In 1992, my wife was a lead pre-school teacher in Georgia. She made $9.75 an hour.
Last week, she was offered a lead teacher’s position from a national chain that you’ve heard of. She was offered $8.50 an hour. 19 years later and the pay for the people…
In 1992, my wife was a lead pre-school teacher in Georgia. She made $9.75 an hour.
If the web is good for anything, it’s good for one aggrieved person taking their screwed up situation, and imagining that it applies to millions. And thus another soon t…
Last weekend we (the whole family) wrapped up watching all seven seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, in a little less than 365 days. Yay us! So I’m now qualified to write a very long winded post about how Buffy is a mirror on life, or an allegory for …
Back before Christmas somebody seriously asked me what my college GPA was in an interview. At first I thought he was kidding, then when I realized he was serious, the conversation went like this. (Paraphrased from memory a few weeks later, but very clo…
The job ads. Who writes those things? Really people, if I was a “rockstar” I wouldn’t be looking for a sales job. I’d be hanging out in my room sized jacuzzi drinking Cristal like it’s water. So stop with the “If you aren’t a rockstar don’t bother appl…
Kelli Space is 23 and living at home with mom and dad, trying to pay off the $200,000 in student loan debt she racked up getting a Sociology degree from Northeastern University. If you are keeping score at home, her payments are $900 a month until 2011…
Last night it started raining at about 10 PM. Luckily we had retired to the tent at about 9:45 PM, and I was in the process of crushing Breck at cribbage when the raindrops started falling. Then we split two games of Statis-Pro baseball, with the perso…
For 40 glorious hours I couldn’t even call my wife, let alone post to Facebook or Twitter. When was the last time you were cut off completely like that? It’s liberating. I need to do it more often.
WTF? Not even a weak signal at the campground.
Cheap …
This is meme making the rounds on Facebook. But as long as I wrote it, I might as well use it here too.
The rules: Don’t take too long to think about this. List 15 albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. Tag some friends, including me, bec…
He is 35 years into his incredible career, and this album absolutely has to go down as one of his best. Armed with only a single mic and a 1950s era reel to reel tape recorder, Mellencamp laid these tracks down live from historic musical sites througho…
