Monthly Archives: June 2006

I hear you bought a house and you’re moving again. You think here is much better than there because there are better things here than there were there. Right? There is something in human nature which makes us want to get up and move just when were are the most comfortable. Doctors call it...
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It surely began as a Good Idea™. Some executive somewhere near the top of the food chain noticed that our offices are not very busy during the summer months. He noticed that the building was half empty with employees taking vacation and he couldn’t help but think about all the increased energy costs were...
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My wife is a little more than five months pregnant now and she’s beginning to feel the baby moving around inside her. She tells me this during dinner. “Ugh… ” she says. “Either I just felt the baby kicking or I have some nightmarish gastro-intestinal problems.” “Ohhh…” I say, thinking about opening a window,...
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So here I am, relaxing in my backyard on a warm summer day when from out of nowhere I hear a tiny buzzing sound approaching from behind at a leisurely 100 miles per hour. It sounds like I’m about to be strafed by a Word War II fighter plane flown by a Smurf, and...
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The phrase “unmitigated disaster” comes to mind when people talk about my lawn. You see, I have many moral and legal obligations to uphold as the male homeowner of a house in the Great American Suburbs: 1. I am required to have at least one SUV in my driveway at all times. 2. I...
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