I try to be a good husband. Yesterday my wife had a bad headache. She get migraines from time to time, and sometimes they cause the muscles at the base of her skull to knott up and ache. And sometimes the pain causes her a good deal of nausea. It was doing both this time so she holed up in our room to avoid the noise and bustle of the children. I tried to step up to the plate and do all of the nightly parental duties like preparing dinner, making sure the kids' homework was done, entertaining the children and all that stuff. I even took my wife dinner in bed.
Then after the kids had gone to bed and the noise level had died down she came out of the bedroom and sat on the couch to watch some TV in the dark with me. I offered to rub her neck and put Ben-Gay on the spot that was all knotted up. Anyway, as I'm rubbing her neck I hit just the right spot and she grips the couch as though she's about to hurl. I didn't know if I should keep going so I ask her, "Am I making you want to throw up?" And she says:
"Not any more than usual."
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Tie
I wear a tie to work on days when I expect to do nothing. I know that sounds the opposite of what you'd expect, but I treat the tie as a sort of executive camoflauge. The more I look the part the less likely people are to ask whether I'm keeping busy.
Today I am well shaved and showered and my hair is combed. I am wearing all matching clothes with belt and watch and my clothes are cleaned an pressed. There is no way I will be getting any work done today. I might as well be invisible. I could pull my bosses pants down in the middle of the lobby in front of the Commissioner and no one would know who did it. I blend in that well. If I had a jacket to wear with this outfit I'd probably disappear forever.
Man that's depressing.
Incidentally, my loyal readers, I am sorry that my posts for July were so spare. I have two writing projects that are monopolizing my time. Well, really it's just one. I have a project with an animtaion company that is really exciting. If everything works out well I may be writing scripts for an animated cartoon this company is pitching to a cable network. It's very exciting.
Here at home a friend of mine and I are working on a book. My part is actually already done. I wrote this book a while ago and recently my friend mentioned wanting to work with me. I was exstatic because he is a fantastic artist. So this is hopefully the first of many endeavors in the future.
The future is looking up!
Today I am well shaved and showered and my hair is combed. I am wearing all matching clothes with belt and watch and my clothes are cleaned an pressed. There is no way I will be getting any work done today. I might as well be invisible. I could pull my bosses pants down in the middle of the lobby in front of the Commissioner and no one would know who did it. I blend in that well. If I had a jacket to wear with this outfit I'd probably disappear forever.
Man that's depressing.
Incidentally, my loyal readers, I am sorry that my posts for July were so spare. I have two writing projects that are monopolizing my time. Well, really it's just one. I have a project with an animtaion company that is really exciting. If everything works out well I may be writing scripts for an animated cartoon this company is pitching to a cable network. It's very exciting.
Here at home a friend of mine and I are working on a book. My part is actually already done. I wrote this book a while ago and recently my friend mentioned wanting to work with me. I was exstatic because he is a fantastic artist. So this is hopefully the first of many endeavors in the future.
The future is looking up!
Monday, August 13, 2007
Bathrooms and cows
Man, my office smells like a bathroom. More accurately a urinal. Dear Lord, what is that coming from. And by the way I don't mean my tiny little office, I mean the whole section of this floor.
What is that? Ugh.
*****
Anyway, on my way in to work today I saw another of those Chick Fil A advertisements. It was a big poster of four cow hooves and it said, "Show of hooves if you hate Hamburgers." Naturally there were some mispellings. Because cows don't spell correctly, everyone knows this.
Usually I like these Cow commercials. They are funny and the original concept was creative, but the longer it draws on the more it seems to be grating on my nerves. Not because I'm just annoyed with it. There's something a bit more disturbing underneath it all. The notion that animals are cognizant of their place as People Chow is a little unnerving. And if animals are aware why are chickens so much more suitable to eat than cows? And what do you think the cows think about the fact that they are negotiating with people to have us eat "fewer" of their kind. Surely they know that people are still eating their ilk by the tonnes. Can you imagine if an alien race came to earth and decided that they liked the taste of people and some other animal. Would we put up posters along the highway saying, "Raise your hand if you hate the taste of people!" And then imagine if these posters only had a marginal effect. Further, imagine those same invading aliens reading that poster, while eating a people burger, and thinking it was "cute." So anyway, the more of these advertisements I read the more they start to sound really Soilent and creepy.
When I read this most recent one, with the four hooves sticking up in the air, I couldn't help but wonder if those were computer graphic hooves, some really well done plastic stage props, or, perhaps, real hooves once belonging to a cow cum hamburger.
What is that? Ugh.
*****
Anyway, on my way in to work today I saw another of those Chick Fil A advertisements. It was a big poster of four cow hooves and it said, "Show of hooves if you hate Hamburgers." Naturally there were some mispellings. Because cows don't spell correctly, everyone knows this.
Usually I like these Cow commercials. They are funny and the original concept was creative, but the longer it draws on the more it seems to be grating on my nerves. Not because I'm just annoyed with it. There's something a bit more disturbing underneath it all. The notion that animals are cognizant of their place as People Chow is a little unnerving. And if animals are aware why are chickens so much more suitable to eat than cows? And what do you think the cows think about the fact that they are negotiating with people to have us eat "fewer" of their kind. Surely they know that people are still eating their ilk by the tonnes. Can you imagine if an alien race came to earth and decided that they liked the taste of people and some other animal. Would we put up posters along the highway saying, "Raise your hand if you hate the taste of people!" And then imagine if these posters only had a marginal effect. Further, imagine those same invading aliens reading that poster, while eating a people burger, and thinking it was "cute." So anyway, the more of these advertisements I read the more they start to sound really Soilent and creepy.
When I read this most recent one, with the four hooves sticking up in the air, I couldn't help but wonder if those were computer graphic hooves, some really well done plastic stage props, or, perhaps, real hooves once belonging to a cow cum hamburger.
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