Waiting for Gouda

At the concert, I witnessed several instances of the most irritating use yet of cellular telephone technology. I don’t mean to keep harping on the fact that 99% of cell phone use seems to be utterly ridiculous, but… well, you tell me… What happens is this: Some knucklehead putz with a cell phone [...]

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One of my many job duties here at the front desk is, of course, to answer the telephone. As I am always looking for ways to be more efficient in the workplace, I have made it a practice to only do this when the phone is actually ringing. This seems to be working [...]

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With the weather turning cooler, the Lovely Wife™ and I have taken our crock-pot out of storage and are enjoying all manner of soups, stews, chowders and broths on a regular basis. For those of you not familiar with the wonder that is a crock-pot, it’s basically a large ceramic-type dish into which you [...]

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For about a year, I have managed to avoid all hair-cutting and otherwise hair-related establishments, accomplished via an exacting regimen of alternating periods of shaving myself bald and wearing a baseball cap every waking moment. However, last Friday I finally succumbed recently to the overwhelming need for a trim. It’s almost that time [...]

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Okay, I realize that cell phones are very useful items to have in case of emergency, or when you are traveling, especially for business. I have no problem with this. I am very glad that many of the company’s employees have cell phones, for it does tend to make things much easier. [...]

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One of my job duties here at the Front Desk was to greet visitors who come into the office. This was generally not a terrible difficult or time-consuming thing. But sometimes… sometimes…
Your typical office visitor fits into one of three categories.
First there is the person who just wanders in and is lost. [...]

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