On about the first few years of the nineteen nineties, I happened to be employed at my college town’s local newspaper the Davis Enterprise. I worked in the Circulation Department where my main responsibility was making sure that our thirty or forty middle school aged newspaper carriers received a paycheck every month. I balanced this [...]
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The Imposter
Posted in Allegedly Funny, Memories on October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
PST and Y2K
Posted in Memories on October 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In anticipation of the impending November 7, 2010 change back to Pacific Standard Time, I am reminded of a former co-worker of mine back in the days before I became a public servant in the field of middle school mathematics education. This guy, whose name was Steve, used to prepare weeks in advance of the [...]
Pining for PIN
Posted in Memories on August 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Parent Information Night — PIN for short — is an annual tradition at La Entrada School. PIN takes place one evening during the first week of classes and it is the same exact concept as Back to School Night except PIN is a way cooler sounding acronym than BtSN. I used to enjoy PIN a [...]
Gaffe
Posted in Ask the Audience, Bad Behavior, Memories on August 12, 2010 | 6 Comments »
There we were, a few friends sitting together, shooting the breeze, and watching a movie on a premium cable channel when friend #2 silently excused himself. A good ten minutes passed before he emerged from the room down the hall immediately engaging in a hushed dialogue with my dad. The off-duty Italian-American Man Servant shook [...]
92 Flashback Special
Posted in Memories on July 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It was an age of smoking Marlboros and getting loaded before watching Star Trek: The Next Generation every night at 11:00 with friends. Unfortunately for the cumulative college GPA, reading for personal pleasure and intellectual enlightenment was the order of the day every day. Books like Generation X, The Basketball Diaries, A Confederacy of Dunces, [...]
Call Him Pasta
Posted in Memories on July 20, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Once upon a time in the Fall of 1987, a young college freshman pledging a fraternity offered up his connections for free spaghetti in order to feed the masses at an all you can eat fundraising event. From that day forward, he became known hither and yon as Pasta. Although not much is remembered from [...]
My Magic Kingdom Memories
Posted in Ask the Audience, Memories on July 3, 2010 | 10 Comments »
At some point during our latest and not-so-greatest adventure, I got to thinking about the number of times I have been to Disneyland. By my own fairly reliable count, I mark my tally at seven times. And as I was reflecting back on those experiences, certain memories supplanted others to become the top dog as [...]
Working for the Weekend
Posted in Life, Memories on June 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Now that I am living fat and happy courtesy of my monthly disability check, I figure that this is the opportune time to show you all my resume of the various jobs that I have done over my adult lifetime. I will list the company name, the tasks for which I was responsible, and my [...]
Moving Violation
Posted in Memories on May 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Over the years, I managed to earn five tickets for various moving violations. Two of them were for speeding in the Sacramento/Davis area. I remember singing along to a tape at the top of my lungs as I pushed the needle north of 80 mph and then seeing the black and white flash the blue [...]
An Ode
Posted in Memories on May 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Fehmeen asked me to write a little poem for her open house at school tonight. I wrote it before and after my Eye Max training session yesterday. The Eye Max btw is friggin’ fabulous. I want to drive it around the neighborhood for a while before I turn it loose on Al Gore’s information super [...]
