I am smack in the middle of my open enrollment period and I have to pick a new health plan, as my company has decided that my old one was too expensive and dumped it. So instead of actually working, I spent the morning comparing plans, trying to… Read full post »

Recently Carrie Prejean, the disgraced former Miss California has been making the rounds of the interview shows, whining about her treatment at the hands to the media and the public. To this I say, “Tough (artificially enhanced) titties. You asked for it, cupcake.”

In case you have been… Read full post »

Well, she did it. After months of speculation, Carly Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlett-Packard has thrown her hat into the ring for a run at Barbra Boxer’s senate seat.

This is going to get ugly.

Speaking as a woman in high tech, nobody wanted Cary to succeed at being the CEO of… Read full post »

If you live outside the Central Valley of California you are probably wondering where you have heard of Lodi before. My bet is that you are thinking of the song, “Stuck in Lodi” by Credence Clearwater Revival where the singer laments his misfortune in getting stuck in the self proclaimed… Read full post »

Well, she did it. Ending months of speculation Meg Whitman, former CEO of EBay, has thrown her hat in the proverbial ring and is running for governor of the formerly great state of California. If the current pools are any indication, she will be the Republican candidate to succeed Arnold when… Read full post »

I don’t know how many of you have the columnist Ron Hart in your local paper. If you haven’t, you haven’t missed much, if you do then maybe you saw his column on why liberals are liberals. Here’s a link if you are interested in reading the whole thing (warning: don’t… Read full post »

One thing that puzzles me about the current health care debate:

If the Canadian and British health care systems are so awful, how the Canadians and the British aren’t trading in their model for our wonderful free market system?

The answer is pretty obvious to any ‘Merican who has actually… Read full post »

I write this someone who has private, employer-paid health insurance:

>>>>>I want socialized health care<<<<<

No, I’m not scared of government run heath care, because I have seen the other side, and it’s no great shakes. Lets’ just say I don’t thi… Read full post »

During my recent job search, one of the incidents that most upset me occurred when I was rejected for not having software development experience. One small problem, I have 7 years of development experience, above and beyond my 12 years in testing and QA. This would have been obvious to anyone wh/… Read full post »

The deification of the American military by certain elements on the right has hit a new low. Now Senator Barbara Boxer is taking crap for asking a general to address her as “Senator”.  Apparently, at least according to the GOP, it is disrespectful of the military to ask them to use/… Read full post »

Friday night, my daughter put on her cheer uniform, told me “Goodbye”, and piled into a car with her friends to go a funeral.

Yes, you read that right. A funeral. Actually it was more a memorial service, but you get the idea.

Several days earlier, one of her fellow cheerleaders,… Read full post »

After losing the presidency to a black guy, and probably losing a Supreme Court seat to a Hispanic chick, the heavily persecuted white, straight male minority has suffered yet another setback. A couple of local Don Imus imitators have discovered that transgenders actually do not find jokes about bein… Read full post »

To be unemployed is to know fear and uncertainty with a healthy dash of paranoia thrown in for good measure. You live in a constant state of unsettled restlessness and near panic.

You can’t sit down a simply read a good book or enjoy a good TV program without feeling a… Read full post »

I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but I’ve been gone for a few months. First, I had a tough project to get out the door at work, and it took a lot of my time and energy. I’m not a high energy person at the best of times, so I… Read full post »

One thing I don’t get about this whole anti-gay marriage thing, why is being gay such a horrible sin compared to others? Think about this for a while, murders can get married, child molesters can get married, wife beaters can get married. All they need is someone willing to say “I… Read full post »

Hope this is good enough. I could not find the site where I pulled my old avatar from, so I could not confirm that it was OK to use. This one I can confirm is public domain. Read full post »

Well, here I am, wallowing in one of those moments that every mom dreads. We all know it’s coming, but deep down we hope it never does. I’m talking about my son’s first real heartbreak.

He has been dating The Girl In Question, henceforth referred to as TGI… Read full post »

Article in the Sacramento Bee today about how businesses that supported prop-8 are now feeling the pain in the cash register as gays and their supporters take their business elsewhere. This is, of course, not all that surprising to anyone reading this, OpenSalon folks tend to be rather intelligent. W/… Read full post »

Almost 4 weeks have passed now since the announcement that everyone else in my work group was being given the heave-ho. I still have a sour stomach, I’m still cranky. I was hoping that everything would have settled down by now, but that is not to be. I am really tired… Read full post »

It has now been a week since my work group was laid off. As I type, I am sitting in a nearly empty row of cubicles, like some bad Dilbert cartoon. I used to find Dilbert hysterical, but since my life started running parallel to it, all I’m missing is the/… Read full post »

A couple of days ago my entire work group was laid off except for myself and one other person. As I type this, 9 very good engineers are joining the job hunting multitudes.

My group took the fall for some very bad management decisions that set us up for failure. A… Read full post »

This post was inspired by this article in my local paper this morning and the many recent and excellent posts on OS on Atheism in politics. Something has been bugging me about the this for a long time, because it seems to me that the people who advocate and insist that/… Read full post »

First, because she was here first,  the cat, Miranda:

Now the junior hairball, Tibbs the dog

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One of the things I wanted to do when I started this blogging thing was to spend some time discussing Green Living, and some things the ‘Fly family was doing to get greener and get ideas and tips from others.  When it comes to being green, none of us are in… Read full post »

Friday night I went to my first small-town football game since I graduated from my small-town high school. If anyone needs a topic for an anthropology thesis, I have a good idea for you!

One person walked by me commenting, “the whole town is here…” He was not k… Read full post »