might start up again

I can't imagine anyone is checking this blog anymore. BUT, in the event that you are - I'm thinking of blogging again. Not so many kid pictures: you'll have to friend me on Facebook for those. But for Random Social Thoughts, the original intent of "everyday life" when I started three years ago - see me in my new space.

Sooner or later I'll archive/delete this blogger address. Cheers!

the last post

Well here it is. I never thought I’d start a blog, and after two good years (Spring 2006 – Spring 2008) and some down time I’m officially closing shop. But while I'm leaving this domain, I'm not leaving the blogosphere. Visit me at my everyday mundane but more comfortable home at Wordpress!

My first post was sixty-six words and one hyperlink. This post will be the same.

Same timezone yet somehow different

I'm traveling to Austin TX this week to learn more about our granting software. It's convenient that Austin is in the same time zone - only 1000 miles south of Chicago. That's one of the ways that Chicago is the same yet somehow different than Austin.

What to pack? Here are the next three days in Chicago:


Aaaaannnd, here's Austin:

I can't recall what I ever wore when it was 76 degrees! Oh yeah, the same thing but without a hat. Anyway, the snow is great but so will be my little Indian Summer this week.

super fun fun office guy

So my boss' boss walks past my cubical today with another director and says, "Hey, there's Fun Marc!" and keeps walking.

[pause here for a kind of Jim-looks-up-at-the-camera moment]

It could be because I provided the entertainment at today's FUN lunch*. I took some pictures of people's coffee mugs, created a game board and held a contest about it. See the board here and here. I was also featured for the comic-relief segment of our staff meeting where - get this - we reviewed evacuation procedures. That's right, miraculous Fun Marc figured out how to make everyday safety precautions a good time. Well, I am a safety captain, so no one should second guess that one.

I'm really not very funny. If I ever try, I'm probably taking unconscious tips from situation comedies circa 1980s. There is no better place to learn textbook comedic timing than from Family Ties and Growing Pains. Today's TV is too fragmented or reality based for that stuff. I digress.

Fun Marc makes me think of Fun Bobby from Friends. I mean, Really?! I'm that fun in the office, so much so that you feel like your coffee might be spiked? And now my boss' boss is plotting with me how to make the Thanksgiving potluck super jam-packed with, you guessed it.

F U N.

Now that I look at it, sometimes at work I'd rather stick to the first two letters of that sentence.

Let's just remember that Fun Bobby really wasn't fun at all. Sort of depressing, actually. But, if coffee mugs and fire drills are where it's at, then invite me to your next party.


*Our administrative assistant says that writing FUN in the Outlook invite is what makes it so.

palin sports a donkey scarf

Explanation please? via Newsweek online.

MoveOn gets out the vote: One step too far?

Hmmm, I get the point, but kind of disagree with the whole scare tactic thing. Anyone else receive this video? How did you feel? I feel like I'm not so interested in MoveOn just now.

UPDATE: Of course I could have a little fun with this. Imagine the church sign saying something like, All Gods children welcome, except Judas Iscariot.

Ahoy me hearties! It's a bottle o' messages!

Arrr, me found a treasure in Facebook! I changed me language settin to Pirate!

[extrarrr credit: click the "pirates" label and spy on every time i've blogged on pirates, arrrr]