Last year I went camping on Memorial day weekend. The experience became known as the trip to the island of Doom. It rained a lot and the temperatures plummeted to below 40 at night ( Read more... )

I am planning to pack up and put away my winter clothes and bring out my summer wardrobe sometime today. Expect a polar vortex tomorrow.

...is coming from New Jersey!

http://nyti.ms/1qejv3YWhen I woke up and smelled something like a fire I thought my neighbors were burning candles or something. Then when I left the house and still smelled it, I thought it was the landfills of Staten Island burning. When I still smelled smoke once I was in the city I thought maybe I'm going crazy or ( Read more... )

...или что случилось в Африке

( disclaimer: contains somewhat x-rated material )

My new ginormous rug has arrived. The incident that caused me to purchase it still haunts me (see http://a-lazy-legend.livejournal.com/112045.html). My internal turmoil formed itself into new words for an old song I've been playing a lot recently. If you know the song, you may find this amusing, if not you may find it disturbing.

( Тот кто раньше с нею был )

Was practicing guitar this evening and my downstairs neighbor once again starts banging on her ceiling and yelling that I don't have carpets. Fact: my living room is 11x18. Fact: my living room rug is 5x8. Technically this does not meet the 85% coverage, so she has a case. The spiteful, bat-shit crazy, bitch-monster harpy has a case ( Read more... )

On my ride to work this morning a couple was standing in front of the doors of the subway car. They stood there for as long as I was on the train. The side of the car on which the doors open on every single stop for most of the train route. As I exited the train on my stop I did NONE of the following (a) shove them with my shoulder, (b) give them a ( Read more... )

It was a beautiful day. And we had great seats to the game. I borrowed a camera with a nice zoomy lens. Got some great pictures (https://plus.google.com/photos/107200851308295967567/albums/5937006430952195121?authkey= ( Read more... )

After a two and a half week long trip I get home and call my mother to update her on my status. I tell her I'm OK, the trip was great, everything went smoothly, lots of fun. She gives the executive summary to my dad:

"Приехала, кушать в доме нечего и уже под нос говорит"

...and been pressing buttons like a monkey trying to type


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