I kid you not
I kid you not. This all happened today: I came home from a business lunch and the dog was nowhere to be found. I had left her and Allison both at home and neither was home. I knew Allison was at work and Rosie was supposed to be home. I …
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Excuse me, professor
A professor was sitting down in the student union, eating, when an undergrad called her attention and said: “Excuse me. You have pepperoni on your hair.” That professor was my wife.
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Who is the pet?
Rosie staying inside, where it’s warm and dry, watching Allison pick up her poops.
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When I play electrician
Last night we noticed that the power outlets in the master bathroom weren’t working. I went to the electrical box in the garage to fix it and when I came back it wasn’t fixed, and much worse, all the lights and power outlets in our three bedrooms were dead. We’re …
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Miracle keynote
Wow, what absentmindedness today! One of those days. I dropped off Fran & Rich at the airport and then clicked on my phone calendar appointment for my GPS o take me to the address where I was giving a keynote that afternoon. It surprised me that it was in Dallas, …
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Quiet banging
We woke up today, the day after Thanksgiving, in a hotel in East Texas, where we’ve been vacationing the last two days. I told Allison I’d meditate for the next 20 minutes, and she said she would take our dog Rosie out to pee and poop. So Allison and Rosie …
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Clothesline voodoo
I walked out to our backyard patio today and noticed two odd things:1) the retractable clothesline was up, but it didn’t have any clothes in it, and2) there was a weird object hanging from the clothes line. I thought the weird object must be a leaf, but it didn’t look …
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Secret Service close-call
Yesterday, oddly, I was at the White House for a convening on educational games. Of course, it was very cool to be there. We were a group of about 40 people in a conference room. The previous night, dinner had started at 9pm, so I was dazed and confused… At …
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A pleasant first impression
I was having lunch in our new home when I saw the garbage truck, so I went out to go get the garbage bins back in their place, when I saw our neighbor walking toward his garbage bins. So we waived and I came over and introduced myself (this is …
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Kitchen towel
First, this: I had come home with the towel around my waste from swimming so that the bathing suit wouldn’t get the car too wet, and then I put the towel in the most logical place when I walked into the house. Later: me: Oh, by the way, when I …
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