The Bar Story Parts One And Two

Two of my favorite tales from a past jobs occurred on the same day in the same bar. Traditionally I tell this story in two parts because it takes a rather dramatic genre shift about half way through and only one half is relevant to the audience at hand, but y’all are queer techies, so both it is 😁.

That time I ended up in New Jersey for five years

As my (second) senior year of college was winding down I felt pretty good about my future. I had a month and a half to go before my final set of college finals, I had just gotten married, things were good. My wife had another year of school still, this gave me plenty of time […]

That time Izzy went to her senior prom

Once upon a time I was an awkward nerdy boy, not cool in anyway and definitely not taking care of my body. I blundered through high school, a complete romantic failure; an incel in the modern parlance. Spring of my senior year came, and that meant prom season, this was it, my last pretense to […]