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so…if it turns out that I’m overly aggressive today at work I’m totally blaming it on the fact that I watched the first big fight scene between Neo and 156,873 Agent Smiths in Matrix Reloaded this morning during breakfast.
You can’t put a movie like that on, even at 4:00 in the morning, and not expect […]

so…
I left my building ID at home today. I hate when I do that! Now I’ve got to walk around with this “visitor pass” sticker all day, and knock on the office door to get in should I have to leave if nature calls…
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If I leave the house 5 minutes later than usual, I get […]

so…
I installed the downstairs AC last night, with the drafted help from my neighbor Mark.
There was some cursing, swearing, and cussing, and some duct tape, but it’s in, and it works.
Now here’s hoping for a smoother installation of the one in our bedroom.
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this really goes without saying, but I am ever the one to overstate […]

so…we, as members of Red Sox Nation, have my coworker to blame for Schilling’s blown no-no yesterday.
The Kid txt’d me yesterday, while I was on the train:
Kid: Schill throws nohitter!
Me: No shit!?
Kid: Busted in this last at bat
Me: What!? the game wasn’t over? You fuckin jinxed him!
Kid: Hey I’m a hockey fan…
Fucking hockey fans!
I wonder […]

so…
I work in an office where there is a water cooler at almost every corner (overheard: “the pay might not be great, but we’re well hydrated”). Keeping that in mind: I see a guy fill up a Brita pitcher every morning, from the tap in the kitchen…
…right next to the water cooler…
Don’t think about it […]

so…the men’s room at work smells like nag champam which is a welcomed improvement…
…and rumor has it that someone was snoring away in a stall earlier…
…if they start dimming the lights or lighting some candles, I’m going to need to go to a different floor…

so…I was dangerously close to missing my train this morning.
How close?
Well, I’m so glad you asked me that…I overslept by 35 minutes.
Overslept is just a kind way of me saying that I managed to snooze, and then turn off, not one, but two alarms this morning.
Isn’t that always the way? Especially when you’ve got […]

so…we got a new toy today, and I can’t play with it…I’ve got to work
We got a new camera! A Nikon D50, to be exact. With two lens — a 28-80mm and a 70-300mm! And I’ve got to work…
This is almost as bad as the time when I was in 7th grade and […]

so…it’s so cold outside.
[insert your line here. Yes, you really need to say it. Out loud.]
It is so cold that the steam from my breath froze into a thin film of ice on the inside of my glasses and I had to stumble through a foggy, psychedelic haze for three blocks down Tremont.
Maybe walking from […]

so…the great experiment has ended before it really began.
I decided that I was going to start driving to work, instead of taking the train, in an effort to work more billable hours in a week. 5 more, to be exact.
I figured out all of the costs and balanced them against taking the train, and still […]