So my friend Julie and I have hatched a brilliant scheme for a business: registering for baby stuff for busy expectant mothers. We could do the whole darn thing; interview the parents about their likes (do they like hip stuff? country stuff? cheap stuff?), register at wherever for them (probably BRU and Target, but frankly there are…
Month: February 2005
Am I Backwards?
A few weeks ago, I watched (or at least finished watching) two movies from the PVR. I don’t know if I’ve talked about them yet. They were The House of Mirth and Laurel Canyon. I’m concerned about being backwards because one of them was critically acclaimed and one was disliked by the critics. And my…
Puppy Bowl…
awww… The Puppy Bowl is on Animal Planet. It’s definitely the weirdest counterprogramming to the (real) Super Bowl. I theorize that it started out as Animal Planet planning to have dogs play football, but when they realized the puppies were…well, puppies…they went with the second approach, which is basically 3 hours of puppies playing, drinking…
I’m still standing…
(yeah, yeah, yeah…) Just got back from a fabulous weekend in Gene’s home town. Everytime I get back from a visit I think “Millions of people vacation HERE?” So anyway, I got home from work Friday at the usual time to find Gene on a conference call, half packed and not ready to leave. We…
A nice compliment…
My boss’s boss (the controller for those in the know) told my boss (payroll supervisor) that I’m doing a good job in payroll and “I don’t let the stressful parts bog me down”. I guess talking to him privately to apologize for my comment that the IT manager’s wife, son and dog are smarter than…