On the 12th day of Valentine’s, my true love gave to me:
12 foreign phrases
11 hugs and kisses
10 reasons she loves me
9 candy hearts
8 glass roses
7 sugar cookies
6 chocolate strawberries
5 little notes
4 sheets of poems
3 sets of lyrics
2 special coupons
and a shtick figure counting down the ways…
Really, she did!
Oh, and this is rambling #300. Cool, huh?
In the last week and a half, I’ve lost three pounds using what I call the anti-Atkins diet. As opposed to shunning carbohydrates, I go for carbs and leave out the fat and fewer sugars.
My typical eating pattern consists of cereal (80-90% carbs) and/or scantily buttered toast (50-60% carbs) in the morning, easily shooting for [...]
Or maybe even a slave to it…
I’m in the middle of one of the worst tax seasons I’ve ever had. Despite making much less than half of normal, it looks like I’m going to have to fork over some pocket change to the IRS, all thanks to that nasty bìtçh called self-employment tax. Under the [...]
No, not that kind of Latin.
One of my life goals that I have had for a very long time has been to learn Latin. Seems odd and a bit geeky, but I already command an expansive grasp on the English language and its grammatical quirks. Learning Latin will serve the dual purposes of helping expand [...]
My Mom passed me one of those myriad joke emails that she gets frequently. I scrubbed the list of humorous wisdom and passed on the best:
If you’re too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
Don’t worry about what people think; they don’t do it often.
Going to a church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than [...]
Some áššhølë took over my computer last night.
To be more specific, some áššhølë wrote some software and published it on the object.passthison.com subdomain which then took over my computer. While Googling for some information for some fellow notaries public, I ran across a notary website that displayed the ad that the bûtthëád created. Despite the [...]