Thank The Lord Above for TiVo!

TiVo I’m back!!! Oh how I’ve missed you! Finally something really cool happened for me!!!! Ok, so I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to find a solution to getting my TiVo up and running again. It’s been six painfully long months without my beloved best invention of the century. I decided to breakdown and have a landline set up so that I can get it running again. Little did I know, since I plugged it in a week ago, it’s been recording for me! My Season Passes are still working. Even the selections TiVo previously made for me thinking I might like were all on the mark. After running around the house trying to find out which damn phone outlet was active and coming up empty-handed, I sorrowfully pressed the List button on my remote. Merry Christmas to me!!! TiVo had the last week’s worth of Ellen’s, the season two premiere of Drawn Together (THE best show on Earth!) AND Real Time with Bill Maher from last Friday. TiVo had also recorded a show it thought I might like to watch… The Al Franken Show! I didn’t even know there was one but apparently he is running his Air America show on the Sundance Channel as well as on the radio. Season Pass me please! Thank you TiVo! I will never leave you again!

What Your Underwear Says About You

What Your Underwear Says About You

It's important that your underwear doesn't offend anyone - in case you get in a car accident. You're a closet exhibitionist who gets a thrill from being secretly naughty.

The Underwear Oracle

Today's Agenda

Today, all damn day, my new friend and co-worker Tony and I were subjected to yet another meeting to be continued again all day tomorrow. I remember when I first started working in an office (way back when). I used to get excited about attending meetings. I tried to remember why. I think it was merely because it pulled me away from my daily work routine. Meetings were rare. That has changed drastically through the years. It seems the higher you get up the ladder, the more you talk about work and the less you actually work. Well at least during work hours. On second thought, the workload doesn’t really change, you’re just given less time during regular work hours to do it. Hmm, there couldn’t possibly be a correlation between that and the fact that once you climb a few rungs of that ladder you don’t get paid by the hour anymore. Could there be? Nah. So back to the meeting. This week’s meetings mostly consist of outside vendors, new faces in the building. The reason I point this out is to prove my point that no matter where you go in the business world or who you have sitting at the conference table, the jargon is always the damn same. Words may change slightly just like in any other circle of people’s buzz words but overall they change across the board. Just how many more times do I have to hear: At a high level… Dropped of the radar screen… I’ll take the action item… Let’s put a stake in the ground… From a (insert word here) perspective… At the end of the day… Have you met your deliverables? We need to do a deep dive… Stop it! Stop the madness! Imagine hearing this short list of phrases over and over again, meeting after meeting, year after year. Makes you want to just jump up on the table and shout “SHUT THE FUCK UP!” “SAY SOMETHING FUCKING ORIGINAL!” Are you feelin’ me? Anyone else out there have one of those phrases that just gets under your skin? Spit ‘em out People! Ahhhh, I feel a little better now. Until tomorrow…

Ho Hum Life

Been busy trying to make my house look like home. It’s been fun but exhausting. Work has been extremely busy too. Rewarding but challenging. I guess all-in-all, life is good right now. My dogs made their first appearance in their new second home. Picked them up from the ex yesterday. Brought them home and they immediately did their investigation of the premises, nose style. It passed the test, I think. I just bought an area rug that they seem to have taken over. I still need a coffee table and once I get it, there will be less rug for them to lie on. I am a little concerned about Jez since she is 9 and the rest of the place is hardwood flooring. Both of them are slipping and sliding at the moment. I’m sure they’ll get the hang of it, just like I’ll have to get used to the constant clicking of 40 dog nails as they follow me through the house. Right now, not so fun though. I also bought them two nice new beds. Big, poofy, warm bean bag-like balls that conform to their bodies. I could not for the life of me coax them on but of course once I get in bed, they immediately curl up on their own and drift off to sleep. Damn dogs! So I guess my life sounds a little mundane at the moment. Mundane is good! I’ve missed mundane. In two weeks my Dad comes to visit to be directly followed by Carmen coming into town for the Halloween bash. And, in between all of this I will be dog-sitting Keiko, my Mom’s Shiba, Jez’s daughter and Halen’s sister. I’m going to savor mundane for now…