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The Law of Corporate Christmas Parties

I’ve actually been to some really good company Christmas parties, but there hasn’t ever been one where at least half of the employees there weren’t saying “Couldn’t they have just paid us the amount

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Blue Demands Running Water

Every time I’m in the bathroom – 10 times a day at least – I have to run water for Blue to drink. She doesn’t even get this excited about food. In general the

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Old but appreciated

My newly 28 ex-little league charge Nick Figone wrote me back. I was almost expecting him to write – don’t you have a life? I haven’t seen you in 17 years, but he wrote

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My Do I Feel Old Today

Not only am I older than both Elvis and John Lennon when they died, but today is the 28th birthday of one of my first and favorite little league kids, Nick Figone. In this

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The meaning of life

I’d like to think it was true love. Getting paid to do something you love is a good idea, but the reason the call it fuck you money is that perhaps the secret is

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I love animals but …

Someone who knows photoshop needs to help me out here so that my dear departed Bailey no longer looks like a space alien with laser eyes. I love animals. There is nothing like the

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NU stories for JJ

I was never a fan of science and in college I took the two acknowledged Mickey Mouse classes. The first was called “Highlights to Astronomy” and I unlike probably anyone else actually read the

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