Posted in Dasad Adventures, Wanderings, tagged coffee, economy, education, elliptical, exercise equipment, family, games, humor, iced tea, jobs, life, Masters Degree, Panera Bread, teaching, technology, tests, treadmills on April 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Internet deprivation has once again driven me to people-gaze at Panera Bread. Last night with the sound of thunder and a few rogue sparks, our modem fried: circuit boards blackened, wires caramelized. The sequence of events that followed our bandwidth’s demise is akin to the first radio broadcast of Wells’ “War of the Worlds:”
FLASH!
BOOM!
Zap!
Pop!
Fzzzzzz . [...]
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Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged books, class, life, Metro, questions, school, stress, tests, work on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My teacher walked into the classroom and frowned at me while I typed. Apparently my focus while writing is such that I seem angry or upset, as if contemplating a bad exam grade or a disparaging letter to Microsoft for recently mind-wiping my Xbox (The company is sin incarnate. Seeing the RLoD (Red Lights of [...]
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Family projects much like trading stock on the Wall Street floor culminates as a lesson in organized chaos. Take this morning for instance, which involved the disassembly and transport of one bunk-bed down one flight of steps. Other furniture, clothes, bins, toys, and debris were involved as well but despite popular opinion were not responsible [...]
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