […]