When I was a kid, one of the awesomer parts of Christmas was the week between Christmas and New Year’s when you sit around the house and play with all your new toys. If I had known that years later, in 2006, I would have to get up at six in the morning the day [...]
Archive for December, 2006
19 Dec
I’ll just take the 10 lords-a-leaping, thanks
It’s Christmas all over again, and I’ll be taking a blog holiday. That is, until tomorrow when something hi-larous happens and I can’t wait to write all about it. Before I sign off for a few days, I want to address a problem many people face this holiday season. Namely, being unwillingly forced to hear [...]
18 Dec
Shaken, not stirred
After work on Saturday, I popped down to the city and did a little bar-hopping with friends. Feeling quite peckish around midnight, we ventured over to a bar in the village that was known to serve foodstuffs. Or at least, it served food in a previous incarnation, many moons ago. As soon as we entered [...]
15 Dec
I’m used to good old-fashioned homestyle Spanish cooking. If I eat this I’ll be puking.
I just saw an article that 160 people fell ill from eating at Olive Garden this past weekend. My first thought was, “only 160 people?” UPDATE: I guess my first thought was accurate because now there are at least 100 more sick people.
15 Dec
The kind of men you attract when you complain about "the kids these days."
Last night, like every Thursday night in the kickball off-season, I went to meet some friends for trivia night. When we got to the bar, we arranged the tables to make way for our way huge trivia team, got comfortable, and ordered a round of drinks. As we were waiting for the drinks our waitress [...]
14 Dec
I be up in the gym just working on my fitness
If you told the me of a year and a half ago that today I would be living in the Hudson Valley, driving a car around and listening to top 40 music on my own volition, I would have laughed in your face. A David Byrne listening, They Might Be Giants loving New Yorker such [...]
12 Dec
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, Wie treu sind deine Blatter!
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum,Wie true sind deine Blatter!Du grunst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit,Nein, auch in Winter, wenn est schneit.O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum,Wie treu sind deine Blatter!* *see English translation at the bottom Christmas time is finally here, and after eight months of living on a non-operational Christmas Tree farm, it is finally time to harvest [...]
11 Dec
Unsupervised, I hit my head
Last night before going to bed I knocked my head on the sharp edge of one of the steep sloping beams in the ceiling of my bedroom. I heard what could almost be called a beautiful reverberation in my skull and then sharp, painful pain on the spot where I knocked it. Because I was [...]
8 Dec
Know thine enemy
The remnants of our kickball team have come together for Thursday night for trivia at the Hyde Park Brewery. Trivia night is becoming one of the highlights of my week because I’m a lot better at dispensing useless knowledge than catching pop flys or tagging people out with a giant red rubber ball or basically [...]
7 Dec
Sweet merciful crap, my car!
Sometimes it feels like the world is trying to tell you “you can’t have nice things.” Or, perhaps in the past, I did something to anger a local bird. Because when that bird hear that I had a new car, it saved about three days’ worth of poop. And as soon as it was ready, [...]
