Month: March 2012

  • Cedar Fever

    Yes, that is EXACTLY how I feel.

    I was awakened this morning bright and early by a phone call, which is never a good thing.

    The cheery female voice that greeted my less-than-gracious hello-noise was that of a computerized telemarketing system which proceeded to remind me that I did not yet have a plan in place for disposing of my sad remains should I drop dead at any moment, my “final major expense”, as she/it put it.

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  • You Get What You Pay For

    Google’s new privacy policy kicks in today. So far nobody’s turning over cars and smashing shop windows — but then, where I live everybody drives a pickup truck and we don’t really have much in the way of plate glass, so I could just be missing the excitement.

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