I guess it’s time to address my small part in the Horror Movie Empire debacle. By which I mean you can add me to the number of people apparently ripped off by the online vendor. Even so, I’m going to say “ripped off” is a term I use reluctantly. I can be more confident and [...]
Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
Let’s start with stuff written Friday: As you may have noticed, I am now the owner of the elusive “drfreex.com” domain. Surely wealth and fame are just around the corner now. Sorry, I just convulsed myself with laughter. I’m better now. Having taken the more than slightly egotistic plunge of buying my own name – [...]
Grumble Grumble Coffee Grumble
What a lovely bunch of small irritations this morning. I guess I have, if not an addictive personality, a tendency toward fickle obsession, to employ an oxymoron. The latest obsession has been a Tumblr site. I got an account because gee, everybody else seemed to have one. It got me out of a jam when [...]
Pause Button.
Wow, now that I’m done with this week’s work deadline, I find that it is not yet time to relax. I have two shows in the next 36 hours. Have to take some folks to the airport. Shop for groceries. Return important correspondence which may (I hope I hope) mean more employment in the coming [...]
Is it just me?
Listening to NPR on the way to work, heard a story about the tip structure at restaurants – turns out some guy had noticed that the “suggested gratuity” on the ticket printed was a percentage of the post-tax total, not the pre-tax total, as he had done in his head. Who was to blame? INVESTIGATIVE [...]
Fearmongering. Again. Must be Hurricane Season.
We had our pre-Parade meeting yesterday. This Saturday the City of Stafford will be holding their annual 4th of July Parade (which is, I realize, not the 4th at all, but that’s just the way it goes). Work assignments were hashed out, crew calls, that sort of thing. Like most large enterprises, this thing starting [...]
Too Much Time on Their Hands
Hurm. Didn’t mean for yesterday’s post to turn into a mini-rant, but it did. Which leads to an analysis of why it did. What I meant to be an amusing anecdote became a full-blown complaint, and you know who I blame? Internet comments. To put it in purely geek terms, conversations are the internet comments [...]
The bandages have been removed. Can you see?
In order to keep up my streak of handing over entire paychecks to corporations, I did that very thing last Friday with Verizon, attempting to get my phone and Internet turned back on. (For those that are confused: during the Recent Troubles, both were shut off so those monies could instead be funneled to the [...]
Bah, etc.
The last time a hurricane came through, I rented. Now that I’m a homeowner, a whole new universe of tedium and anger has opened up for me. Though we were told an insurance adjuster would be in contact with us within 24 hours, it was actually more like a week. A week later, I attempted [...]
While you’re making other plans
When last we left our hero, he had just finished a very nice production of Dracula, and felt better of himself in every way. Could a return to the theater be possible? Was life looking up? Would he stop hating his job? Well… no. In fact, just after Christmas, we lost our third dental assistant [...]
