Breakfast was at 9:00 again today, and this time it was coffee, orange juice, blueberry muffins, green grapes, scrambled eggs and two strips of bacon. It was all good. After breakfast, we packed and were ready to be out of the room by 10:00, but left our stuff in the room until check-out time at … Read more
We were up at 8:30 in time to shower before meeting downstairs for the breakfast part of the Bed & Breakfast. There were four or so other couples—all straight—not that there’s anything wrong with a bunch of straight people first thing in the morning when you’re not a morning person. One of the couples was comprised … Read more
I had a delightful little breakfast of leftover bagels with Myra at the Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement. While we were sitting in the break area there, a guy from the group—the Study Abroad group (Personally, I’d rather study Aguy than study Abroad) [Badump-bump; I’m here all life, folks.]—who shares the third floor of … Read more
A lady’s friend had a great sense of humor and always used to say that when she died she wanted a parking meter on her grave that said “Expired.” So her nephew got her one on ebay! She said that her grave is right by the road so everyone can see it and many people have … Read more
From a Slate.com article, Ads We Hate: Over the past few weeks, my girlfriend has been looking into international cell phone plans. At the Verizon Wireless Web site, she had an online chat with a sales representative. I feel compelled to share this verbatim transcript: A Verizon Wireless online pre-sales specialist has joined the chat. … Read more
For goodness sakes, folks! Take some pictures of your loved ones, so you don’t have to use one like this one in their obituary: I did my part with regards to IBM’s Energy Action Day—of which today was one, as is the rest of this week with the projected temperatures—and worked from home. I signed up … Read more
This story is so pathetically sad. How twisted can parents’ “love” get? Deeper in the bowels of the transcripts: “The record also shows that she told Conrad that if her son was going to return to life with him after recovering from his stroke, she would prefer he not recover at all.” Twisted. If you … Read more
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Chapel Camp Lejeune, NC 29 years ago this evening at 7:00PM, I was entering this church to walk down the aisle to say, “I do.” And I did—for 16 years. Robert and I got up at about 9:00 this morning, and we had coffee and sausage biscuits for breakfast while poring—with … Read more
I put some time in working on STC stuff today—updating the orientation sign-up, updating the events calendar to reflect our Service NC State event being on Friday now instead of Saturday, and devising some fresh content for our home page, which I then sent to Jen. I cleared off the paper piles from my kitchen … Read more
Milford and I always found Howie to be the most classful and upstanding person. People, please! When leaving obituary sentiments is not the time and place to make up words! Classful? I was up and at ’em early this morning, catching the 8:19 bus, and arriving at the Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement (CECE) … Read more