I played a game of Ticket to Ride today. It was the first time that I’d seen it in a while. The box was covered in some fancy art for its 15th anniversary. The board folded out to a size quite a big larger than normal. I didn’t come in last. What time is dinner?…
Stories of every possible kind are exhausted in the unwritten. The characters, the plots, the settings are all stuck inside and swimming around the infinite pool of consciousness. When you read the beginning of a book, a multitude of stories start to complete the one that you’ve just begun. For example, a book that begins…
My review of Kellogg’s Special K Strawberry Pastry Crisps A pack of strawberry Pastry Crisps comes with two pastries. Each pastry, a strawberry filling surrounded by a slightly crunchy dough and drizzled with vanilla icing, contains 50 calories. I thought that the crisps were very crispy, and the strawberry flavor was pretty flavorful. Overall, I…
Do you have the big baseball homerun power? Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash What is a big baseball homerun? Sometimes, people play sports like big baseball homerun. When they told me about the bat sport, I thought, “NICE!”. I had always wanted to watch those little buggers zip around eating stuff. But then they…
Today I read one million words. It was difficult to get started. When one has the task of a million words set before him, he must process the sheer effort and time that will be required of him before beginning. I never had much interest in reading that many words. Before this morning, I never…
The second day begins. The big zombie knocked again. We all were so scared. She was the CFO of a large summer camp and every time she came to visit the office, it made us scared. I turned to the left. The zombie whiteboard started to speak, and it said: “Please do not erase”. Please…
The pioneering story of being bored at work. The time is 8:48 am. The office is a crisp 68 degrees, icy A/C wind blowing straight onto your khakied legs. “There’s no water left in the cooler” There’s no water left in the cooler. The crunchy tones of a 2014 Coldplay song, played from an ancient…