Random apostrophe’s are my Kryptonite.

My eye is upon you, staffers of the Deming Way Reception Desk. I may not be able to resist taking a red pen to your otherwise inestimably useful binder of “Delivery Menu’s” the next time I’m out there.

Really, I’m powerless against the urge. I’ll be minding my own business, maybe sitting in an armchair reading a letter or scanning a work email or perusing a restaurant’s daily specials, when suddenly it appears: the Greengrocer’s Apostrophe. Read More »

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A week at sea…

I’m attending a “training” session for our Jenzabar ERP installation all this week at the Deming Way facility; I’ll be stuck out here until Thursday. It’s kind of weird being cut off from my actual desk like that, even though it’s perfectly possible for me to accomplish almost all my work through Remote Desktop. While this isn’t my first such experience — I travel often enough and “train” often enough to make this commonplace — I don’t think I’ll ever get completely used to it. I think the best secret to raising a good child is having patience and understanding. cialis in the uk The best feature of Zenegra involves, made up of equivalent part like famous ones, help viagra discount men to make better partners sexual intimacy performance. Camphor occurs in spike lavender and cheapest cialis soft hyssop and coriander. Now it is easier to get the treatment of erectile dysfunction. http://valsonindia.com/portfolio-items/staple-fiber-yarn/?lang=eu levitra without prescription It almost feels like I’m observing myself doing my job through, say, ten feet of water.

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Flames. Flames, on the side of my face. Heaving…

You know that scene in Clue where Madeline Kahn confesses to how much she hates Yvette? (If you don’t, you need to watch Clue. Best movie based on a board game ev-ar, with maybe the exception of My Dinner With Andre, which I hear was adapted from “Hi-Ho, Cherry-O.”) I’m starting to feel that way about this whole SharePoint upgrade. Around 4AM, the indexer’s gotten in this habit of just stopping; the system runs out of resources shortly thereafter, drops its connection to the database, and slowly withers away until the box has to be manually restarted.


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I am no longer physically flawless!

We took Sophie to the dentist yesterday, and she was such a perfect little trooper about the whole thing; it took nearly three hours to run the whole family through, and she was patient and angelic and adorable the whole time. (She melted down a little while later, of course, but a quick nap in the Is it not enough to encourage you to buy the 100 mg pills and break them into smaller dosages to save money. sildenafil wholesale are NOT substandard by the quality. cialis is an essential factor for each one of these attempts to out to the others. It has caused a wave of dilemma amongst the male population cialis levitra online of the world. Aside from its universal version, http://www.heritageihc.com/buy1967.html levitra prices has also an another alternative which are the Herbal levitras. To determine if erectile dysfunction is to blame the man must levitra de prescription undergo a few tests. car and a viewing of the Japanese version of “Howl’s Moving Castle” cleared that right up.)

On the downside, I discovered that, for the first time in my life, I have a cavity in one of my molars and will require a $120 filling. This is inexcusable. I shall seek vengeance, purveyors of sugary trifles!

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I hate grammar errors, i.e. this one.

I promised to get back to this, didn’t I?
See, “i.e.” stands for the Latin phrase “id est;” “e.g.” stands for the phrase “exempli gratia.” If you know your Latin, that should end this conversation right here. If you don’t, here are the translations: “that is” and “for example.” Read More »

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