Category Archives: Pet Peeves

Knocking on wood….

I don’t want to jinx us, here, but Haley has actually managed to sleep in her own bed for two consecutive nights, only requiring a couple visits from us. Something went wrong with her sleep habits early on and we never quite managed to address it successfully, no matter what we tried; as a consequence, […]

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Why I Don’t Tweet

Part of that was my determination to leave my name on the world…or, barring that, at least to pee on something enormous in a memorable and lingering way. In most instances, the cases of cervix, breast and ovarian cancer are detected a bit too late when it has already reached a serious stage. viagra no […]

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One or more posts today are going to be about compound subjects

Compound subjects — like “Paul and I” or “one or more of us” — are very common, and it’s often difficult to figure out which verb form should be used. Is it plural or singular? There’s an easy trick. First off, whenever it’s a compound subject joined by “and,” the verb is always plural. In […]

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He’s a rebel and he’ll never be any good.

I’m pretty sure I’ve exhausted the patience of our Jenzabar trainer. I have a knack for identifying security holes and/or holes in process — something that serves me pretty well in my normal job — and like to use training sessions, when we have a captive vendor at our disposal, to either point them out […]

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“So what’s your input” is meant to be a hypothetical question, apparently.

I’m sort of tired of responding to my boss’ attempts to solicit our opinions of one of what he calls his “wild, crazy ideas” with just enough criticism that it triggers his defensive instincts. I can live with being told to “shut up” in front of the entire rest of the department, but it’s galling […]

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