Did you ever see the episode of Married With Children that features a guest appearance by Anthrax? It's pretty funny. http://metalinquisition.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-dinner-with-anthrax.html

While driving through South Carolina a few days ago I stopped at a gas station to get some pop and a candy. When I was walking up to the door I saw a girl, who looked like she was about 18, coming out of the store wearing this t-shirt:

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It's that special time of year here in Illinois, when a certain foul species called the buffalo gnat emerges from wherever they come from in order to fulfill their destiny. For some of them, this destiny involves biting any exposed skin on any mammal they should encounter, which is often me. Others seem to be seeking Gnat Nirvana, which is ( Read more... )

Prosaic news: I am working in Illinois again, back in Jacksonville. Jacksonville is still boring, but work currently is. This is because we are working in picturesque Pike County, which is located on the western edge of Illinois, between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers but a bit north of their actual confluence. This area was prime real ( Read more... )

Remember a couple weeks ago when I described my trip to Wichita in a car without a working heater? That was awful. So awful that I wish to forget it. That said, that trip pales in comparison to what I went through last week. Frankly, just thinking about it makes not want to leave the house ( Read more... )

Since I last posted, I have attended an orientation and training session, and then been chosen to start working on a crew in Oklahoma. So I had to leave the nice hotel in the thriving and thoroughly modern city of Wichita and and check into a gross motel in the gross town that is Poncas City ( Read more... )

I am in Wichita now, but the trip here was absolutely harrowing ( Read more... )

I hope you all had a lovely Groundhog Day. I got to spend mine outdoors on a day that was so cold and miserable that even my rugged constitution was tested. But, I found a point! Or at least the lower two-thirds of one. It was totally rad and made me temporarily forget the incipient frostbite in my fingers and toes ( Read more... )

Well, maybe. Uncertainty rules in CRM. I never know what is going to happen. Days like today--which is to say days in which the ground is frozen solid and the wind chill is below zero--aren't good days for archaeology. Getting paid even though I didn't do any so-called "work" is pretty cool from my perspective, but it makes little sense from an ( Read more... )

1. The other I went and read a whole lot of my old Livejournal entries. Any of you ever do that? I'm not talking about reading my two-year-old entries, I'm talking about your own. My old entries tended to alternate between making me laugh and making me totally cringe ( Read more... )