On my way back to my house from the Spanish house I saw a path of red ants crossing the sidewalk that leads up to the Russian house. There must have been hundreds or maybe even thousands of them in total, because the line (it wasn't a single file line, more just a mob of them all going the same direction maybe three inches across, but I can't ( Read more... )

The copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from the library that I am reading smells just like the old 1995 or 1996 or something Guiness Book of World Records that I used to have, before they used to be huge hardcover things. I haven't looked at that book in probaly 8-10 years. It's weird the kind of memories that smells can remind me of.

I can hear kids outside, playing or something. They sound no older than 7 or 8, maybe as young as 4. It is 1:30 AM. I have been hearing them for at least half of an hour now. This weirds me out, since they probably should have been in bed hours ago. And I am going to sleep before some kids who may be one fifth of my age ( Read more... )

Featured in this months Northwest Airlines something-or-other newsletter as a getaway destination was Cedar Rapids. Here's what they had to say about it ( Read more... )

Today I took a bike ride, something I haven't done in a while. On my way back I decided to stop off and spend some time at the pirate park by the river. I got on a swing and after a few minutes a kid who looked about 4 years old walked over to the other one and was too short to get on it but swung it back and forth a bit. I didn't want to kick ( Read more... )

Oh man guys, you all have to check this out. The article is titled "Snakes On A Plane, For Real." So read it now. Also, check out the official website if you haven't already. www.snakesonaplane.com. For some reason I never went to it before today, and it's pretty awesome as well.

My bike is a piece of crap. I rode it to work the other day for the first time in probably a year, and remembered why I never rode it before. It looks pretty awesome, but in reality it's terrible. The seat is uncomfortable, it's rusting, it won't shift so it's stuck in third gear (and it's only a three speed to begin with) so I can't really go ( Read more... )

My house is weird. The floors were either in the process of being refinished or had just gotten refinished when I was there, so most of the furniture was gone and things were in boxes in the basement or garage. My room had three pieces of furniture in it: a dressing table covered with things of Gertie's, a wadrobe filled with Gertie's clothes, ( Read more... )

The fog outside right now is so thick that I can hardly tell that there is a street half a block from my building in two directions. I couldn't see Church from College and Clary at all. There was no way to tell whether or not the Peace House was still standing on my walk home from Gregory's room this evening. It's beautiful though, and it fit ( Read more... )

I just drove to O'Hare and back. It's weird how it doesn't feel like it took that long. I was gone something like 3 hours though. Also, one of the oases didn't have any gas but premium, which was lame because my gas light was on and I had to pay the 3.20 or whatever for a couple gallons. My bill-thingy was over 6 bucks for less than 2 gallons ( Read more... )