Sunday, March 30, 2008
Another year, another move
We are staying in the desert, but will be moving to a neighborhood that boasts fewer gunshots, graffiti wars, drag races and rock-throwing teen hooligans.
As of May 1, we will be moving out of Desert Hot Springs, much to the relief of the Cap'n, who never could string the correct three words together to form the name of this city. Butchered examples include "Desert Palm Springs," "Palm Hot Springs," "Palm Desert Springs," and finally, "the town with the airport," even though DHS does not have one.
Our new place is in the Cathedral City cove, which I lovingly refer to as "The Wang of the Desert." (This is not to be confused with Wang's in the Desert, a great Chinese restaurant in Palm Springs at which I take predictable and juvenile jabs when eating there.)
The new house is smaller than the current place, but we decided to sacrifice square footage for safety. There are great views of the surrounding mountains, and our commutes will be shorter and no longer will include the I-10/Palm Drive interchange snafu.
Plus, it has a pool ... a private pool in our backyard, not an apartment complex pool contaminated with kid piss and old man back hair. And when it's 120 degrees for five straight months, nothing feels better than a dip in your pool, which the sun has heated up to 120 degrees. It also has a hot tub, which we will enjoy on the two days per year when the mercury drops below 78.
Did I mention there will be no more gunshots on our street?
Posted by Brian at 10:11 PM
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
They're delicious
Why yes, I do eat babies.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The giant office time suck
You think the NCAA tournament results in millions of lost work hours each year? (My pick in the pool, by the way: UCLA over Tennessee.) That's a drop in the bucket compared to the shenanigans a-brewin' when the office United Way campaign cranks up.
I have nothing against the United Way. They do good work, and I've heard that most of the dough they raise goes directly to charitable aid, rather than mailings or overhead. That's super. But holy shit, the sheer amount of time and effort offices like mine put into their annual UW drive is jaw-dropping.
My office is conducting the following over the next 10 days: barbecue lunch, multiple bake sales, poker tournament, theme baskets, 2-on-2 basketball tournament (in which Alejandro and I will avenge our last-second loss from last year), an unholy abomination called Penny Wars, a potluck dinner, and of course the outright asking for money. All of which are announced - often multiple times per day - via companywide e-mail blasts featuring 1 MB worth of gaudy graphics that instantly crash the Outlook server.
I would bet that if you add up the employee hours dedicated to planning, announcing, executing, recovering from and self-congratulating over these events and compare that to the actual dollar amount raised, the company would come out ahead by simply writing a check for the same sum to the United Way. But then we would be deprived of stuffing a five-spot into the Penny War jar of those bastards in Advertising.
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Sunday, March 9, 2008
Media frenzy
I've shown up in the latest column by the incomparable Maggie Downs: America votes from its tummy.
I figure I'll be on Page Six with a Page Three girl (NSFW) by next week.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
What I learned today
Do NOT give the cat a small piece of Andouille sausage, even if he was relatively good when taking his medicine. The result was voluminous, viscous and extremely unpleasant.
That is all.
- Posted by Brian at 10:34 PM
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