My stepsister-in-law Trudy gave birth to her and Doug’s second son, Elias Coltrane, very early this morning. That’s now my eighth niece or nephew, up from zero before my dad and Ray Ann got married, and up from four at the time they actually got married. I’m stuck at work right now, but I’ll update ...

You agree to work both days on the weekend after one draining week and before another one. Seriously, someone find me a shrink. I think I need to be tested for workaholism bordering on psychosis.

Good to know the Massachussetts Legislature has some free time on its hands. Courtesy Dave Barry’s Blog.

Apologies for the lack of posting. I’m still congested, still dieting, and the next couple weeks are going to be a bit more nuts workwise. Anyway, a few links to dump upon ya: – I’d make fun of these people, but I fear too many of you have seen me at occasions with an open ...

Colds suck. Colds suck more when you can’t eat chicken noodle soup. God, I love my body’s timing.

I finally cracked and decided to do something about the massive amount of weight I’ve put on lately, and am back on Atkins. I forgot how much the first few days suck. Your body doesn’t have any carbs to burn, but it hasn’t started burning fat yet, so you’re dead fucking tired until the effects ...

“Yep” or “Yup”? For the record, I say “yep.”

I’m home. God DAMN I picked the wrong weekend, temperature-wise, to go to Chicago. Actual sampling of dialogue on my flight in Saturday morning: Pilot: Folks, this is your captain speaking. We’ll be landing in Chicago in about 20 minutes. The current outside temperature in Chicago is (dramatic pause) ZERO. Entire Plane Full of Angelenos: ...

All my jobs out here have involved one form of coffee-getting or another, and I’ve noticed something while getting a zillion lattes and cappucinos: Nobody here can agree on what “skim” means. Half the people think (correctly, in my mind) that it means Nonfat. The other half think it means 2%. I think it might ...

I really like to work on set, but I haven’t done it in a long time. I’d forgotten that working on set involves a whole, whole lot of standing. Like, fourteen hours worth of standing. I filled in for our plague-stricken Set PA today (after working a half-day yesterday on set since we had a ...