by rickg | Aug 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
I was never really all that good at math. To this day it remains my father’s greatest disappointment in me that I can’t do anything but the simplest of addition in my head. I figure if I really needed to do complicated long division on my own, they wouldn’t have...
by rickg | Aug 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve had exactly one real fight in my life. It was eighth grade and after months (perhaps years) of torment from a junior high school bully I finally decided to stand up for myself and fight back. So when said bully came up behind me and hit me in the back, as he...
by rickg | Aug 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
I talked to a friend of mine earlier tonight for the first time in a couple of weeks. I thought it was a little weird that we hadn’t spoken much but I am more than a little bit self-involved these days so it wasn’t more than a passing thought every now and then. But...
by rickg | Aug 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
About a week until the scheduled surgery and now less than a week for me to proverbially shit or get off the proverbial pot, proverbially speaking. I will need to make my decision by no later than Tuesday evening because that is when I will have my last meal. It’s...
by rickg | Aug 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Throughout my life I have always tried to balance the two sides of my intellectual nature, which can best be summed as follows: Side 1: Knowledge equals power Side 2: The dumber you are, the happier you are This usually manifests itself in a voracious consumption of...
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