Polls to help me win arguments

Number one, I’m gonna need you to be honest here…

It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good poll so I thought I’d get your opinion on a question I often ask during uncomfortable silences: By the way, one of these answers is mine. 10 points to Gryffindor if you guess which. ****************** And now, the weekly wrap-up of awesomeness: Shit I made in my shop (Named “EIGHTContinue reading “Number one, I’m gonna need you to be honest here…”

I’m just not going to talk anymore.

Victor and I are currently arguing about a large number of words which I apparently mispronounce, but I suspect that if those words are mispronounced it comes from the fact that I read much more than I speak, so (in my head) lots of words sound different. Victor says he agrees, if “different” means “wrong”. For instance, I pronounce theContinue reading “I’m just not going to talk anymore.”

I am the suspicious activity on my account.

For the last couple of years our credit/debit card has been cancelled over and over because of “suspicious activity.” I never know that my card been cancelled until my card is turned down by an uncomfortable cashier, and that’s always nice because it’s such a great self-esteem booster when your card gets declined at the drugstore when you’re buying toiletContinue reading “I am the suspicious activity on my account.”

Yes, I am neurotic. Thank you for noticing!

I’m often described as being “highly neurotic” and I agree with that 100%. I just don’t agree that “neurotic” means what some people think it means. Some people go by the boring, standard definition as outlined in the dictionary describing someone who is “mentally disturbed, unstable, or unbalanced”. And while that’s all technically true of me, I thinkContinue reading “Yes, I am neurotic. Thank you for noticing!”

I’m not talking ’bout the weather.

Conversation I had with Victor when he heard me singing along to Dan Seal’s “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight“: Victor: Seriously? If there was a competition for fucking up lyrics we’d have to build another house to store all your trophies. me: I’m pretty sure that’s how the song goes. “I’m not talking ’bout theContinue reading “I’m not talking ’bout the weather.”

Questions that haunt me. Show your work.

This week has been full of angst and weirdness and deep questions that keep us up too late at night and I’m not smart enough to debate them now, so instead I’m asking you for help in answering an important question that’s been haunting me since I first started arguing with Victor about it in the 90’s:Continue reading “Questions that haunt me. Show your work.”