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White Christmas? Keep dreaming.
I told Tara I wouldn’t do it. Promised her I’d resist the urge to take down all the Christmas decorations today. Tuesday, the last of my long weekend, would be a chill day. I’d do a little reading. Watch a movie. Kick back with cats on my lap. I had the best of intentions, guys.
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Don’t need no credit card to ride this train.
One of my regular work assignments is writing portfolio content for websites TobacCo has created. I talk about the changes we made to improve the client’s old site, but even though I’ve asked the project managers to include as much information as possible, there’s rarely more than a brief paragraph or two. The Internet Archive
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Face time only counts if they see your face.
Remember how we pulled off an Irish Goodbye at the TobacCo holiday party? Well, we may have slipped out unnoticed, but our slipping out didn’t go unnoticed. Although, we went unnoticed by one of the higher-ups. Confused yet? Our office manager stopped by my cubicle one day last week to make sure I’d gotten my
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Heckling the tree cutter.
Many years and a few lifetimes ago, I bought a house in a brand new subdivision in Vancouver, WA. It backed against a greenway with a forest of tall Douglas Firs. “Those are junk trees,” the builder assured me when I asked if they would ever be cut down. “There’s no value to ’em.” How
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Giving ’em the slip, social graces be damned.
Friday night I did something I haven’t done in five years: attended an in-person company holiday party. After several years of virtual parties (or none at all), I kinda assumed traditional ones like this had gone extinct. The fact that TobacCo only employs about 30 people must have something to do with that. Seems like
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Rockin’ Around Like Brenda Lee
Would you believe the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 this week is 65 years old? Brenda Lee was 13 when she recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” and six and a half decades later, this perennial holiday classic reached #1 for the first time ever. Pretty mind-boggling, huh? I can’t begin to tell
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