Battling an Antisocial Thanksgiving

Sometimes the holiday season, with its Thanksgiving start line, feels like a marathon conducted at 200 meter sprint pace while you, the runner, are simultaneously participating in a secret military psychology experiment. Don’t get me wrong, I love the holidays: the decorations, the food, the music, and seeing friends and family. Of course, [...]

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NaNoWriMo Word Count Vs. Bond, James Bond

I’ve been holding on to a gift card for AMC movie theaters for almost a year. It was a present from Christmas 2007. You see how often the programmer and I go to the movies? Obviously we haven’t been since Christmas and truthfully I can’t think of any movies we saw BEFORE [...]

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Listen Or The Chickens Will Get You

Okay, so the chickens aren’t after you; they’re hunting me, but that is a story for another day.
This post is actually about listening, something I don’t do very well.
It isn’t that I don’t think people have wonderful and important things to say.
It isn’t that I think I’m right and you’re wrong (note to reader: programmer [...]

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If You Don’t Vote, YOU LOSE!

The programmer shoved the sample ballot under my nose.
“You need to research the constitutional and charter amendments and make your decisions.”
Needless to say, I paused in catching up on the latest gossip important world affairs and gave the programmer a considering look. You know the look. The who are you and what have [...]

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