Weekend Of Sin And Excess
I just dropped Maggie off at the airport. This will be the second weekend in a row that she’ll be away. Last weekend she was in Iowa , and this weekend she’ll be at the Contraceptive Technology conference in San Francisco. She has named the event appropriately on our shared Google Calendar—”M to San Francisco for Conference and Binge-drinking”.
In response, I have added my own calendar item—”Jeff’s weekend of sin and excess”—from Wednesday to Saturday, with some additional Sunday reminders—wash out stripper scent from clothes, return empty keg to liquor store, repair trashed house.
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Successful Vacationing
Even though I started out my Christmas break with a plague that literally stopped me in my tracks–I had to delay my trip by one day–this vacation was awesome for a reason that seems so stupid, it’s almost difficult to say.
I actually vacationed.
It seems so simple, but historically I’ve had a hard time actually vacationing unless forced to (i.e. I had no internet access or I didn’t bring my laptop). If I have my laptop with me, which I usually do, I’ll often default to tinkering with work stuff in my free time, which effectively negates any attempted vacationing. Pointless, right?
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