Fire me? Err, ok :)
I must preface this little rant with a few things: I don’t run up credit card debt. When I find money, I save most of it. I live very, very simply. Today, a rather rude person seemed to suffer from the delusion that said “threatening to fire him will make him work harder for free”. [...]
Oh, SHIT.
How often do you say that? Moreover, how often do you mean that but substitute some other word for the explicative? For all of you who can’t bring yourselves to say it, I will. Shit happens. Shit more than happens, we personify feces with characteristics that allow us to proclaim that shit does not only [...]
Is that a kid or a wet log?
My 2 year old has masterd the art of going limp on demand. Somehow, she’s figured out that pushing against us (her parents) seems futile. She (my daughter) is now completely relaxing (as in face down) each and every time that we seem inclined to have her do something that she does not want to [...]
Can public schools be fixed?
I’m really starting to wonder about the survival of some public school systems. From what I hear, some of them are quite good. Independent school districts are also having a degree of success. What remains is, we need to live where we can work and our choices remain rather limited. I also know, some of [...]
So, what upsets you?
Getting ticked off sucks. If we get ticked off at 8AM, by 5PM we’re still ticked off but can’t quite remember why. We just attribute our ticked-off-ness to “events of the day” and leave it at that. Many of us get screamed at for a living. Yes, your job description might say “system administrator” (or [...]
Commercial kids?
I make no big secret about my aversion to commercial culture. But, that’s just my aversion. We’ve been approached three times by poeple who wanted to put our two-year-old in commercials. One commercial was for Pampers, the diaper people. The other two offers focused on more generic/stock use of our daughter’s photographs. We turned all [...]
Hyperactive, or .. bored?
Reflexes are good. Reflexes enable us to do things without thinking, such as pulling our hand away from something that is too hot to touch. Instinct is good, instinct helps us to do things that are good for us (besides the whole business of reproduction, that’s for another post) such as eating and sleeping. The [...]
Dora? Bah, Get them a flashlight.
Tonight, I had the noble (but horrible) duty of putting my two year old into a one minute time-out. I’m not sure how I drew the ‘bad cop’ straw, I’ll have to examine that later. 60 seconds, I counted every one out-loud, she was not a happy camper. To find herself in such a predicament, [...]
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