Category: Philosophy

Stopping to smell the flowers, err, hop aroma

~ Jason ~ 4 Comments

Have you ever noticed that everybody nowadays seems to have lists and lists of stuff they're actively checking-off  to feel like they're, you know, accomplishing those ever important "life goals"?  There's the pile of books you just have to burn through because everyone says that they're each, respectively, the best thing since Snooki's book*; there's … Continue reading Stopping to smell the flowers, err, hop aroma

New Year’s Day 2013: A brief look at the year to come

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It's early afternoon on January 1, 2013.  After another raucous celebration to usher in the next 365 days, people everywhere are a slowly, determinedly getting themselves into motion, while trying very hard to ignore that splitting headache and the fact that vampires have, in fact, been correct about that annoying daylight all this time. Luckily, … Continue reading New Year’s Day 2013: A brief look at the year to come

An actual text message I actually texted to my actual wife

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The Puddinette and I have a pseudo-regular habit of exchanging a few mid-morning text messages after finally settling into the day's routine. We generally recap the events of the kind of daily Tasmanian Devil-like whirlwind that happens when you've got to get three kids off to one school, a fourth kid delivered to preschool, one … Continue reading An actual text message I actually texted to my actual wife

Mastering the Not-Day: The Tuesday that isn’t, the Monday that never was

~ Jason

It's one of those days.  Yesterday, all of us worker types effectively won at Monday by spending Labor Day avoiding labors and instead lounged lazily in a scene of Greco-Roman-style excess.  You know how that goes, right?  Being all laid out on a burgundy velvet chaise wearing naught but a Snuggie (the modern-equivalent of a … Continue reading Mastering the Not-Day: The Tuesday that isn’t, the Monday that never was