Archive for the ‘People’ Category
Happy Birthday to You, Mom!
Of course, we’re all thinking about you today Mom. Our thoughts made all the more wistful knowing that your dear nephew Gene was also put to rest in Ipswich, England early today.
Thanks for all you did for me, our family, and other people and animals in life, and what your memory continually inspires with the [...]
If you can read this, count yourself lucky
If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all people living on Earth, that village would consist of:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans (North, Central and South)
8 Africans
There would be:
52 women and 48 men
30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians
30 Christians and 70 [...]
Keep The Sunny Side Up
Passive aggression can be a terrible thing when you experience it firsthand from another person. I think you’ll be seeing lots more of this form of anti-social behavior from people as the economy deteriorates further and the pressure to maintain one’s personal status quo and lifestyle increases. I certainly am experiencing it.
Recently a person [...]
Shoveling OPS
*Other People’s Shit
Jay’s Analogous Hierarchy Of Social Shit™ (1st Wipe) (2nd Pass)
Chicken Shit
Bull Shit
Elephant Shit
Ape Shit
Want to be a social animal, adroitly ascending the proverbial ladder or at least stay put, and hone your natural sensitivity for all kinds of social interactions, occasionally going “deep”, while adeptly keeping even [...]
Top 3 Toups?
So I’m reviewing my site visitor logs this morning, and I see a bunch of hits from Baton Rouge Rocks, a bulletin board site. Somebody in Lousiana put my URL down as the 3rd suggestion for a “top” Toups. I wonder though, what does being in the top of people who share a last name [...]
Meet Stalker Boy
I’ve been harassed intermittently since 1990 or so by a wacko in Salt Lake City. For why, I haven’t a clue. Obviously I tweaked something in the guy’s twisted psyche to the point he felt the need to strike back and take me down a peg or three. (Good luck with that, Stalker Boy.)
When I [...]
I Am The Big Easy
Ray Bonneville penned a wonderful song about New Orleans and he performed it live in Folk Alley studios, check it out!
Clients with no sense (and no dollars)
Ah, the terrible true tale of a telecommuting techie’s fiscal traumatization at the hands of a dim-witted client. Last week a new small business client bounced their initial check for $1,000, and then followed that up via email saying “…sorry, but we don’t know when we can pay you the total due of $3250″ for [...]
Jeff Hickey, RIP
Jeff Hickey, a wonderfully humorous and witty man, father and gifted musician, who along with Harvey Reid, founded the Third Hand Capo Co. in 1979, died on June 14, two weeks after a single car accident.
I’d known Jeff since the late 80s, when he was the National Sales Manager for Larrivee’ Guitars. He’d roll [...]
Her Way Is Officially The Highway
The signs are up along Highway 90 in Gulfport, Mississippi. Judith was a force to be reckoned with on the coast, in life, and, it’s turning out (pun intended) in the afterlife.
She worked tirelessly to set aside and revegetate key parts of the public beach for nesting pairs of Least Terns. To this day [...]
