Lisa needed a notebook.  She was on her way out the door to a chiropractic seminar and had nothing to take notes on ( Read more... )

It was the coldest night all year on Saturday, but that was sort of the point.  Any camping trip eventually turns into obsessive fire-building, so on this particular trip all the burning and so forth actually was useful.

We camped along a creek named Wildcat in a national forest.  We wented for a hike, but ended up just following a deerpath along ( Read more... )

1.  Lucky Number Slevin: I liked this movie overall.  Josh Hartnett is versatile, never thought I'd say it.  Lucy Liu is cute as a button.  Everyone was good in this movie, and there were lots of them.  Dang violent.  I started counting bodies early on but all the flashback sequences made it hard to keep track of who was just being killed from a ( Read more... )

My pot-bellied pig, Burger, locked himself in my home office this morning while I slept.  He pulled a bunch of stuff off a bookshelf, chewed the corners off some papers, and knocked over a floor lamp ( Read more... )

1. The Painted Veil: Ed Norton and Naomi Watts can act like no one's business, but the movie is mundane. Story and plot were detached, and never the twain did meet.
• Nicole Kidman was originally supposed to play the cheating wife with the too-early change of heart, but Naomi Watts ended up co-producing the picture.
2. Fearless: Wonderful fight scenes but ( Read more... )

Last night, I was very thirsty. So I made a big old glass of chocolate milk.  Then I poured the rest of the Irish cream into it. 
Then, since you can't have chocolate milk and Baileys without Kahlua, I splashed summa dat in there as well.

So okay, it was "Dark" chocolate syrup.

And okay, it was Kahlua "Especial", with twice the alcohol content of the ( Read more... )

It was a very nice day for a walk when Sophia's nose started to itch.

Sophia was so busy enjoying her walk, she hardly noticed the nose itch until she had walked all the way from the bus stop to Mr Buttitch's ice cream stand.  Mr Buttitch was scratching his behind.  He saw Sophia coming and waved. "Hey, Sophia!" he called.  "It's a very nice day for ( Read more... )

One thing that seems like it would be both tricky and unappreciated is making clothes from scratch.

"Look at my scrubs.  Pretty nice, eh?"

"I have seen scrubs before.  Literally thousands of times.  I am not even going to rotate my head the few degrees necessary to look at you or your scrubs head on.  I am so underwhelmed by your scrubs that I just ( Read more... )

I have been losing weight bit by bit here.  It's nice.

I'm down to size 38 pants, which in theory designates the number of inches around my waist.  If I was perfectly circular on the horizontal, I'd be about a foot in diameter.  I like that.

One note about pants sizes; they are bull.  They represent not inches but rather some system of measure ( Read more... )

Bowen gave me the words, God gave me the talent, I give you a new comic:

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