We’re very much in the children’s movie phase of our lives, so we end up watching nearly everything that scores higher than “total crap” on the Rotten Tomato meter. If a movie looks like weird and plotless garble, we may not watch it until we get it free on our T-Mobile Tuesday or as part of our Netflix subscription, but we will end up watching…
How do you talk about something that has become so painfully political in a non-political fashion? No idea, so I’m just going to rant for a bit. This was the second year in a row where I waited with sickening dread for our new company insurance policies. If they changed our provider–a very definite possibility–I would almost certainly once again be either forced to get a new…
My office has a great view of a very frustrating intersection. Accidents are a weekly occurrence, typically caused by some speedy driver thinking he can just make it, only to be proven wrong in the worst possible way. Everyone so far has walked away from the scene, shaken and hopefully a little more sober. Yesterday, though, a triplet of drivers managed to take that impatience…
This is the time of year when I typically look out the window at the beautiful sunshine pouring down on my disastrous backyard and think, “Boy, that snow sure did a good job covering all the garbage.” I have a list sitting in the back of my mind of all the things that I should be doing to make my house HOA approved. It pulses…
For the 5 people (I’ve got some more followers since last time) who noticed that I didn’t post last week, it’s because Amy and I were in the Emerald Isle. Normally, this would be the time to write a typical travelogue lining out the same touristy pictures everyone takes, but I’m not doing that. No, I have some complaints, and I’m using this space to…
I speak Spanish. Not as well as I used too, and my accent has transformed from something resembling a Chihuahuense ranchero to that of a pale foreign guero, but I still speak it. Since I learned it as a missionary for my Church trying to convince people to join us at our Sunday meetings, one of the phrases most deeply ingrained in my gringo mind…
My niece passed away this weekend. Five years ago, we lost our son shortly after birth. The event was so painfully heart wrenching that I’ve thought again and again how I wouldn’t want anyone to go through what we did. Yet just a few short years later my own brother- and sister-in-law have to go through a similar ordeal. I don’t really know what to…
The other day, I read on Engadget that Taylor Swift is not a fan of the music streaming “experiment.” I’ve been wanting to comment on that for the past few days, when it hit me that I totally have a non-tax blog that nobody reads. What a perfect subject to tackle on that corner of the interwebs! First of all, calling anything that was available on…
I guess this means I’ve come in a full circle. When I first started writing four years ago, it was to help me get through a rough spot. I really wouldn’t have turned to writing without the inspiration of my wonderful wife, who convinced me that writing was something people did outside of mandatory classroom assignments and one off misspelled Facebook updates. From there, I…
(Note: this was originally on my tax blog CreativelyAccounting.com, but I moved it over here, since it is not tax related) Sheryl Sandberg’s Ban Bossy campaign has been making its rounds on the interblags over the last couple months, and, other than having a conversation or two with my wife about it, it’s been little more than an interesting side note in my life. But this last…