This is year 2 of amazing summers for me. Last year I was able to shift my summer hours to start early in the morning and therefore finish my workday when most people are going to lunch. That, in combination with a County Parks pass, has resulted in long days at the beach and plenty of fun in the sun. My youngest daughter appears to be half-fish and loves the water so I always have a beach buddy.     I’ve been amusing myself by making sculptures at the beach.     Pretty sweet, right? I should point out, if not evident from the pictures, that these cairns are in fact very tiny. Most are only 2 cm at most. Despite the National Park Service’s advisement against creating them, I’ve been making them all over the beach.     I’m sure some fascist park ranger has been destroying them after I leave because they are no longer there the...

We all work with psychos, whether we know it or not. Occasionally they will out themselves, but usually they will just fly under the radar. We have one person who likes scaring people with toy mice and spiders. The amount of time this person invests in this is truly inspiring. They instinctually, or through study, have figured out the most effective methods for scaring people. For example, while relieving myself in a shared bathroom I noticed a roll of toilet paper had fallen from the stack of extras. I bent down to pick it up. Right as I was about to grab the toilet paper roll I saw a large black spider. It was perfectly positioned so I couldn’t see it until I was bent over and a little off balance. I jumped, smacked my head against the wall but luckily didn’t fall over. It was a plastic toy spider but I didn’t know that. My lizard brain reacted and I’m luck I...