apropos of anything

My DVD player. It ate the fifth disc in my Gilmore Girls season two set, and it seems to have choked on the pieces. On my list of things to do tomorrow: Take the player to a repair shop.
My HVAC unit. It sputters a little bit, but as of this morning, it has stopped actually [...]

Here. Or here. Or here. Or some other charitable organization that is collecting for the tsunami victims for purely humanitarian reasons.
Do it because I say, or because, to borrow a phrase from ABChao, giving makes you pretty.
And if that’s not reason enough, do it because but for the grace of God, that could have [...]

It’s no secret that I’m as likely to celebrate Christmas as I am Hannukah. (Although, when you consider some of the people I know, there is a tiny chance, exactly equal in both cases.)
And yet tonight, Christmas Eve night, we had a family party over turkey. My father’s nephew (who is married to my mother’s [...]

One from our drive up to Chicago on Saturday:
In the left lane, a tractor trailer. In the right lane, us. Suddenly the tractor trailer decides it wants to go right, turns on the blinker accordingly, and begins to move right… except we were still there. Right next to it, in fact. Aamir begins leaning on [...]

And that someody would be Ivan, who this morning STOLE FROM HIS CHILD to pay his MARTA fare.

Yesterday on my way home from Chicago, my flight was delayed due to a maintenance problem in Atlanta. This was after I just barely missed getting on an earlier flight. (The gate employee wouldn’t let me switch flights because I’d checked bags for my original one, and the check-in employee didn’t mention there was room [...]

It’s Tuba Christmas Day. And from the looks of it, today will be the Biggest. Tuba. Christmas. Ever. Properties has cleared out all the tables in the atrium, whereas in previous years, they’d only allocate half the atrium space to our tuba friends. The crowd has started to arrive (T-minus 29 minutes until the festivities [...]

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working towards something that I didn’t want to put into writing or even verbalize very much because I was afraid the details wouldn’t work out and then not only would I be horribly disappointed, my disappointment would be available for everyone else to see as well. As [...]

It seems the President has a sense of humor:

I’m just as shocked as the rest of you. At least, those of you who didn’t catch the line on Jon Stewart first.

And not because there are any Toros (or Clovers, for that matter) in the atmosphere.
This afternoon/early evening, I made ande ka pulao (egg pulao, and if you don’t know what pulao is, you need to get yourself to an Indian restaurant at your earliest convenience). As is my wont when making Indian food, I open [...]