Friday, February 22, 2008

My Family And Other Irritants

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It snowed overnight. Mrs Stevie, resplendent with bruised face 1 and suffering 2 from a bad back for Lo! these many years decided that the...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Matters Arising From High Finance And Improvised Ear Maintenance While At Work, With Special Reference To The Bloody Car Dealership

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Two days ago the half yearly car insurance bill was due, so Mrs Stevie gaily called them and had the $1200 costs deducted from a credit ...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Valentine's Day Massacre

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Last night Mrs Stevie began issuing instructions. "Flowers are a waste of money. Don't buy me any flowers!" she said. "Ha...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Grab Your Sou'Wester! Thar's A Nor' Easter A Blowin' In!

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Because the misery index isn't high enough it began snowing yesterday in the late morning. I missed my usual train due to my not being a...
Thursday, February 07, 2008

Another "Scientist" Has Too Much Time On His Hands

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Yet another scientist has found himself with a dearth of real ideas and has frantically lashed out in an attempt to look busy. Using th...
Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Now That's A Pretty Song

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Driving The Last Spike by Genesis, from their 1991 album We Can't Dance . The album itself is a mixed bag, and I've found myse...
Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Just When It Couldn't Possibly Get Any Worse, It Gets Worse

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I picked up the Stevieling from her grandparents place after school. She was all abuzz about how one of her teachers had got 45 group ticket...

The Name's Tugmolar, Isambard Tugmolar. Licenced To Print Money

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I had an 8:30 am dental appointment this morning I arrived at Doc Tugmolar's House of Pain at around 8:15 am, and was seated at around 9...
Monday, February 04, 2008

Blade Running

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Mrs Stevie gave me the Bladrunner Suitcase O' Ents for Xmas. It has provided endless entertainment since I breached the security sea...
Friday, February 01, 2008

Great Moments in Commuting

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I'm still sick, so this will be short 1 . They say "Less is More". I give you a veritable cornucopia of never-ending lessness...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Why Are There No New Posts?

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Because I'm sick, dammit! Doubtless some disgruntled "scientist" peeved at my raising the level of vigilance vis-a-vis th...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Finally! Scientists Do Some Science

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Today, in a landmark moment for science, US scientists from Texas and New York did some science and invented something 30 times blacker ...
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More Corporate Waste

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I see that Sun Microsystems has just paid one billion dollars for MySQL . I thought that everyone knew you could get it for free off ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The Ents Are Revolting (As Far As The Stevieling Is Concerned)

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Mrs Stevie and I have just finished a marathon session with Mr DVD player, and concluded our two-week Festival of Not Letting The Steviel...
Friday, January 11, 2008

It's A Conspiracy

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Last weekend, the Stevieling and her mother spent at some sort of girls-only sleepover and kafeeklatch, meaning I had the house to myself fr...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Inappropriate Places To Answer Text Messages #1

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Today, I was returning from lunch and stepped up to the revolving door serving the building only to observe a woman attempting and faili...

2008 Continues To Go Down The Drain

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Warning. the following post contains large amounts of stuff about computers, messing around with computers or dealing with people involved ...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

So Much For 2008

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Only eight days into it and already I've f bleep ed up two important pieces of paperwork beyond recall by leaving them "for later...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

The Point Of No Sale

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T'was The Day after Xmas And All through the Mall Folk returning their gifts How I despise them all. Boxing day is one of the busiest da...

Taking Stock

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Arrr! Let's Take a Gander at the Booty, Me Hearties! Xmas came and went in a very satisfying manner this year. Santa delivered the follo...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

It Had To Happen Someday, I Suppose

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With a skip full of jobs to do around the house today I was not pleased when Mrs Stevie came in from her organized religion and announced t...