Author: Paul Tomblin

Dissonance

It was very weird to walk out the front door this morning to see a FedEx Ground truck parked on the road, and find that it wasn’t going to us but to our neighbour. We buy so much stuff on-line that the UPS driver once joked “Here’s your daily delivery”.

What’s even weirder is to see Brad Choate misusing apostrophes. I sent him a link to Bob the Angry Flower’s Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots, but then I realized that it doesn’t say anything about the little quirk that you never use apostrophe-s as a possessive form with the word “it”.

Oh well.

Update: Brad saw my trackback ping and changed his blog entry. So if you’re wondering what the hell I’m talking about: where it now says “is on its last leg”, it said “is on it’s last leg” when I wrote the above. Sure, it’s nice to score one on a much better writer than me once in a while, but since he fixed the error, I look like a dick for pointing out an error that isn’t there. Thus I’m taking the unprecedented (for me) step of going back and updating this entry.

Hopefully others won’t have to deal with what I went through

According to AvWeb’s NewsWire, the FAA is FINALLY getting the idea that it’s better to have pilots who are on anti-depressants than it is to have depressed pilots who are afraid to seek treatment for fear of losing their medicals.

Let’s hope this doesn’t take as long as most FAA studies.

Strange

The other day I was trimming my beard, and I noticed this peculiar white discoloration on some of the hairs. I scrubbed and scrubbed, and it wouldn’t come off. Then I noticed that Vicki has the same thing in her hair. I wonder if it’s something coming off the pillows?

Vicki seems to be better at getting rid of it, though. She just mutters something about somebody named “Miss Clariol”, goes into the bathroom for a while, and comes back good as gold.