Ghostly

The whitest thing I’ve ever witnessed was Elizabeth’s face seconds before she administered her first insulin shot. But then, with the help of her big girl panties, she jabbed that sucker in and pushed the plunger with nary a problem. Very proud of her. On the other hand, she won’t share the spider ring she…

Paging Mr. Zog

Went looking for mustache wax here in the West of O over lunch and came up 0 for 3. Guessing no one west of 72nd Street has a stylish mustache? Did Council Bluffs intercept the mustache wax supply truck as it was heading west? Do the denizens of West O have some secret mustache wax…

I told you so

Coworker: Can you help me fix this? Me: If you remove something from the solution you need to tell the installer solution to not look for it any more. [a minute passes] Me: Oh, you’re probably aware of this, but if you remove that you need to coordinate this with all of the downstream consumers.…

Fantasy whinge

I am the Dusty Baker of fantasy baseball management. Betancourt brings this year’s Beatniks count of season/career ending injuries to at least three and possibly as many as five depending on how Marshall and Revere shake out. On the pitching side of the roster there are six DL residents, further evidence of my Bakerness. Also…

Addiction

The degree to which my morning commute is structured around the likelihood of scoring Spitz Cracked Pepper sunflower seeds is approaching silly. Even sillier? It’s been three days and I haven’t found any in the usual spots. I’ve been reduced to Giants’ inferior product.

ESPN on Sunday

Is it the case that the Yankees and Red Sox play every Sunday night or does ESPN show reruns of past games when they don’t?  Because these two teams are on every time I try to watch Sunday night baseball and frankly wouldn’t mind if the ball field opened up and swallowed both teams into…

The right password always helps

So I spent a lot of time with the iPhone WordPress app trying to connect it with this blog and was never successful. Turns out that I’d never “modernized” the password for this account so was using one I used to use when I first went back to WordPress seven years ago. Never bothered to…