Smells like old person in here

Time to throw open the shutters and air out this place.

It's Better to Give

The sun is rising over the Susquehanna River here in central Pennsylvania.  I am sipping coffee while my sweet Basset Hound snores loudly at my feet.  Perhaps that is telling of life here lately but Christmas should shake things up.

The bf is in Boston working and I am preparing for the arrival of his family for Christmas.  They are a dysfunctional bunch which makes me feel right at home.  The cast includes a religious mother who subtly and successfully plays her adult sons against each other, an aloof divorced brother who has married a succubus, a niece and nephew in their early 20s who are still living at home, an ex sister-in-law who is doing her best to keep it all together and a partridge in a pear tree.

This morning I am shopping online for gifts.  What does one give people you hardly know and who have everything?  I even asked them directly and they are suggesting restaurant gift cards.  Really?!?!  Is a gift card to Olive Garden the best we can do?  Oh no, I can do better than endless bread sticks.

I'm thinking a bit of booze and booze accessories should grease the wheels perfectly.

Something for everyone at Oddity Mall

For the Record

This morning I pulled a random album from the shelf for a little 'round the house puttering music.

The 1966 Original Broadway Production of Cabaret

 

Interestingly, or maybe not, my album is slightly different than this pic above which I pulled from Wikipedia.  On my album the oval graphic is at the very top and the title is just underneath.  I know, yawn.  Maybe mine is a later printing.

The thing that really caught my eye is the third name under the graphic, Bert Convy.  Perhaps I'm a little slow at these things but I had no idea he was a Broadway star.  Wow what a great singing voice he had playing the part of Cliff.

We are not amused.

This one is for that lying client of ours who is pushing me ever so close to explaining to them exactly what I think of their dishonesty.  Their computers suck too!  Assholes!

Toot toot, heyyyy beep beep

I'm typing this post while on a work conference call.  One of our many Vice Presidents is droning on about Responsible Business.

Blah blah...strategy...blah blah...ethics...blah blah....opportunity...(beep beep someone drops off)

...blah blah...commitments...blah blah...innovation...blah blah...accountability...(beep beep someone drops off)

Take a few minutes to enjoy the newly posted 98 page condensed summary on this topic.