Try to Remember, the Kind of September...

Mnemonic • \nih-MAW-nick\ • Adjective - Assisting or designed to assist memory

Mnemonic device
Password protected account
Forgot secret word

All By Myself...

Hermetic • \herr-MET-tick\ • Adjective - 1: relating to or characterized by occultism or abstruseness: recondite 2a: airtight b: impervious to external influence c: recluse, solitary

Lone, Hermetic Frank

Lived thus not by his choice

Garlic was his vice

Bonneville Power's Transmission System ... Firmly Rooted in the Region

Hands off the Pacific Northwest electricity transmission system...

Empirical • \imp-PEER-ick-kull\ • Adjective - 1: originating in or based on observation or experience 2: relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory 3: capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment

Don’s normative call
Ignores empirical fact
Northwest system works!

Thinking Inside the Box - The Cube Farm Edition

Cube Farm ● \KYOOB – farm \ ● Noun – An office in which employees work in cubicles. 

Gray carpet, gray walls
Life in organic cube farm
Are walls edible?

Hanging Out for the Weekend - The Hammock Edition

Abrogate • \AB-ruh-gayt\ • Verb - 1: to abolish by authoritative action: annul 2: to treat as nonexistent

Thank God it’s Friday
Abrogate weekend yard work
Time for relaxing

Take Two Tablets and Call Me in the Morning - Ten Rules to Live By

Decalogue • \DECK-uh-log\ • Noun – 1: capitalized: Ten Commandments 2: a basic set of rules carrying binding authority

Here’s My Decalogue
God said to trembling Moses
Now, use it wisely