Over the past few months my union and my employer have been engaged in increasingly bitter contract negotiations. It seems like our employer wants to make cutbacks everywhere – including insurance. Nobody has said anything about xray specs, yet…
Archive for October, 2010

10 gallon hat hair.
October 25, 2010
If you learn to juggle…
October 22, 2010
Cavemen also went clubbing on the weekend.
October 21, 2010
Sometimes it’s not “thinking outside the box.”
October 18, 2010
He knew he’d forgotten something…
October 13, 2010I enjoy driving. Sometimes I enjoy it too much and forget where I am supposed to be going. When we were first married, my wife naturally took it upon herself to help redirect my attention if I was in danger of missing a turn. She would tap on her window and say, “don’t forget we are going to the store/church/work/etc.” As time went on, this routine was shortened to a simple window tap.
She would tap and I would turn.
I wasn’t even aware of the habit until one day we did it with a passenger in the car.
She tapped, I turned and the passenger laughed until they were sick.

His mustache can’t be stopped.
October 11, 2010
It was a bit late to worry about repotting.
October 7, 2010This drawing is based on the very first comic I ever drew. I found it a few years ago on an old, crumpled sheet of lined notebook paper. I was apparently in second grade at the time (as evidenced by my second grade teacher’s name in the upper right corner of the paper). The wording was slightly different, but the idea was the same. There were three other “comics” drawn on the page. This was by far the best of the lot.

And he had only been a week from retirement.
October 5, 2010I have often heard recently retired folks talk about how they are busier now then they’ve ever been. They say it as if they are somehow suffering an ill fate.
???
If you are retired and you are looking for some sympathy about that situation, please don’t look at me.
I’m too busy to talk because I still have to work.

His belt buckle is epic.
October 4, 2010
He stubbornly insisted his computer was a laptop.
October 1, 2010My brother is an artist, a student, and an all-round great guy. He also experiences autism. One result of this fact is that he can be resistant to change. Recently his computer died. It was a hardware failure that affected several components. I could have fixed it, but the computer was already fairly old so I thought it would be a good time for a new machine.
My brother did not.
With some time and effort, I convinced him that a new computer would be the best choice. He spent time picking out a system with all the features and abilities he was interested in. The end result was that my brother is the proud new owner of a very snazzy laptop.
The next step? Now I’m working on convincing him he can use it somewhere besides the computer desk.