I was never popular in school. No big deal. People made fun of my weird name, and how my parents made their fortune by purchasing and performing in multiple circuses, which is the whole reason we had enough money for me to go to a posh private school anyway. Got picked on by all the …
My life has seriously flipped upside down. I used to have it all, and way earlier than most people. I was in my early twenties, and I guess I was just blessed with a bunch of rare gifts and privileges: I could get up every morning at 6 am and feel refreshed. Never had to …
Is there anything that ruins your day quite like slow internet? I admit, we as a species have really just become utterly dependent on being able to click on a page and having it load in under two seconds. Add a single second to that count, and even that’s enough to cause clenching of the …
I know it’s going to be painful, but we need to move. It was just about tolerable- not great, but tolerable- up until we got the alpacas, but this is the last straw. I said that we shouldn’t get them. I said to Rob, ‘too many. Too many animals. We now have three dogs, two …
Whenever I hang out with my friend Eric, I become increasingly convinced that his workplace is extremely toxic. He’d be the first to attest to this – certainly, that was the case last night, when he refused to shut about it over dinner. Eric works for an academic publishing house, which you’d think would be …
Everyone in Over-Botch nowadays is so focused on their stats. ‘Oh, my stats say this, so you’re bad and I’m good’. Well, sorry. Stats in a game about working hard and doing your best to build a business and service customers are almost completely irrelevant. Never mind if you’ve managed to build up a network …