After thirteen years of driving, I have received 1 (one) ticket. Yesterday, that number was 0 (zero). I’m still deciding whether to contest the ticket or not. I allegedly missed a no-U-turn sign before making such a turn. Where I…
Tag: A Day in the Life
They’re Taunting Me
This would be a good week for me to be living almost anywhere I used to live. Here’s the Mariners’ schedule starting later this week: Fri, 2 April: vs. Colorado @ Albuquerque Sat, 3 April: vs. Colorado @ Albuquerque Sun,…
Winning and Losing
Things are a lot better than they were Friday and even better than they were before. And while I can attribute a lot of that to the passage of time or mental adjustments or even a variety of positive events…
The Case for Today
So I’m having a pretty rotten time of things generally, for a host of reasons I don’t have time to discuss. Feeling pretty debilitated overall, spiraling downward, and so on. Nothing at a panic-level, but perhaps arcing toward reasons for…
Losing
I’m someone who is fairly accustomed to winning things. Debate rounds, scholarships, jobs, contests. Not NCAA March Madness pools, perhaps, but a lot of other things. Late yesterday, it was announced that I will not be winning the Amazon Breakthrough…
A Fresh Start
I don’t want to talk about healthcare today. Not much, anyway. It’s weird to be in a maelstrom of euphoria that seems so unwarranted and unfounded, touched with a counterpoint of ludicrosity almost as bizarre. It’s a little like the…
I Want to Live in a Tall Building
This post has been over sixteen months in the making. Yesterday we spent most of the day at Ariel & Michael’s, hanging out with banter, books, and Boggle. It was exactly the kind of day we’d hoped to have when…
Why I Don’t Believe in Representative Government
Forty-seven million Americans are without health insurance. Why? Because they can’t afford it. And what’s Washington’s solution? Require people to buy private insurance with the government providing a subsidy to the health insurance companies. What a pathetic state of affairs…
Become a BP Fan on Facebook!
Despite my concerns with Facebook’s impact on blogging, the time has come for me to recognize that the train is leaving the station and I might as well get on board… The Blue Pyramid on Facebook Click the above to…
Man vs. Machine
There’s something very weird about expecting turnkey results from technology and having it back out on you. Back in 1995, my high school friends and I saw “The Net” when it first came out. The internet was just a vague…