Archive: October 2004
Should Verizon get more of my money?
I always have choir rehearsal on Tuesdays. Last presidential election, I was working for the technologically saavy but soon to be laying everyone off company, and had a nice Internet-enabled phone. During rehearsal, everytime I wasn’t supposed to actually be singing, I was looking up election results at CNN. Now I’m paying for my own [...]
(Full Post)A couple of things
First, my annoying political zealot precinct captain co-worker told me that when I voted early, the political zealots would get my name and would stop annoying me. Second, your sewing room should always be in the back of the house. Why? Because when you’re sewing something for yourself, frequently you find yourself somewhat deshabillée because [...]
(Full Post)Intimidating
I’m smart. I’m also an obnoxious loudmouth. I’ve never seen anything I didn’t have an opinion about, a fact I didn’t want to research, or a piece of writing that I couldn’t improve. I can argue about anything, and do. So sometimes there comes a moment in a relationship with someone else when I realise [...]
(Full Post)Voting
I voted today. It was crowded; I spent an hour in line. Right behind me coming in to the building was an older lady in a hospital wheelchair being pushed by another woman, apparently a friend. As she was jockeyed into position behind me in line, she said something like, “Well, I don’t want us [...]
(Full Post)Scouting
The Boy Scouts of America depress me: Get Lost, Kid! The Cub Scouts tell the mother of a retarded boy her son’s no longer welcome. Eldest Son was a Cub Scout for a couple of minutes (no, it was actually years), and it was a toss up whether the religious bigotry, militaristic symbolism, or widespread [...]
(Full Post)VIR pictures
From left to right, Ron, Jake, Mike (kneeling), The Car (number 51), my beloved, me. It’s not our red pickup truck. There are more pictures in the VIR 2004 album.
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