Last week, while on a job site inspec­tion some build­ing foun­da­tions1, I had what must be the strangest con­ver­sa­tion with a con­trac­tor yet: Con­trac­tor (to me): Yeah, so we’ll just have the addi­tion­al bars deliv­ered in the morn­ing rather than attempt use some replace­ments… say, is that your nat­ur­al eye col­or or do wear some sort… Con­tin­ue read­ing ‘Ol Blue Eyes

It looks like I’m not the only one who can’t fig­ure out what year it is (or was, in this case): Dear Jason Cole­man,Your Epson $20.00 rebate check has been sent via 1st class mail on 12/28/2006. Please allow ade­quate time for deliv­ery.Sin­cere­ly,Epson Rebate Admin­is­tra­tor From an e‑mail I recieved today regard­ing some Hol­i­day shop­ping rebating.

It’s the first day of a new year and I am look­ing for­ward to it in a big way. Of course, that atti­tude springs from hav­ing had such a great past year. Angela and I went on a cou­ple of adven­tures to Paris and Hawai’i this past year. I start­ed a new job and also… Con­tin­ue read­ing For­ward, Back­ward, and Right Now

It’s Christ­mas Eve, and since Angela and I are just stick­ing around town this hol­i­day, we decid­ed to go run a few errands ear­li­er today. One of which was to go buy Sta­ples to pick up some print­er paper (I specif­i­cal­ly say Sta­ples, because they’re at the end of the street, about six blocks away).… Con­tin­ue read­ing Eth­i­cal Shopping