A personal story in the Times talks about the impact of having a severely sick or injured child on parents. There isn’t any data, only personal stories, but startled me into recognition of my own condition. I still sit upright in bed in the middle of the night recalling the five seconds when I turned [...]

I rolled a stop sign last month and I received a well deserved ticket.
When it came time to pay the ticket, I elected to pay an additional $32 to the City and County of San Francisco and $20 to online provider of traffic school in this jurisdiction. This allows take a course and a test. [...]

Sitting around, waiting for an event to start, two new units of measurement occurred to me.
Name50 - Size of the group required for the given Name to have a 50% chance of being first on an alphabetical listing.
Late50 - Size of the group required for an event having an equal chance of being postponed because [...]

“Your Call Is Important to Us”
Why is it that whenever I hear those words on an automated voicemail system, I react viscerally?
If my call were important to the recipient, there would be a live person saying, “Hello,” and asking me how they could help me. That’s what you do when a call is important. You [...]

My pockets and back felt a sigh of relief last year when I started carrying a jimi wallet. Much less than a half inch thick and I can carry 5 bills and 5 cards in my front pocket.
I may be replacing the jimi with this paper wallet. I made one in about five minutes and [...]