Quoth Og Mandino

"All men must stumble often to reach the truth."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

Way to suck, Verizon

What?? A wireless company sucking?? Why, that’s unheard-of. But amazingly, today it happened, and Verizon was the sucking-sucktard in question.

So, my mostly-new Droid X went to Droid X heaven a couple of days ago … basically, the screen died. As the phone had been in an Otterbox since the day I got it, [...]

July 8th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Fail, Personal | 3 comments

The Virgin Queen

Well, apparently my dog is Queen Elizabeth or perhaps just Bette Davis but in any case, she wanted nothing to do with the stud dog we picked out for her. They had a lot of fun running around and playing together, and the stud dog was more than interested but … well … let’s [...]

February 6th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Fail, Family, Silliness, Sugar Cookie | Leave a comment

My own personal Mercury Retrograde

OK, I know the “real” Mercury Retrograde period doesn’t start for another 10 days or so, but I have had my own little retrograde this afternoon. It all started with needing one tiny foam cover for my BlackBerry earbuds. Just one foam cover! Dollar Tree used to be a reliable source for such … [...]

December 1st, 2010 | Category: Fail | 2 comments

Orange balls, life lessons

As you know if you’ve read this blog for any amount of time, these stupid expensive Chuck-it balls have gotten me into a lot of trouble. I lose them, get pissed off about losing them, but still I go out and buy more because the dog likes them a lot. However, today, as I [...]

April 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Fail, Sugar Cookie, Win | 8 comments