Month: March 2024

  • A Bear’s Gotta Do What a Bear’s Gotta Do

    A Bear’s Gotta Do What a Bear’s Gotta Do

    It’s sometimes a surprise what things will or will not disturb a child. Monster attacking in horror type show? Ah, she must be hungry. Ariel the little mermaid’s dad pitching a fit destroying her human-stuff collection in an animated rated-PG movie? Tears. Permanently scarred. We can never watch that movie again.

  • OJ Influencer

    OJ Influencer

    Haters gonna hate. Mini-cinnamon rolls gonna get juiced.

  • Learning Opportunity

    Learning Opportunity

    It’s nice when you can make a low-stakes mistake rather than a really catastrophic data-loss type of mistake.

  • Semester Planning Party

    Semester Planning Party

    Hey, I got a plan: how about we just wing it this time? No? *siiiiiiiiiiiigh*

  • Less is More

    Less is More

    Ah, the immediate realization that victory would be certain but hollow. An excellent life lesson.

  • Let Go Of Your Hate

    Let Go Of Your Hate

    This reminds me of how there was a time when my kids didn’t want to go down the hallway alone because they were worried a t-rex would be there. I’ve explained so many times that a t-rex wouldn’t fit inside the house, but logic only gets you so far when you’re talking about encountering creatures…

  • It’s Not Us, It’s You

    It’s Not Us, It’s You

    Really though, this is the best case scenario. Because the alternative to being a little bitter is that you’ve spent a long time convincing the customer they’ve done something wrong only to find it wasn’t their change after all and now you’re back to square one, where you really don’t know what’s going on and…

  • Disproving a Negative

    Disproving a Negative

    It’s difficult to prove that we didn’t cause a problem, but occasionally we are pretty sure it wasn’t us.