SuburbanAdventure

The Office 2007 interface has been much maligned despite what I think is its GUI splendor.  Despite having some installation problems, I’ve come to love the way the ribbon interface rewards exploration and cuts click-paths from 1-7 clicks to 2-3.  At the lodge executive board meeting, the uphill battle faced by UI designers hit home [...]

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I’ve come to end of my scanning work with a drawer full of drawings marked “various”.  I was told to name the drawings based on there content.  Easy enough for drawings like demolition plans, planting plans, process outlines and primitive dies, but what about the drawing of smoke stacks, exhaust towers, and cooling pipes coming [...]

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I purchased a bunch of drinks today and stated I didn’t need a bag as I was trying to prevent waste.  The cashier said she wished more people did that and then put 10 self-adhesive 1.5″ x 3″ “PAID” stickers on each of the 10 bottles of 20 oz Fuze I had purchased, nicely cancelling [...]

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Day 1
Coworker: You have a stain on your shirt.
Me: Yeah, baja chalupa, always gets me.
Day 2
Coworker: Did you change your shirt?  There’s a stain on it again.
Me: Yeah, baja chalupa strikes again.
Day 3
Coworker: No stains.  Did you find a way to navigate the baja chalupa?
Me: It was cold today, the stain’s on my jacket.

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A large clump of cubes have recently been populated with marketing folk and they simply haven’t learned the proper rules of scavenging and post-meeting food theft etiquette.  Once you’ve finished a meeting, it is not proper form to come back with a f#$%ing shopping bag to take extra sodas and bags of chips, it is [...]

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I drove into work today at 10:30 in the midst of a snow storm.  I crawled through the Pennsylvania half of my trip that usually takes 24 minutes in 68 and by the time I crested the Scudders Falls bridge my car had a two in layer of ice on it.  Entering Jersey, the hatred [...]

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To all those who’ve had bacon prepared by me prior to today: I’m sorry.  I sometimes prepare bacon by baking it at 400°F but as I began preparing breakfasts that otherwise required baking I had to move away from that.  I moved to pan frying I kept the surface at 375° and chronically overcooked it.  [...]

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I encountered car trouble on the way home eventually resulting in my car dying in my drive, blocking 1/2 of it as an onslaught of costumed 20-somethings were to raid my house.  The rain thwarted our initial attempt at diagnosis so we simply opted to push the car out of the way.  During break in [...]

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While discussing campmaster weekends, Nick Lutz pulled out his phone and the table went silent.  It was huge.  After several “that’s what she said” joke we began beating on his massive phone.  The phone was larger than the three other phones at the table combined and was subject to the following insults.

Your phone is coal [...]

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Somehow, after setting up for a night in Palmer Lodge, I trapped a bee in my sleeping bag.  I left the main room after Nick Gramiccioni began snoring like a 10cc buzzsaw and moved to another room.  While walking in, I felt a stinging on the bottom of my bare foot and assumed I stepped [...]

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