There’s no better time to incur debt than during a prolonged recession. Over the past six months or so the lovely Ms. Trask and I have contemplated upgrading the kitchen. Actually, so much in the house demands attention that it’s almost impossible to know where to start. But every home improvement guru I hear and every home improvement article I read preach from the same gospel. When it comes to selling your home the biggest (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘random’
what’s cookin’
Posted: February 1, 2012 in TrasklandTags: appliances, house, humor, kitchen, life, lovely Ms. Trask, random
wreck on the highway, the information superhighway
Posted: January 28, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: concerts, music, New Jersey, plans, random, scalping, schemes, Springsteen, Stub Hub, Ticketmaster
Being from New Jersey, and of a certain age, it’s practically a moral imperative to like Bruce Springsteen. I imagine it’s similar with Prince in Minnesota or Reba McIntyre in Oklahoma or Pink Lady in Japan. (That sharp, blinding pain shooting behind your left eye is the Pink Lady memory rush I just laid on you.) I think in Springsteen’s case (more…)
common threads #1: smiling
Posted: January 24, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: behavior, Common Threads, life, random, smile, writing
Over on Flickr I belong to a group called The Common Threads Project. The project identified 78 universal human behaviors and traits which “bridge the divides of gender, race, creed, culture and class.” Group members are encouraged to post photographs illustrating these traits and tagging them as appropriate. It’s a nifty idea which embodies our commonalities in an effective and occasionally powerful way.
That being said I am not here to post photos, at least not under that oversized umbrella. This isn’t about photography. I’ll leave that to the Flickr group. Instead (more…)
no title comes to mind
Posted: January 14, 2012 in TrasklandTags: drought, dry, empty, life, random, writing
Winter’s drought is here. Inspiration’s flood is suppressed behind water tight doors. My imagination is cracked and dry. I am a panting dog, a desert wanderer in search of an oasis. Everything has been stripped, locked down and sealed. Nothing gets in and therefore nothing comes out.
Like an escaped POW I make my way through no man’s land, explosions (more…)
crisscross
Posted: January 8, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: beauty, conspiracy, crisscross, humor, lies, life, nonsense, not humor, random, Roswell, truth
The unseen are immersed in scurrilous activities. They are working hard on propagating their ongoing and ultimate conspiracy: the conspiracy which makes us think everything else is a conspiracy. But they can’t fool me. I know their game; I sense their charade. Their sleight of hand is (more…)
the cat that doesn’t blink
Posted: January 7, 2012 in PhotographyTags: animal, Bin Laden, Boomer, cat, Darwin, freak, life, pet, random
I'm looking at you
Meet Boomer. Boomer is a freak of nature, a furry ball of chromosome confusion. He missed a step on the evolutionary ladder or, if you prefer, (more…)
psych out
Posted: January 5, 2012 in TrasklandTags: INTJ, life, Myers-Briggs, psychology, random, test, work
“You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that’s part of the experiment? I’m like that all the time.” – Steven Wright
I have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test several times over the course of my working life. This test is designed to identify how you perceive the world and, as a result, function within it through psychological preferences. Ideally it will help you understand (more…)
oh christmas tree
Posted: January 2, 2012 in Humorous BitsTags: Christmas, Christmas tree, Druid, holiday, humor, Kardashian, life, Paris Hilton, random
The holiday season fades away. We’re speeding headfirst into January and the heart of winter. As such I can now reveal the sad and deplorable truth: Our Christmas tree is a shambles, a droopy mess, a meager and utter disgrace to the mighty tradition of Christmas trees worldwide. If our Christmas tree were a movie it would be Glitter without the glitter, Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo without the incisive social commentary, Little Fockers without (more…)
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komen’s rules of disorder
Posted: February 3, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: Komen, life, Planned Parenthood, politics, random, society
Invoking petty technicalities has always been an integral weapon in the political arsenal. These shifty maneuverings, while not illegal, highlight one of the major problems in our government. Delaying decisions, reversing policy or doing any of the self-serving bullshit many of our elected officials do by invoking (more…)