I’ve been playing the stock market for about four months now. On days like most of the ones this past week, they say that the market is searching for direction. As though the market, each day, were a living entity…
Tag: A Day in the Life
Announcing the Women World Leaders Quiz!
You’re Madeline Albright! While you have a way with words, it’s hardly always pleasant for those around you to hear them. Even though you see it as your duty to be diplomatic, this rarely means that you use kid gloves.…
Errata
Fish has been great lately about being my fact-checker. For example, I must’ve had Janice Mirikitani on the brain when I wrote “Janice Joplin” instead of “Janis Joplin” back in early July. Later, he pointed out that Evan Bayh is…
Thursday Roundup: Peace, Hope, Truth
Peace So it looks, thankfully, like the Olympic Ossetia War may be over almost as quickly as it started. If you’ve been under a rock for a week (or in Vegas, as I was for the bulk of the war),…
On Mars
So there may be rocket fuel on Mars. It’s in our drinking water and now it’s on the Red Planet. What would we be more likely to find as the remains of a past civilization, a past effort, than this…
Tuesday Roundup: Takin’ Care of Business
Just because I don’t write Introspection anymore doesn’t mean that I don’t often think in terms of quick updates. This blog format affords the luxury of doing both short blippy quips about my life like the old days, as well…
Analyze This
Last night I fell asleep early and slept a hard, lousy sleep. The kind of sleep of the half-dead wandering in the wilderness forty years, finally felled to respite on a stone tablet of some sort. Sleep that in some…
14% Less Storey
No, the title isn’t a reference to how much less I’ve been posting lately. Ha ha. Long-term followers of my blogging will realize that it’s been down far more than 14% over the past few weeks. Suffice it to say…
Cinderella Sweeping Up
“Grandpa, tell me what it was like back in the old country before the fall.” “Well, what do you want to know?” “I dunno. What was it like just before the fall? Did anyone know what was about to happen.”…
Ducking Behind Pillars
I’m not exactly the world’s most social person. This is a bit of an understatement. Much has been made lately at my place of work of the classic old Myers-Briggs personality tests and their typologies. I have to smile wryly…