Professor Hobo

Now that Christmas has passed I can write more freely about the shopping process.  In particular, the process of shopping for my wife.  See, while Santa might give parents a break, childless married men are left to fend for themselves in shopping for their wives.  Worse, without children we’re expected to devote extra thought to [...]

Christmas shopping is the worst.  It’s a slow, drawn out death by degrees.  It’s a solid month of trolling through malls and web pages searching for that one certain gift that won’t make someone resent you for a whole more year.  Bah humbug.
“But surely you can see that you’ve lost the true meaning of Christmas,” [...]

I bought a car this past weekend.  Actually, my wife and I bought a car this past weekend.  But since I rarely drive (except slow on the driveway every Saturday), it is mostly a purchase for her.
The process of buying a car is equivalent to having root canal work done on the back of a [...]

If you have never gone shopping for a washer and dryer go ahead and save yourself the trouble now by turning on the oven, allowing it to heat up, and then dropping the whole thing on the back of your head. That’s sort of like the first store you go to. It gets worse from [...]