I’ve had my cat for about a year now. When I got him, he weighed about twelve pounds. Now he weighs over fifteen. To put that in perspective, imagine gaining 20% of your body weight. Now put down the phone number for Weight Watchers, and return to the post. He was a bit skinny when ...

I’ve been inside for the better part of eight days. I’ve left my building twice in that span. Once to go to dinner with friends, and once to go to that interview. And now, I’m starting to crack. It didn’t bother me that I wasn’t going out when I was sick, because I was really ...

I went in for a job interview at a TV show this morning. This may or may not have been a wise idea, given how sick I’ve been and that I’m still only about 60% of normal. However, my internal debate about the wisdom of that move was halted at about 3pm when I recieved ...

I finally cracked and went to the doctor today, since my illness was not making any progress despite my sleeping about 16 hours a day and drinking of tons of fluids. The doctor told me I have a viral sinus infection. There’s good news and bad news with this. The good news is that a) ...

When the person who helps you file your claim with the unemployment office ends the call with, “Now you go take care of that cold, and feel better.”

I hate colds. Really, really hate theb. Because when I hab a cold, I edd up talkig like this. Add I soud absolutely idsade. Dabbit. Adybody got ady decodgestant?

As I pulled out of my parking space this morning, I felt the familiar whump-whump-whump of a flat tire. I thought it was the front driver’s side tire, which has been giving me problems lately. But I looked, and it was fine. So I pulled out of my building, and the whumping continued, and I ...

So why do I laugh when the cat is asleep and rolls over and falls off the bed, and then decides (after some wild staring) to sleep where he lands?

Perhaps it’s exhaustion and sleep depriviation combining to make me punchy, but I cannot stop laughing at the looks on the faces of the cats on this site.

According to the fine folks at Lifehacker, Amazon.com and Coinstar have struck an agreement to let you cash out an Amazon.com gift certificate from Coinstar machines without them taking a big chunk off the top as they normally do. Here’s the Lifehacker post, but it looks from the Coinstar page like you can also get ...