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My bank:
“All of our customer service specialists are busy assisting other customers. Please press “1″ to return to our automated menu or stay on the line for a specialist.”
Doesn’t it seem like if I press “1″ I will get a choice of those options again? The woman reading the prompt doesn’t pause enough on the […]

so…in contrast to Erika’s gift to me of Peter and the Wolf, yesterday I got Manhunt. Nothing like a “man gets drugged and kidnapped, and set loose in a town full of blood thirsty gang, all while being videotaped by a sadistic bastard, ala the movie The Running Man” game to either make you a […]

For our anniversary, Erika got me two versions of the story of Peter and the Wolf.
I’ve been talking about the story for years, and she had never heard it, and then over the course of two days it was on TV and I said something about it, and BOOM…Peter and the Wolf.

Peter and the […]

here’s an excuse, not so much for not coming in — and it’s not really an excuse…at least at my company:
“I didn’t mess that project up. I am only a technician, and to mess up that project would require a manager’s approval.”

so…we’re back from our anniversary getaway. Erika wanted to go some place that had a pool, and I wanted to feel like we were on a vacation, maybe even in a different country (Erika said she’d be happy with a different county).
we stayed at the Seaport Hotel down on the waterfront in Boston. We had […]

One year ago today (edit: tomorrow…I posted early), I married my best friend, and the best thing to ever happen to me.
Happy Anniversary Erika
It is one of life’s richest surprises when the accidental meeting of two life paths leads them to proceed together along the common path of partners, and it is one of life’s […]

more songs in the jukebox on the right…
for our wedding, we created a CD for favors, and here are the songs from it:
Princess Bride OST - ‘Princess Bride Theme’
Bing Crosby & Doris Day - ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’
Frank Sinatra - ‘I Get A Kick Out Of You’
Nat King Cole - ‘L.O.V.E.’
Harry Connick Jr. - ‘We […]

“Noooo weezing the juuuice”

Matt thinks he is the “king of the snooze button“, but I am the King of the CD Alarm Clock.
I can detect the sound of the CD spinning up, before the music comes on, and hit snooze.
And have you noticed that the “snooze time” has become non-standard?

It used to be that all “snoozes” were 9 […]

…might have to be Floyd (Brad Pitt) in True Romance.
I haven’t seen this movie in a long time, and I forgot how great it is.
Floyd or the whole “eggplant” speech (Christopher Walken and Dennis Hooper in a scene together is like a cinematic super nova!)…hmmm…I can’t decide.