Category Archives: Sidenote

Miscellaneous Distractions

All those things that I do online, but would otherwise clutter this space, end up on my miscellaneous distractions tumblelog.

Simple Pleasures

Today I removed the car key from the key-ring that normally occupies my pocket, placed it on its own ring, and stored that ring near the door for the rare occasions it is needed.
My lightened key-ring now only holds keys to my apartment, and the magnetic key-fob for work.
Living and working Downtown continues to please [...]

Office Holiday Party

Lessons Learned:
the “geek” table ends up the loudest
the charlie brown x-mas tree is better left un-adorned
blue-balls, rubber, hot-wax, o-ring: all acceptable table conversation in context
placing the iPod Nano down your pants does not protect it from theft during gift-exchange
several glasses of wine does not make me a better foosball player
ability to walk home from an [...]

Car Accidented

Short Story: I was in a car accident, just a block from home. Everyone is OK, and the car is drivable, but needs some work. Or just lots of duct-tape to hold in the still operating headlight and turn-signal.
Recently I was talking about how I don’t regret selling our second car and only [...]