My colleagues and I were on a call this morning, and the people we were meeting with didn't show up on time. Our virtual chat channel was going all over the place while we waited, and Steve referenced Fall Out Boy. I mentioned that I'd seen them back in 2007 on a bill that included The Academy Is..., Cobra Starship and Paul Wall. I then ironically ( Read more... )

In the wake of losing my job, I cancelled a bunch of subscriptions, including my CrossFit membership. Instead I've been rucking, which basically means going for a long walk down to the lake with a weighted backpack to make it more challenging. Since my daughter currently sleeps in, she no longer joins me, which leaves me plenty of time to think ( Read more... )

For many years I have had the same recurring thought whenever I'm building my grocery list, so I've decided to dump it here in the hopes of excising it from my brain, or at least entertaining you.

The thought in question has to do with the movie Groundhog Day. If I woke up every day in the same house with the same exact pantry, how many days in a ( Read more... )

As anyone who has raised a baby in the United States knows, a nearly omnipresent feature of books for toddlers is books that are set on a farm. Sometimes these books focus on one specific animal (ex: Gossie the Goslin, Millie Waits for the Mail) or a few animals (Click, Clack, Moo, Giggle, Giggle, QuackHowever, it is far more common that these ( Read more... )

An idea that I've had for a series here on LiveJournal is to take each of the baseball games I've ever attended and examine the box score to see what notable things happened at that game. While I certainly know the big highlight items already, it might be kind of fun to dig in and identify things like "Hall of Famers seen", "MLB Debuts seen" (I ( Read more... )

Our anniversary also ended a year in which I think I sent more mail out than in any other year of my life. From August 23, 2020 to August 23, 2021, we had plenty of excuses to send mail to our friends.

- We got married. For the most part we did our wedding announcements electronically, but we sent 200 wedding announcement postcards to supplement ( Read more... )

My favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is Last Action Hero. I realize that's not a popular viewpoint, but for me it's the rare movie where every joke hits perfectly. Back when it came out my father read the review and said "hey, that sounds fun, why don't we go see that?" and I can count on one hand the number of times that ever happened ( Read more... )

My birthday is coming up, and I have this theory where on your birthday you get to give one order that will be followed. So here's my order: On my birthday, you should take the day off and eat lots of food with as many of your friends and family as you can reasonably have near you. I expect you to all do this on my birthday, which is this Thursday ( Read more... )

In the last decade, a great many movies have been turned into Broadway musicals. This has been a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, you've gotten legitimately great musicals like The Lion King and The Producers. On the other hand, you've gotten tripe such as Fame and The Wedding Singer. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Spamalot, and ( Read more... )

228(pw)/215. We'll chalk this up to random fluctuations caused by microchanges in earth's magnetic field. Or something.

There is nothing quite like walking down the street with $20 worth of quarters in each pocket. Jingle, jingle. The things I do for clean clothes.

Check out The first sentence of this Ann Coulter column. I like the ( Read more... )