My parents were looking at joining the local indoor, adult cornholing league. Eight weeks of cornholing action. Fun for everyone.
"What?," you ask before your brain reminds you that you don't want to know. Well, you can learn all about good old fashioned corn hole fun at the American Cornhole Association. They have a scoreboard/drink holder, to ( Read more... )

Every year, the folks at Beloit College produce a list of 'facts' known by the incoming class of college freshmen. (I should save these for four years and recycle them as facts about the new hires at work.) It's always interesting to see how the world has changed, even if it makes you feel old. On the other hand, the use of 'always' tend to leave ( Read more... )

1. Make sure the ignition switch on the grill is working BEFORE turning on the gas ( Read more... )

issahla and I did a bunch of gardening today, and I finally have my super spooky blood garden. I have a border of Japanese blood grass, a patch of bloody dock, another of bloody crane's bill, and dragon's blood sedum for ground cover. It's delightfully incarnadine. I have some space left, however, and am looking for some more plants. The garden is in the ( Read more... )

Oh, look, there's a 'puritan' result and I got it.


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If you haven't heard, season 8 has started. I'm not a big fan of phonetically-rendered accents, but otherwise it looks pretty interesting.

After working all afternoon on the basement (L got the final coat of paint on the wall while I built one of the countertop/shelving units) we decided to go to Culver's. We had to shovel the snow that had fallen since I cleared the driveway this morning (4-5 inches) just so we could go there.
Culver's was closed. They blamed the weather.
Damn you,

From the tag attached to the powercord for my halogen work light ( Read more... )

For anyone who was wondering about the basement ( See L's post), the flooding is contained. The parents came up, rented a roto-rooter, and we ran a lint monster out of the house ( Read more... )

So, Misugirl made me a wonderful dinner last night, and we retired to the basement to try out the real fireplace. (The house has an open gas fireplace in the living room, a gas fireplace in a box in the addition, and a wood fireplace in the basement.) We started out with my old yule log, which is a chunk of applewood with candleholders drilled into to, so ( Read more... )