My gratuitous Debbie Downer post…

…or, when it rains it pours. I’m on day 3 of a terrible head cold. I called in sick. (Trumpet: wah – wah) My dog tore his ACL yesterday at the dog park. The vet estimates a very expensive surgery ($3,000) and long recovery (at least three months). I can’t afford the surgery and live [...]
November 20, 2006 0

My pet peeve: children on answering machines

I had to call a friend this morning to set up a meeting around some volunteering we’re doing together. Like many of my friends in their mid to late thirties, this couple has a young child around three to four years old. My married straight friends are in prime baby-making mode with baby batter being [...]
February 6, 2006 4

Southwest Airlines…

…lost my bag. I haven’t metioned that I have an interview tomorrow…and ALL my clothes are in that bag. I just need to vent that I was at the airport 2 hours early and noone knows where the bag is. I spoke to the baggage people in Albuquerque: “Bro, I don’t know where it is, [...]
January 18, 2006 4

Whiny-Hiney Wednesdays

DAN’S NOTE: A new feature of TURNING FORTY is my whiny post(s) for the week – “Whining Wednesdays.” If you don’t like the idea, whine on Wednesdays about it. I am having an ongoing battle with our HR department. We recently switched to online timesheets (as opposed to paper) and it sucks. I spend about [...]
January 18, 2006 4

Friday the 13th

I realized very late this morning that it is Friday the 13th. I have been a bitch all morning, and I now have a real excuse for it – the date! WARNING: some real bitching and whining follows – please stop reading if you don’t want to hear me rant and rave and hem and [...]
January 13, 2006 8

Bill O’Reilly – Part II

So, the gay agenda involves pushing “homosexual behavior” to the mainstream. Thanks, Bill. It only took 8 years for BM to make it to film form, so that was plenty of time to rewrite the story to include gay recruiting. And your point that both characters went on to get married to women, and when [...]
December 20, 2005 1

Learn about the gay agenda – TONIGHT!

I was at my gym on the treadmill at lunch watching TV and FOX NEWS happened to be on. Apparently, Bill O’Reilly is going to reveal the gay agenda behind Brokeback Mountain tonight. Since the short story was written by a straight woman, the director is hetero male and the two male leads are straight, [...]
December 20, 2005 1

Remember Ed Anger?

I perused the online edition of my local paper again today, and I am never surprised by what people write. There used to be a tongue-in-cheek column in The Weekly World News called “Ed Anger.” The writers at this notorious publication would use the Ed Anger column to go off on non-American values and other [...]
November 6, 2005 0

I’m back on the soap box

With the election in my home state of Maine next week with Question 1 (to repeal including gays and lesbians in the state’s civil rights protection clause), I have read letters to the editor with interest in the Central Maine Morning Sentinel. My comments are in italics below. Friday, November 4, 2005: Anti-discrimination law is [...]
November 4, 2005 1
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