My Great Big Christmas Post

As a newly-minted curmudgeon, I have been doing my best to avoid Christmas whenever and wherever possible, but it’s pretty difficult. People expect you to be in the holiday spirit, when in truth, I’m fresh out. At work they have all the decorations up, and in my office, the OpCenter at Blue Sky Mines LLC, [...]

Many Adults Long To Be Children

I say this because this week, the Hallowe’en decorations have gone up in the halls of Blue Sky Mines.
In years past, a workplace might have seen one or two of those Hallmark cardboard jack-o-lanterns taped to a bulletin board. Maybe a plastic jack-o-lantern filled with penny candy next to the copier. Not any more. Not where [...]

My Big VP Debate Post

I’ll miss the debate because I will be sequestered in the subterranean windowless OpCen at Blue Sky Mines. I have my DVR set up to record the debate, as well as Pittsburgh at No. 10 South Florida on ESPN.
Tonight’s contest carries with it great risk, since the 3-1 Panthers are unranked, received no votes in [...]

Moby on the Weather Channel

So last night I’m in the subterranean opcen at Blue Sky Mines, and we’re watching the Weather Channel, (which is all we’re allowed to watch, similar to the infamous telescreens in George Orwell’s 1984.) And they’re showing weather maps of different parts of the country, and the music is God Moving Over The Face Of The [...]

US Department of Transportation: PERVERTS

Yesterday at Blue Sky Mines, we received an email from Human Resources about new procedures for urinalysis from the federal Department of Transportation (Blue Sky Mines is an interstate pipeline company and thus subject to DOT regs.) The new regs are aimed at people suspected of gaming or trying to cheat on a urinalysis test:
New Direct [...]

Crazy Raspberry Ants Attack!

Crazy raspberry ants are on the march in Texas, and they are raising havoc with electronics and computers and anything else they can get into.
I am not making this up:
Billions of electronic-eating ‘crazy rasberry ants’ invade Texas
It sounds like the plot of a farfetched science fiction movie. Unfortunately for the residents of Texas, it is [...]

Blue Sky Mines Inc.

In the past I have written about stuff that happens where I work. We are a giant pipeline company with assets in the US and Canada, moving all sorts of liquids and gases, including crude oil, gasoline, and natural gas. We are ginormous. I won’t use the real name of the company, but I will [...]