I recently experienced a luxury so magnificent, so epic, I had to write about it. I was shopping at a kitchen and bath showroom with a client when nature called. I excused myself and retired to the loo, which was outfitted very nicely with a Toto toilet. I’m quite familiar with Toto toilets, having owned [...]
Category Archives: Fun Stuff
The Elf has Landed
December 23, 2011 – 10:03 am
Nothing marks the passage of time more obviously than the growth of children from one year to the next, as I learned this morning when my 6-year old exclaimed “O.M.G.!!” when she saw where the Elf on the Shelf landed this morning.
May your holidays be filled with traditions, new and old, that [...]
Halloweenawaiting
October 24, 2011 – 6:00 am
Halloween is coming, and I’m getting excited! Here are some cool things I’ve come across recently that are getting me into the Halloween mood.
A lovely line of monster supplies comes to us from the Hoxton Street Monster Supplies store in London. (It’s really a front for the Ministry of Stories. After squeeing with glee over [...]
Design Thought for the Day
May 4, 2011 – 1:10 pm
A watched soft-close toilet seat never closes. ~ New American proverb
Wordsmithery and My Love of Metaphor
November 17, 2010 – 5:08 pm
The time dilation in effect for most of this year is now over. Time has headed over a cliff and is now falling toward December faster than I can hang on to my safety ropes.
Time dilation allowed me to do all sorts of things this year: gardening, complain about the heat, start a compost bin, [...]
That’s just good humor
November 2, 2010 – 6:30 am
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
So says Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (by the late, brilliantly funny Douglas Adams).
I love science fiction, and well, wickedly funny science fiction is just about my vision of nirvana. I would like to give you more quotes from this funniest series of stories ever [...]
Are College Grads Ready for the Working World?
August 24, 2010 – 6:00 am
Blog off!
What’s that, you say? Is that some new curse de jour for cranky blog readers and writers to hurl at passersby by? No friends, it’s a term coined by and an activity engaged in by some of my Twitter friends. Since entering the strange universe that is Twitter, I have met a slew [...]
