My Future as the King of the Coffee Shop

... wonder about what life will be like. Fast-forward. We’ve worked hard. We’ve slaved away for the corporate and the gub’ment man. And now, our time is our own. Now what? For Paul, I think .... It isn’t about running with célèbretants. It isn’t about having a portrait hanging in some corporate boardroom collecting dust. It is about holding court in a little coffee shop, surrounded by a couple of people...

They Said It Couldn't Be Done (And they were probably right)

... experimentally. It feels really good. He realizes, with a frisson of panic, that he is beginning to look like one of them . The Heroes. Preening, dim-witted jerks. Useless corporate figure heads. He banishes the thought immediately. His budding six-pack does not make him one of them . He brushes his teeth and goes back to bed. Penny is asleep in a ...

I was at the Jacks/Fray concert in Wallingford last night and they were amazing! Andrew seemed really energetic and upbeat. But the all-time MOST AMAZING THING EVER was that they played Watch the Sky. In all the times I have seen something corporate and jacks mannequin I have never seen them perform that! It was the highlight of my night.

MOVIE REVIEW - Moon

...Scene after scene is alive because it is impossible to predict, co-writer/director Deacon Jones has imagined a scenario which is fantastical, but also perfectly logical, if you understand systems and entropy, and corporate bottom-line reasoning on an interstellar body with no particular laws. I don’t know if you call this a dark comedy, a low-key cerebral thriller, or a meditation. But by being...

Fanfiction: The Wild Bunch Verses The Mafia

... for working in a foot fetish, pbbtt! The Wild Bunch Verses The Mafia It was 1 am on a windy Tuesday when Charles “Wayne” Robbins stumbled into the men’s bathroom at Corporate Headquarters to take a much needed leak. The meeting had segued into a prolonged negotiation session, then cigars and coffee, and, finally, a merger agreement between two mid-sized shipping giants that...

Murder in Overland Park chapter 1 pt4

... range, execution style. No signs of a struggle, restraint. Large amounts of a night time cold medication in his system.   Where?‑Body found half lying under bushes near building #70 in Corporate Woods. No real attempt at concealment. No footprints, drag marks or tire treads.   Personal Effects?‑wristwatch, gold wedding band, keys (auto, house, office, unknown), 56 cents, wallet(Kansas...

So I am settling back in.

...a great deal actually happening. On Monday I walked into work to find my PC was FUBAR. Well not Fubar but slightly screwed in a major way. The Firewall had screwed up and the PC couldn't get onto a corporate network. That has taken till last night to fix, and was fixed with a new PC so now I am running a new computer, huzar, time to get all the old website and usernames entered in again. Luckily ...

laughing my ass off

background story The epic heckling and snark ! GPattillo @petehoekstra Just popped single bubblewrap bubble. Now understand Big Bang. #petehoekstr benhuh: @petehoekstra I had to sit in the last row of our corporate jet this morning. This is what Rosa Parks must have felt like. paganmist @petehoekstra Had to move all my stuff to a new office w/o a corner view. Now i know what the Trail of ...

Money Verse: A Geek God and His... Snugglers?

...all this was not in the plan, and by this I mean Jared breaking away, Jared going to a college that is not of his father’s choice. Jared majoring in subjects that are NOT business management or corporate law related. Hell even living with you two who I have no doubt my father has had investigated to the point that he probably knows the color of the underwear you are most likely to put on any given...

Future Moped

... with many types of people. Some business, some casual, some sloppy. We did not even make it to the table to see what everyone was signing up for. We walked around and noticed local corporate businesses, every booth had lines blocking other lines. most of these places have applications on websites. Nor was there anything there that interested me. So we left. I drove down to Beans & Barleys. I ...