Written on Wednesday, the 9th of July, 2008 at 1:16 am and was filed under:
Diversions,
Comics,
Onestop
Lovin’ summer? I had no idea! When those good folks at Onestop ruined my spring, then unintentionally freed up my summer from the onerous task of going to any classes. Wow. Instead, I get to read books, watch Doctor Who, and completely hose up my sleep schedule on three day weekends. Maybe that last one isn’t so good, but it has kept me reasonably sane while I work and work on secret projects. You might even catch me smiling from time to time.
Written on Tuesday, the 8th of July, 2008 at 12:56 am and was filed under:
Diversions
Sarah and I watched the last episode of season four of the new Doctor Who tonight. Well, not the last episode, since there will be a Christmas special, but that’s ages away. Then, next season, there will likely be only four specials. If the Doctor pulls another decade-long disappearing act (or worse, has another run in with Eric Roberts), I just don’t know if I could take it.
All I know is that I’m getting Cybermen for Christmas! YES!
Written on Wednesday, the 25th of June, 2008 at 10:10 am and was filed under:
Family
Noah is currently taking karate — presumably so he can fight zombies hand to hand. The other day he made the following request:
Mom, can we drive through the cemetery? I want to see if there are any zombies.
For his birthday Lisa and Stan laid out some cash for a party at Pump It Up in Plymouth. Pump It Up is the bouncy castle headquarters, with two rooms full of inflatable jumpy time fun. They also had a party room with tiled walls and a drain in the floor. After the kids smeared cake and Cheez-its everywhere they just turned on the firehose to clean up.
Written on Sunday, the 22nd of June, 2008 at 11:52 pm and was filed under:
Photography,
Music
If you know me, you know that I love sweaty outdoor fairs, where mini donuts and cold beer flow like water. I went to Rock the Garden with Sarah, but that is not what this post is about — no, this post is about me conning Paul into going to Grand Old Day with me to see Doomtree.
Written on Tuesday, the 17th of June, 2008 at 7:39 pm and was filed under:
The Big Movement
It’s 11:59 on Radio Free America; this is Uncle Sam, with music, and the truth until dawn. Right now I’ve got a few words for some of our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone: “the chair is against the wall, the chair is against the wall”, “john has a long mustache, john has a long mustache”. It’s twelve o’clock, American, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there, on, or behind the line, this is your song.
Written on Sunday, the 15th of June, 2008 at 9:46 pm and was filed under:
Diversions
I got an email from Southwest Airlines confirming my flight from Denver to Las Vegas and back. Since I don’t remember booking that flight, I changed it to get me from Minneapolis to Denver to check out the zombie wall that I had installed there. Okay, instead I looked up the phone number for the person whose email I had received, called them, and asked if I had gotten their email by mistake. Yes, I had. I then asked if they had recently gotten a new retaining wall. Sarah peed the bed laughing, especially since his answer was yes.
Written on Wednesday, the 28th of May, 2008 at 12:19 am and was filed under:
Diversions,
Photography
It’s been a while since my last post about my long-ago vacation with Sarah. It seems like it has been a whole month since I was happy and frolicking on the mean streets of SF. Let’s examine our memories and take a trip back to those halcyon days of yore, when men were men, and women were also men, and — wait — no — uh…
We awoke on the Saturday of our vacation possessed of a ravenous hunger, to be satisfied only by a delightful hole in the wall taco joint not a block’s walk from our hotel.
Written on Monday, the 26th of May, 2008 at 3:37 pm and was filed under:
Diversions
Thanks to the miracles of modern chemistry, my knee has gotten almost completely better: there is no constant, stabbing pain — just soreness when I use it and a general weakness when I try to use it while carrying things. I’m throwing out my ibuprofen in favor of naproxen and acetaminophen. Hooray!
Written on Friday, the 23rd of May, 2008 at 11:38 pm and was filed under:
Diversions
At the advice of my mother, I called the nurse line. At the advice of the nurse line, I had Sarah take me to urgent care, where the ibuprofen wore off just in time for the doctor to torture me. I was flat on my back on the exam table with a white cloth draped over my special purpose.
“Does this hurt?” she asked while picking my leg up at the ankle.
“Yes! That hurts!”
This went on for some time.
“How about this?” she asked while folding my leg behind my head.
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”
“It’s just tendonitis. You’re fine,” she said.
I sat up and shook on the table.
I’m finally home with naproxen and acetaminophen. For those people who worry about such things, I asked both the doctor and the pharmacist about their interactions and amounts. For those of you who would take joy in it, I’m still in a largish amount of pain.
I no longer feel like someone is prying my knee apart with a Buick.
Written on Friday, the 23rd of May, 2008 at 6:28 pm and was filed under:
Diversions
My knee is getting worse. Soon I will need a cane, then crutches, then a scamp, then Sarah will catheterize me and strap me into a wheelchair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01UIB2X-WK0
