"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

- Umberto Eco

Okay, so Sara, Dave, and one of my friends (also named David) went and tried out the Heart Attack Grill (and Diet Center). It was a slightly-family friendly burger joint unabashedly making good food that's not good for you. In big red letters, on the door, it says "The contents of this restaurant are bad for your health."


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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."

- John F. Kennedy

No, this doesn't mean Hell has frozen over. We've actually travelled to Prescott (pronounced 'Press-Kit' by locals) to visit her mom, Wendy. It snowed here last night, and when we woke up this morning, everything was covered in clean white snow. Last night, I went out as it was snowing a little bit- it was beautiful. I'm a big fat dude, and I have ( Read more... )

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Okay, so Sara and I are moving tomorrow ( Read more... )

"If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way."

- Captain Edward Murphy
(Commonly Bastardized to form 'Murphy's Law'- "If anything can go wrong, it will.")

Okay, so Sara and I are moving (again). We'll be in sunny Phoenix AZ, enjoying the kitty litter state and everything that it has to offer ( Read more... )

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"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the shadow was only a small and passing thing: ( Read more... )