Author Archives: Steve

A round of birthday wishes!

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Steve

The whole day got a away from me so I apologize for not getting this posted sooner. Plus I will have to test the new WP 2.9.1 to see if it does scheduling of stories before I revert back to … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Cindy

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Steve

Easiest birthday to remember, good ol’ 1-2-3 or 1/23. Should we live to 2045 it will be even cooler. Women do outlive men on average so the odds favor her and not me to be around to write about it. … Continue reading →

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Useless knowledge may finally pay

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Steve

All too often I impress people with all the stupid, trivial crap I know. Beats me on why, it doesn’t pay squat. Unless you count D&B tickets whenever I play their trivia game; I must be losing my touch, I … Continue reading →

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Will Ferrel is the Typhoid Mary of talk shows!

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Steve

The ongoing bru ha ha involving Conan and Jay was “resolved” today. My general opinion of it was, “so what.” If I had a choice, I’d rather watch the Daily Show (never in a million years would I have predicted … Continue reading →

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1995: Chicago was a slim possibility

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Steve

While I’m kickin’ back, enjoy Austin’s “balmy” weather today, 15 years ago, I went back to Chicago for a job interview with Loyola University and to visit all the friends I left behind. I was really excited about the socializing … Continue reading →

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The mystery “taunter” solved!

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Steve

Last month, I posted a photo of the new cat who was visiting our porch, hanging out and just mainly pissing off Molly. The one we decided to name Petruchio. We figured he was a stray cat much like Caliban … Continue reading →

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The die is cast…for $500

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Steve

Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of us meeting in person at the Chili’s on US 183 and I-35 (now gone, moved a bit south on I-35). To everybody else, it was a day off through the Federal holiday of MLK … Continue reading →

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Maybe this singer should get my shoe solution

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Steve

If Little Books (nee Victoria Hesketh) needed to move into a new house (not sure why the English withhold articles with such phrases as going to (the) hospital) all over her shoe collection, then the Container Store should look into … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Mark, aka Narleyhotep

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Steve

Our friend and lawyer acquaintance, some inside joke from the Neil Simon movie The Goodbye Girl, celebrates his big day. Allegedly he’s spending it near the Houston area at a nearby Chuck E. Cheese. I didn’t know he hated pizza, … Continue reading →

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My brother to the rescue!

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Steve

With all the cutbacks in the SCLM, here’s a nice glaring example of what happens when the copyeditors are axed. High five to my friend Bryant for finding this.

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Not a bad suggestion to refine written communication

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Steve

One hazard with written communication in my profession and personal life is tone. When I was a big, geeky letter writer as a teenager, this wasn’t much of an issue with all the correspondence between my friends and me; we … Continue reading →

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May nothing come of this unholy union

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Steve

I was poking around the Web, reading a great article on The Guardian about the photographer Spoon paid for their new album cover only to see this horror. Scratch that. Horror implies I care. Corgan gets well-deserved razzing for the … Continue reading →

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Farewell CuJo and my teams won!

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Steve

The winningest goalie without a Stanley Cup finally hung up his skates yesterday. There are three goalies ahead of him with more victories; Brodeur, Roy and Belfour; yet poor CuJo kept getting put on teams which never made it. The … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Ayako

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Steve

My co-worker and friend let us take her to Dave & Buster’s for dinner to celebrate. She brought along her children Eddie and Anna. Those two are still at the age when there’s a time limit on the festivities yet … Continue reading →

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Happy 11th Anniversary to the Rheas

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Steve

Masami and Lee (aka Doc) have been married for 11 joyous years. According to Wikipedia, the gift this time would be steel, scent (huh?), fashion jewelry or accessories. Steel doesn’t sound very practical unless it were a new car. Scent, … Continue reading →

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