I already posted on why we get sick a few months ago. The challenge of this post is to not retread that water precisely. At 3:30 this morning, I woke up and, for the first time in 54 hours, I…
Tag: A Day in the Life
The Stock Market Hates You
It’s becoming a well-documented fact that the US stock market these days is rallying on bad news and crashing on good news. But nowhere is this more evident than on days when unemployment figures are announced. Yesterday, the market rallied…
Our Month with Cancer
One month ago tomorrow, Emily and I were driving up from Fresno and talking about life and her family. We’d just spent a restful New Year’s weekend with a partial incarnation of the Garin Clan and noticed that her Mom…
Twenty-Five Things About Storey You Never Knew to Ask
The latest viral meme to hit Facebook has taken off faster than most anything. I’ve been trying to figure out the vibrant appeal in the simplicity of “say 25 things about yourself”. I think it comes down to just listing…
Watching the Watchers
Yes, it’s another BART vignette. I got on the train this morning and sat towards the back, cracking a brand new massive tome, my Christmas treat The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. Please note the title here –…
Public Service Announcement: Please Stop Killing Your Children Over Your Employment Situation
This one is only the latest in what is becoming just about the fastest growing trend of the last 7 months. People lose their jobs, go home, and slaughter their family. Sometimes they spend a couple frustrating weeks or even…
They’re Just as Suspicious as the Rest of Us
It’s simply miserable in San Francisco today. It’s cold and rainy and the type of weather that most anywhere except this good-weather-forsaken vortex known as the Bay Area would bring thoughts and hopes of overnight snow to salvage the otherwise…
Midweek Roundup
Periodically, I’ll get to the point where I’m almost incapable of writing new posts because every post idea I have is an old half-cooked one from two and a half weeks ago. And at the point at which there are…
Precipice
Last night I went to bed at 9:00. PM. I never do this. But I was done and could really think of no reason to be awake. The tank was empty and it was time to recharge. One of the…
TMR Posts, vol. 1
Can’t get enough of my opinion? Ha ha! If so, head on over to The Mep Report, for new quick-hitting posts like this one, which I almost cross-posted here. It’s mostly going to be stuff like obvious news stories and…