The first round of drinks arrived at the table and before I was allowed to take a sip of the very dirty martini with extra olives, I had to clink my glass and say cheers. The same insane ritual continued with the second, third and fourth round. Finally, I had enough. “What are we cheering [...]

In case you missed it, like I did, yesterday was “Change Your Password Day.” Another crazy day designed to remind us to do “something.” Anything to waste more time. If you’re like me, if you actually went through all the websites you have passwords for, it would take a little more than a day to [...]

It’s a slap in the face followed by an f-you. Only you never feel it. But it still stings. I was looking to send an email to one of my friends on Facebook the other day, and I couldn’t bring up her name. I thought I had the right spelling, so I tried again. And [...]

I don’t get the whole Starbucks thing. What drives people to overpay for previously frozen baked goods and obscenely priced coffee? I asked a friend of mine what the big attraction is and he couldn’t explain it – even though he’s one of these men who slither into a pair of skinny jeans, tops himself [...]

Every now and then I have a day where I just can’t come up with a topic to write about. Normally my writings have to do with something that pissed me off, made me stop and question common sense or an experience I had to suffer through and/or throughly enjoy. But today was one of [...]

I started ravaging through my top desk drawer looking for something simple – a letter opener. Digging through all the junk that has accumulated in there over the years, I found a lot of things that were long forgotten. Alka Seltzer Cold with an expiration date of 10/2004. My birth certificate. A door key from [...]

I sat watching an older couple at dinner the other night. There was no particular reason for my gawking, they were just there, I was kind of bored and at the end of their meal they provided fodder for today’s musings. “I’ll have a regular and she’ll have a decaf.” The waiter brought over their [...]

While digging through my wallet today I found one of those punch cards from Burger King. Nine more punches and I get a free Whopper. I don’t really like Burger King, but for some reason I’m still carrying this thing around with me from God knows when. It’s the little things like this that often [...]

Jack Benny was always 39. When he died at age 80, he was still 39. I’ve always been told you never ask a woman her age. What is so taboo about the number of years we’ve been alive? I had dinner with a friend last night and the inevitable question came up, “How old are [...]

In the last ten minutes, I’ve heard crickets chirping, horns blowing, bells going “ding” and other assorted nonsense. Like one of Pavlov’s dogs, each unique sound resulted in me stopping what I was in the middle of doing and react. Answer the phone. Respond to a text message. Tell someone on instant messenger I’m busy. [...]