Does anyone remember a vile filmstrip from the late ’70s — involving two bookworms named Li and Barry? I watched it a couple of years in a row during my elementary-school days in Library class — a once-a-week period during which we learned about the Dewey Decimal system and were allowed to browse for books […]

Well, it’s official: I’ve permanently lost all the contact info, lists of books and records I want, and other minutiae that was in my Palm V. Here’s what happened:
1. I got a shiny new laptop at work and kept forgetting to take it to the Help Desk so they could install the Meeting Maker conduit […]

I took a “Summer Day” (one of two extra days off, to be taken anytime from June through August, for full-timers at my company) on Friday, but ended up accomplishing not a blessed thing — seems I’ve lost my checkbook, which I needed if I was to open a new bank account, and I spent […]

My boss’s mother just died. She was elderly, had been in a nursing home for the past few years, and was hospitalized last weekend after having lost consciousness, so it’s not unexpected — but it’s still upsetting. I’m the only one in my pod who knows, which is weird — my boss got The Call, […]

Open apology to anyone who’s stumbled across my journal while I was mid-tinker — my command of CSS is fragile at best. Lucky for me, my boy’s a genius at that sort of thing. One day I’d like to build a brand-new design and manage this with WordPress or some such — enough of this […]