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Archive for January, 2008

not so taxing after all

(God dang it. I hit publish and lost the entire entry I just wrote. I am stomping my foot and pouting. This one won’t be as good! The lost one was a great work of ART!) I am happy to report that after crying that I would never be able to retire because I wouldn’t [...]

taxing

Explain to me why, when 95% of my money is electrons and I am lucky if I handle $20 in cash in an entire month, retirement rollovers are so complicated? I do not want checks for various LARGE amounts in my sweaty palms, waiting for me to get my procrastinatin’ ass to the post office. [...]

bad a$$

Today, I deleted all 195 items in my Tech Blogs folder. Without reading them. I just clicked “Mark All As Read.” Because it occurred to me that I didn’t really care, and couldn’t remember one single technical (read: work) related item from the past two weeks. To do this, without even glancing at them – [...]

taking a turn through Target

Alternate title: a conspiracy theory on the corporate machine that is Target. I saw some cute ballet flats in the Sunday Target circular yesterday. And because the pregnancy-water-retention fun has caused not only carpal tunnel in my wrists but swelling of my feet, none of my shoes fit. So the trip to try on said [...]