The honeymoon is over. I brought my frozen pizza and can of black beans home from the grocery store, turned on the oven, opened the pizza, and spread a little Sriracha "Cock" Sauce around on it. Then, I went to look for the can opener, so I could open up the frijoles negros and dump 'em on the pizza prior to baking. I looked, and looked, and ( Read more... )

I got a real night's sleep for the first time in about a week, and man oh man, do I feel good! A cough here and there, but that's all that's left of that dreaded flu. No sickness can vanquish me ( Read more... )

I've been sick since last Friday, maybe Saturday, and it's been as bad as I've felt in years. Coughing, sneezing, weird feverishness, too much television (and computer), and very little eating. Why, today's diet of a bowl of cereal, a bowl of split-pea soup, and an Entenmann's snack cake was the largest meal I've eaten since Saturday - by half ( Read more... )

Ahh... my new house. Woke up in the early afternoon, took a long and much-needed shower. Walked to the grocery store for milk, oj, and cereal (Kashi; not Good Friends, but 40% of my daily fiber nonetheless...). Grabbed a large coffee from the bodega, the name of which is Cristina's*. Checked the mail - the man renting my old bedroom mailed me a ( Read more... )

( Trevor Hoffman's a Brewer now. He's gonna be our closer, for one year and $6 million. Chuck just wrote a nice long entry about it. Here are my thoughts... )

If you are a man, and you own fewer than two flannel shirts, then you are not to be trusted. I hope that this clears everything up.

I haven't made a New Year's Resolution in well over a decade. In years prior, I have always been content enough with the situation as it persists to regard grand pronouncements elicited on Amateur Night as a little too symbolic for me - no meat on the sandwich. If I'm going to change, I'll change on MY terms ( Read more... )

On New Year's Eve, I saw the coolest private fireworks display I've ever seen in my life. It wasn't the biggest. It wasn't the loudest. But it was the craziest by far ( Read more... )

Well, tomorrow afternoon, I'll say goodbye to the Midwest again. And, tomorrow afternoon, I will probably have all my flights through Minneapolis and Milwaukee delayed by snow, just like every other single flight I've ever booked in a winter month this year ( Read more... )

NOT ENOUGH TIME IN MILWAUKEE ( Read more... )