In the past few years, Emily and I have never quite managed to get our taxes paid in full via check withholding. For a long time, the culprit was the division of her paycheck into two sources of income –…
Tag: A Day in the Life
Zimmy Wins First BP March Madness Challenge
Congratulations go to Adam “Zimmy” Zimmerman, the grand prize winner of this year’s first-ever Blue Pyramid University Quiz March Madness Challenge. Zimmy wins an Amazon gift certificate and the adulation of hoops bracketeers everywhere. Zim-Zim the Mayonnaise Man News of…
Things I Learned in Court Today
I got to court about a minute late today, the penalty for which was having to listen to every single other case in the room be heard before mine. While this initially struck me as quite a chore, I’m ultimately…
Kid in a Candy Store
Today is a little like Christmas, or my birthday before I got old, or going to Disneyland, or going to see a Mariners game. Today I get to tab a tournament. For those outside the debate world, “tabbing” is the…
Ten Years Gone
It’s recently come to my attention that dreams about losing teeth are extremely common and this reminded me that the very first Introspection post ever was about a dream about teeth. Predictably, of course, the dream was actually about gaining…
April Come She Will
New image up top. Refresh the page if you can’t see it. If you still can’t see it, well, here it is below: One of the subtler overall changes on the page, going with a relative simplicity that reflects my…
When Bad News is Good News
Please note that, despite the timing and the strange headline, this post is not in fact related to April Fool’s Day. Also, please note that I discuss reviews of the first 5,000 words of American Dream On below. I try…
Fun Facts About New Jersey’s Priorities
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…
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…