There is a local brewery (Sweetwater) that makes some great beers and they’re also known for their attention-getting names.  The flagship beer is Sweetwater 420 and while they claim there is no drug connotation, I don’t believe it for one second.  More amusing are the horny names they’ve given some of the other beers.  When Georgia finally passed into law several years ago ...

Parties can sometimes be hit or miss but I was at 2 different kinds of parties this weekend that made my day for different reasons.  Sometimes it’s the small things in life that bring the biggest smiles.

The first was with a group of ex-coworkers who get together to have dinner at someone’s house every few months or so.  We’re all so “inbred” it’s gotten to the point where we’ve worked with each other for 2 or 3 different compa ...

Well, the Gods of Justice smiled on me yesterday and let me out of jury duty.  After last year’s 2 ½ week fiasco, I wasn’t quite ready to be a civil servant again.  Thankfully Dekalb County, unlike other counties in metro Atlanta, has a “One Day or One Trial” policy.  So if you don’t get called for jury duty the day you report, you don’t have to come back the rest of the week.

Now that the company I work for has consolidated its space from the whole 22^nd floor to half of it, we have a new neighbor on the other side.  Pay By Touch is the new company who inhabits our floor.  They are a firm that deals in biometrics – cool stuff like where you pay for an item by having your fingerprint scanned.  “Big Brother” concerns aside, it’s actually a neat concept but I don’t know if it will take off in the

Once again, the free schwag that the medical office Megan works in caught my attention.  This time, it was a delayed reaction since I had no idea what it was at first.  She brought home a cute, cuddly stuffed animal for Ally from the pediatric office where she is serving her clinical time for grad school this semester.  The animal appeared to be a crab/lobster/crustacean of some sort.  In fact, at the time, I didn’t even know the animals were a promotional giveaway, as I didn’t see the ...

Sometimes memories just randomly pop into one’s head and I began thinking of a neighbor I had growing up in Detroit.  His name was Ross Durkin but of course I called him Mr. Durkin since we still had respect for our elders back then.  There were certain memories that stick out and, while I don’t have a ton of great childhood memories, he always brightened my day when I spoke to him.  Plus, his grandson was my best friend during my grade school years and I would play with him almost every weekend when they came ...

When writing a blog, it’s best to avoid as many work issues or stories that you have, simply because it can bite you in the ass if something is taken the wrong way.  What I’m about to relay to you is simply a benign story that I found amusing and harms no one.

Most of you know I test web sites for a living.  My current company deals with online auction management software and it’s the Quality Assurance group’s job to ensure the ...

If there’s one thing that I never understood about New Year’s Eve, besides what the actual lyrics are to Auld Lang Syne, was the need to go to a bar for that evening.  Even in my prime drinking years right out of college, I never saw the allure of paying a ridiculous cover charge just to go to a bar that is overcrowded and overpriced simply for the sake of being out that night.  We always spent it either with friends at our place or with friends at their houses/apartments and it was always a blast.  Plus we had the added bonus of having elbow room and we generally didn’t have to wait to go to the bathroom unless someone was puking.

Sometimes stereotypes, positive or negative, really do have a basis in reality.  Irish people drink a lot, blacks run faster (yet, ironically, are the slowest walkers on earth), Asians are good at math while horrible at driving – all these generalizations aren’t backed up by a lot of facts but cases can be made for any of them.  This might appall some people but the reality is there are certain tendencies among races that can be categorized, even if its highly unscientific.