Dear Apple,
Please teach my grandmother how to use her computer. She purchased a laptop from you about one month ago and still does not know how to use email. Anticipating there would be problems, she immediately signed up for (paid) tutoring sessions once a week. She even purchased a book supposedly written for beginners. [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Dear Apple,
Posted in my people, tagged apple, bad tutor, computers, grandmother, tech failure on October 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
spooked?
Posted in love, tagged ghosts, haunted tour, love, moving on on October 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m not sure which is scarier: searching for haunted souls on the San Francisco Ghost Hunt two nights before Halloween, or realizing that you are in a relationship with someone.
Sure, the latter has its perks – you now have someone to rub noses with in the cold. Someone to cook you delicious pork chop dinners. Someone to kiss goodnight. Someone who [...]
My Uncle Tom
Posted in my people, tagged family, genealogy, wine on October 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There are moments in your life when everything comes completely into focus, when all of the confusion of your past clears in one instant and suddenly you understand exactly who you are. For me, that moment came last night when my dad dropped a bomb about our family genealogy.
“Have you ever heard of Thomas Volney Munson?” he asked.
As I [...]
the day my phone died
Posted in sports, tagged ALCS, baseball, bitter end, red sox, sports on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My phone was buzzing nonstop last night. A short sample of the types of text messages and phone calls I received throughout Game 7 of the ALCS are as follows: Folks exhibiting shock that TBS managed to get the game started on time. Crazytime! Bastards! Bunch of bums! Do they realize that this game is important? My grandfather cursing the Red Sox. [...]
believe
Posted in sports, tagged ALCS, baseball, comeback, red sox on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From three different time zones yesterday, members of my family watched as the Red Sox mounted one of the greatest comebacks in baseball in eight decades.
While I am not certain exactly where in Aruba my parents witnessed as the Sox began the long climb out of the giant crater they dug for themselves, my grandmothers back east sat frozen in front of their [...]
dire straits
Posted in all, sports, tagged cranky, paulson, red sox on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You know things are bad when:
1. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has become a principal character in your dreams. It’s true. In my most recent bedtime fantasies I am chatting it up with the 62-year-old mastermind of the government bailout package. Never mind the fact that I have never before dreamt about figures like Robert Downey Jr., Lance Armstrong or [...]
fleet week!
Posted in all, tagged fleet week, san francisco on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is no city on the planet that needs a large dose of testosterone more than San Francisco.
So when I first heard about Fleet Week and the prospect of thousands of sailors and military personnel infiltrating the city for an entire weekend … one could say I got excited. I even thought about having T-shirts printed with a [...]
playing with fire
Posted in all, sports, tagged conversations with a boy, crazy boys, fire, tennis on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Editor’s note: The fundamental difference between men and women is best exhibited through the following email I received just moments ago. I am still shaking my head over it. I am somewhere between amused, appalled, terrified and completely enthralled with the idea. Text has been edited for obvious (protective) reasons …
Email from boy:
Subject: Apocalyptic Tennis [...]
bad date
Posted in love, sports, tagged ALDS, cell phone etiquette, red sox on October 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Cell phones are destroying humanity.
Well, perhaps that’s going too far … they are handy in emergencies that require roadside assistance, your mom, or calling for Chinese take out while stuck in traffic. But that’s about it. For the most part, cell phones have put a seemingly irreparable dent in social etiquette.
Think about it. We’ve all seen it by now … the lady on the [...]
the lsat
Posted in all, tagged lsat, personal hell, standardized tests on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So there we were - frightened, stressed and gripping plastic baggies containing all we would need to survive the next five hours while sequestered in the basement of the physics department at USF.
Clasping spare number two pencils, tissues, and pencil sharpeners (or in my case, an eyeliner sharpener), about 100 of us gathered Saturday morning in the bowels of the [...]
