All the cool kids are running over to the Madmen Yourself avatar generator these days to make hip new avatars with a swanky and sophisticated ’50s aesthetic.
I am no exception.

Pretty cool, huh?

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It’s hot.

I really shouldn’t complain about the heat, because my office is air-conditioned, as is my house. Even my car has air conditioning. I need only be exposed to the oven-like temperatures when dashing in and out of buildings.
But I still complain. I have a proud, and thoroughly blended, genetic heritage, but I sometimes think [...]

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I placed 3rd out of 11 entries in a text contest over at Worth1000. Hop on over and read my entry, if you want.

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The night before I left for San Diego, I was running around like a Warner Brothers character, trying to get my ducks in a row before my flight. One of the errands I ran was to Costco.
At Costco, I grabbed all the prescriptions that were ready, some milk, some eggs, and some peaches, and headed [...]

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I hate to travel, so when I actually make myself get on one of those new-fangled aeroplanes to go somewhere, I feel obligated to at least TRY to do something while I’m there. In this case, I was in San Diego for a meeting (the annual meeting of the National Association of Patent Practitioners, in [...]

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Strange Trip continued…
My last day of travel remains a blur in my memory. I remember sitting in a car seat that seemed to have become welded to my frame. I was always soaked with sweat. There was a persistent itch between my shoulder blades that never seemed to go away. In fact, I seemed to [...]

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