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Why do women wear makeup?

on July 03, 2025

Opinions Wimminfolk

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Graduate school: the 2 most demented years in history.

on June 01, 2025

Life in other cities School days

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Dudes breaking up with dudes

on May 30, 2025

Personal shitshows

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Are American schools really this bad?

on May 29, 2025

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Hey parents in the buffet line: what are you teaching your kids?

on May 25, 2025

Breeders Opinions

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Hey salespeople: always front load never back load your dealios

on May 23, 2025

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That one time I dated Stevie Nicks bestie

on May 15, 2025

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It's not the heat, it's the humility

on April 16, 2025

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Being flown to bizarro job interviews

on April 05, 2025

Travel stories Work freaks

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Toxic workplace hall of shame: Gantz-Wiley research firm

on February 06, 2025

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Part 1 of 4: Winston-Salem, NC. Tobacco lofts, jazz history & verbal abuse

on January 16, 2025

Life in other cities

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My first and last sea cruise.

Approaching Vancouver Dateline: 2018. One of the besties I grew up with, practically at his house, is a middle school science teacher. Summers off. He goes on sea cruises during the summer, he digs them. The thought of them made me recoil, which I did each winter when he invited me to join him, sharing a cabin, splitting the costs. Never thought of them otherwise, they seemed baffling. Except. He has a serious on again / off again illness. Currently in remission. Ergo, when he asked me again the winter of 2017, I reconsidered. He said there are two primary options: Caribbean or Alaskan. Departs Miami or Alaska. Big difference. I loathe humid heat ergo I started thinking about Alaska option. Never been to Alaska. Have you? Started to seem more appealing. Heads were nodded, tickets were purchased, the $200 wifi access pass was purchased, and so in June 2018 we flew separately to Anchorage. Me from west, he from midwest and met up at baggage claim. I recall he had been i...

That one time I dated Stevie Nicks bestie

Dateline: 2010. So I met Victoria via some dating app & we hit it off. First date was on 'eat street' on Nicollet Ave in Mpls, aka restaurant row. Very friendly, smiley, easy to chat with. Not just a music fan but she worked in the biz. At that time she worked at mid-size concerts backstage as part of the team cooking for the touring band & crew. She would show me the 'riders' she was working on, i.e., doing the shopping a priori. Riders are what a band's management provides to the promotor, basically their list of demands for various treats & sundries. The ones I saw made me say 'sweet jebus that's a lot of booze for one night.' But hey: fringe benefit. She gave me backstage passes for several shows, meaning I could go find an empty seat and take in the gig. I saw The Chieftains, Mark Knopfler, a Jimi Hendrix tribute with several guitarists. I would meet her at a precise time at the unmarked stage door and she would let me in and give me a p...

Seattle tech startup + edible overdose in Denver airport

actual ferry pic taken by me Dateline: 2014. Recruited by a Sr. Exec mgr from two prior separate gigs I'll write about eventually. He & I had a good relationship based on my sales success at those stops. Plus, he's a decent guy in many ways: smart, generous, positive, dedicated, loyal. Alas, our positive mojo curdled & died at this final stop. One might even declare there shan't be another. Keyword: shan't. I was there for 6 frustrating months. Frustrating for 2 good reasons: the software was created for a space I knew nothing about: the world of 'health care Third Party Administrators' (TPA). These are small mom & pop shops that physically process your health care claims. So, if UnitedHealth or whoever is your carrier, they don't process your/your doctor's claim, they outsource that to TPAs. No big deal. However, TPAs, I came to learn, live in the 1960s. By that I mean, they process claims by FUCKING FAX . Yes: faxes , like in old-timey mov...

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