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The continuing story of a man fast approaching middle age, armed with a fast wit and bad intentions. Follow me through the Atlanta nightlife, my own sad romantic life, and whatever else crops in my mind.
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So they loaded up the Truck, and moved...
Ramblings Post #65A shrewd investor I read back in the day, when I read investment advice like some men read a sports page, advised that during a calamity, one needs to look for bargains. And if the current state of Wall Street isn't a calamity, I'm ...
Fill in the spaces
Ramblings Post #63We all get busy. There's the thing, and then the other thing, and that stuff we were supposed to do but we forgot, and then that other thing and before you know you forgot something. And then you're really in trouble. Luckily for me...
Let\'s see, this weekend...
Ramblings Post #60 Every now and then, everything comes to a head. You have to go in for the interview, the test date actually arrives, you actually have to open your eyes who see who that is snoring, and so forth and so on. It's just generally unusu...
And the Weekend...The Recap.
Ramblings Post #57Life is about being true to yourself. Every so often we all need to stop, take a deep breath and take a long and hard look at ourselves and be honest with the results. Not what you plan to do, what you hope to do or anything like th...
Bad Concept Redux
Ramblings Post #49The definition of lunacy or stupidity or insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting to get different results. The problem comes in when you look at the situation and the result you thought everyone was looking for ...
More Actual Musings
Ramblings Post #46Sometimes, you just got stuff to say, but not enough stuff to constitute what you think is enough for a single post. So instead of letting it slide or putting together a "best of" compilation...assuming I had a best, and there was m...
Atlanta 2009
Ramblings Post #39I once left a message on Spanky's phone that consisted of me running out the allotted time (and it must have been five or eight minutes) with me simply repeating the word "Chicken" over and over, with different pronunciations for va...
Thinking about odd things...
Ramblings Post #38I started realizing I was old when home renovation magazines became as interesting as photos that formerly had held my attention since hormones hit when I was thirteen. Um, wait check that...since I was four or five. I suddenly reme...
If one more thing goes left...
Ramblings Post #37Sometimes you get frustrated. And you can sit back, assess the situation, figure out what you need to do and then execute. Or you can pick up a trash can and broken bottle and go to war. And if you're educated enough, cultured enoug...
Actual Musings...
Ramblings Post #33In the middle of the night, among mortal men and stout souls, those thoughts that find our minds open and willing are the musings that source from the dark end of the bar. It from there, a great number of the secrets of the life ori...
Just a little offbeat
Ramblings Post #31 The only thing constant is change. The only think you can be absolutely sure of is that you can absolutely sure of absolutely nothing. Life is funny like that, just when I think things are going good things change...the question is...
The Office Moguls - Part 3
Ramblings Post #16Sometimes you can only feel that you've done something wrong because karma treats you so bad. You know that feeling, when suddenly that trip you've planned coincides with a sudden downturn in cash and you get the runs, you know, som...
Are you sure the Economy is going where?
Ramblings Post #12Little did I realize that lurking beyond the edges of my own reality, another whole reality lay waiting to integrated into mine. And thus I bow my head and move unto the light of a new day. Or something like that. I just had the sud...
You got an overflow of women where exactly?
Ramblings Post #9I'm taking a moment resting my brain from my brief for a very important matter. One crucial to thousands, nay, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives. I'm talking about the ratio of single men to single women in Atlanta. Now if that ...
Sleep Late, Turn in Early
Ramblings Post #7There are many signposts in life that mark where you are in life. How great your Christmas haul, ...er, I mean, how much love was shown to you during the holidays? Was your birthday party really what you wanted, and not just that sho...
The weekend of plenty...kinda.
Ramblings post #4I begin to feel the icy fingers of responsibility brush at the edges of my being as the cold reality of mediocrity at this next level of education imprints itself on my mind. Well, not really. But I do need to step it up the next lev...
New Year - Same Stuff
Mental Rehab Post #46At this time of year we tend to look forward to better tomorrows, usually to find that by mid-February that the days look just like the ones from last year, and that health club membership doesn't work because they don't have the...
One of them weekends...
Mental Rehab Post #43There was a time when as a young man, I could hang out till 5am, go home shower and shave and turn it back on just like that until quitting time the next day - then crash. And sometimes I could do it two or three days in a row. B...
Back in the Saddle
Mental Rehab Post #42They say when you get knocked off the horse you need to get right back on it, before you can even think about it. The basis for this is usually if you think about it you'll realize how dumb it was to get on that particular horse ...
...and that's two.
Mental Rehab Post #41A friend of mine makes a list, a long list, of things they want to do before the year is out. It's kind of like an extended list of resolutions, but doable. Some are big (like buy a new house), some are small (like try the swordf...
A Quick Restaurant Review - Ray's on the River
If you've lived in Atlanta more than say, I don't know, a week maybe, you've heard of Ray's on the River. It is quite frankly an Atlanta Institution. Oddly, most of this jewel of the south's "institutions" are places to eat and not places of great tr...
So this is what's left of my Weekends?
Mental Rehab Post #32As the weekends get more boring, as if that were really possible, as they get more boring I'll try not to elucidate to much on the minuate, the silly and the just plain well, hell, it's boring. I do however promise it will get be...
A New Kind of Weekend
Mental Rehab Post #25Sometimes there are no excuses. You have to stand up and do those things that have to be done, make those moves that have to be made, damn the personal cost. And so this weekend when the nightlife was running hot and my alter ego...
A Quick Restaurant Review - Landmark Diner Jr.
Mental Rehab Post #9I'm knocking the dust off a concept, that I'm not sure I'm gonna continue. Most of these involved her, but a few of them don't, and since I gotta eat...well, when I remember, I may as well let ya'll in on what's out there. Even do...
A Weekend Out - Second Stage
Mental Rehab Post #8Sitting around the house ain't gonna fix nothing. The problem is you have to want to be fixed and I think I'm still just going through the motions. But my acting is getting better, and the I'm starting to find the shadows again. ...
I used to...
Mental Rehab Post #7I'm finding out a lot about myself. Some things that I didn't know, some others that I knew and was actively suppressing that have morphed into something else entirely. But I recently found out something else. Yesterday Schmoopy h...
A Weekend Out
Personal Rehab Post #5I'm starting to not like quiet times, for in those quiet moments I start to ask that question that will probably plague me for the rest of my life: "Why wasn't I good enough?" It's one of those things that will pick at the back ...
Though I stumble...
What had shoulda happened this weekend, but I ain't been nowhere and ain't seent nobody. I swear I'm putting on the makeup as fast as I can.Friday I should have gone to Sporty's long delayed Going Away/En.....well, Going Away party but she got upset ...
I-285
Personal Rehab Post #2More of the mental diatribes that were running through my head prior to my personal debacle. I'm going to just keep it moving, another step and then another. I don't expect to make it anytime soon, but all I can do it close my ...
A Long Slow Restaurant Review - Canoe
I realize that normally my restaurant reviews are neither really that quick, or ultimately a review of the restaurant but this weekend I spent a few hours at a spot that I like immensely. Back when Shade and I hung out, like in 2002, it was a little ...
