Author Archives: Arlan

Homewrecker

Today I kept my boss from going home to put his kids to bed. Yep, Work First. That’s me. He walked back into our work area with one of the bloodhounds from accounting. (I call him a bloodhound because he is very diligent at follow up and refuses to be brushed aside with vague assurances. Darn him to heck.)  They Read More


Generic Weekend of Doom

Today I did what I was supposed to do: I took a practice GMAT. According to the practice test scoring, I got 99th percentile in Verbal but something much lower in Quantitative–forties I think. I only got about 2/3 of the way through the questions. Total was 83rd percentile if I recall. It didn’t make my weekend feel longer or Read More


Footnotes

A couple of links I may want to revisit with commentary later, saved for myself right here on my own blog: Brant: Will God Protect My Kids? and Breakfast and Honesty. Matthew Paul Turner: Spiritual Abuse Must Stop (with the two part story linked in the lead).


What hath labor wrought?

Today I finally resolved to study more for my upcoming GMAT. I was about to get underway, only looking for a notepad, when the whole family spontaneously organized into a mighty Trundle. Owen must have been pleased out of his mind. I declined. I would have gladly gone if I had already been planning to trundle on Saturday, but instead Read More