The Modern Log

Today I left work an hour and a half late (nothing shocking), and when I got home I spent another hour doing other work things. And then I got an e-mail that said I have a meeting that starts at the time when I’m supposed to leave work, PS I needed to leave an hour [...]

Today I am going to that Elton John concert that’s all over the news. I’m so lucky, right? I don’t know where my tickets are, but I’m hoping for my regular hockey seats. Not because they’d be great concert seats (they wouldn’t) but because they would be so familiar. And magical!
Speaking of hockey seats, [...]

Did Simon Cowell just say he didn’t know “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying”? What? Can he be fired? How do you not know that song? How do you not love Gerry and the Pacemakers? Recognize, Cowell.

I was just now watching this week’s “Saturday Night Live” and it had “Deep House Dish”. Really? I can’t imagine that anyone likes that sketch but me (I do love it), and that was its sixth time. Perhaps this is how people who like “The Falconer” feel. Does anyone really like “The Falconer”?

My stepfather bet me $10 that Boston would win the St. Patrick’s Day Bruins/Rangers game.
“I’ve always loved the Bruins,” he said. “And the Devils.” He lies. He’s a Rangers fan. He does it just to drive me crazy. The other day he called me as a representative of the Chris Simon Fan Club. He’s a [...]

This may be the best video ever.
You’re welcome.

I have a new favorite song! Yay!
If you told me my new favorite song would be by Albert Hammond Jr., probably I would kick you, or at the very least think badly of you. I would have been so wrong.
This song, it is called “In Transit,” and I listened to it about 65 times in [...]

Days off at work aren’t easy to swing (start your day three hours before everyone else and see how many are jumping at the chance to fill in for you), and I wanted one at a particularly tricky time. So I offered a compromise: I’ll work the first 2/3 of Thursday and and the first [...]