A Box of Hollow

As a kid I grew up in a home where, damnit, we were all going to be creative if my parents had to force us! Hence, both of my sisters were put in ballet at a very early age. Fortunately when I came along, my dad took one look at me and immediately said to [...]

Episode 87…wherein our hero battles his early morning nemesis, the Purple People Sleeper…

Okay, so we didn’t get up at 8:00am as planned. Hell, we saw 9:00am coming straight at us; we basically moved aside and let it go ahead of us in the 10 Items or Less line. The only reason why either of us could form a coherent sentence by 10:00am was due to my mother [...]

Okay, so we’ll go with the regular plan then? Get some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage? Right….

I got the job. Personality won out over superior technical knowledge, which makes me really freaking happy; over the past few years, my ego has taken several hits from professional rejection, which has led me to becoming a bitter, bitter misanthropic bastard. Now - now, I feel…..I don’t know…..redeemed….almost rejuvenated.
Needless to say, my life is [...]

Dear Diary…Today I Became A Man…

I must be a real blogger now…it’s been over a week since my last post.
You know what they say - the best intentions, blah blah blah. The brutal truth of it is that I just have not felt…inspired to write anything. Not for a lack of stuff going on in my life, but in all [...]

Chapter 14 - In Which Our Misanthropic Hero Learns A Very Valuable Lesson, Also Known As "Physician, Heal Thyself"

I have a ritual when I come to work in the morning. Typically I’m the first one here at 7am - I open the papers, make the coffee, turn on the tea urn (the owners are Iranian and apparently it’s the only way to make tea; being British, I’d disagree), switch on all the standard [...]