Category: another day in the life
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What’s in your wallet?
Chuck was wandering around the house this morning with a puzzled look on his face. I asked him what was wrong, and he answered, “I can’t find my business check card.” Uh-oh. He was pretty sure of the last time he used it, but it wasn’t in the usual places: by the computer (for online…
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Gravity is a bitch
Hi, I’m Eileen. I’m a spaz. There, I’ve admitted it. I have been clumsy from birth as far as I know (apochryphal family stories have me tripping on the umbilical cord on the way out of my mother’s womb onto the floor. But there’s no proof this actually occurred). I have been walking into walls,…
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Swag, glorious swag!
Well, after much hard work on the part of the fab graphic designer we hired, and much back and forth between ourselves and everyone we showed the designs to, we have settled on a graphic identity for our company, CEO Consulting. In the end, we decided to go with a whimsical look vs. a corporate…
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Lydia the Tattooed Lady
My friend, uh, we’ll call her Lydia, did a very brave thing yesterday. She had her eyebrows and eyeliner tattooed on! Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch!!! This procedure is just like getting a regular tattoo, except they’re basically putting on permanent makeup. Here are a bunch of before and after photos of this sort of procedure.…
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Long Beach Grand Prix (or Running on Empty, if you were feeling like Chuck)
The annual Long Beach Grand Prix was last week. It’s a biggish deal in these parts. it takes a good two months to prepare the roads and set up the grandstands and do all the prep stuff that having a whole mess of Formula One race cars tearing through city streets requires. Every year we…
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The many faces of Chuck O’Shea
Chuck had a basal cell carcinoma removed from his neck two weeks ago, as recounted here. He couldn’t really shave as the incision encompassed one whole side of his neck so he would have looked pretty silly going around half-shaven. The stitches finally came out last Friday, and by Saturday Chuck was ready to shave…
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