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Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky.
Sometimes, southern Wisconsin really reminds me of the Pacific Northwest. It’s been one week since we’ve had even a glimpse of the sun. That lone jellyfish cloud in a sea of blue sky last Thursday was the last time I spotted any sort of bright glowing orb (Christmas lights and lava lamps notwithstanding). Not only…
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Jellyfish Clouds Mean Snow
I was video chatting with my supervisor a few days ago, trying to troubleshoot a blog scheduling error. I’d uploaded a blog to the TobacCo website and scheduled it to post next month, but it went live immediately. Even though, on the website, the post date showed January 11, 2023. Our blog module at work…
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Shaped Like a Mitten? Consider Me Smitten!
I was clearing out old LinkedIn messages recently and came across one from a former coworker named Jason. He reached out to me last February because he was considering a cross-country move and knew I embodied that whole “rolling stone gathers no moss” mentality. During the course of our conversation, he asked, Do you have…
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Blogging Buddies, Boilers, & Brothers
Say what you will about Janesville — and I’ve said plenty, mostly unflattering (“Chainsville,” anyone?) — this city of 65,000ish half an hour from Fort Atkinson does boast one pretty big draw: cheap gas. We’re not talking two or three cents cheaper, either. Gas prices in Janesville are always dramatically lower than anywhere else in…
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My Kingdom for a Potato Masher!
When we were packing up all our worldly possessions back in August, we were trying to be strategic about which items we might need, and which could remain in storage for six months or so. We knew moving from a three-bedroom house to a two-bedroom apartment meant space would be limited, and we didn’t want…
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Effective Immediately
Last Friday at work, we got an email that stated, Effective immediately, Clark* is no longer a TobacCo employee. That just served to reinforce the notion that no good ever comes from an announcement that begins with the words “Effective Immediately.” Bad news always follows. Effective immediately, your cable bill is increasing by $7/month. Effective immediately, alcohol is…
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