I just saw the X Files Movie

On a scale of 1 to 10 it gave me leukemia

"Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 91% of the general public."

and I *knew* the one I got wrong too....

Try it yourself Pew! Pew!

So I was talking with a friend about skiing in new england and she started to go off about the environment. I described the year we had a tremendous blizzard and she said "when was that" and I said "1999 I think" and she immediately said "but that was before global warming ( Read more... )

by far the high point of this weekend was fixing my tractor. And I don't mean that my weekend is sad and pathetic. On the contrary. It really is great that I fixed it, because the alternative was a trip to the tractor hospital which would be easily $200. Plus, I took off the side panels and hood and front and washed the inside too ( Read more... )

I'm pissed at myself because my bench weight keeps dropping. I was at a solid 240, with a peak one time at 260. Then I dropped back and mixed 240/230, then I was at a steady 230. Friday I couldn't finish 3 sets of 230 grrrrr. I need to be more prepared and consistent. I swear my weekly run is getting harder to do too, and my times are not ( Read more... )

I took a day off today, mostly because I can. You know how that goes ( Read more... )

I probably should have spent a little more time outside today than I did. I got off to a late start and did our usual saturday cleaning albeit with a significant lack of gusto. I wasted a trip out to see someone who I thought would be at the ambulance building but both units were out on call ( Read more... )

Today was voting day in our little democratic town. There is nothing really significant going on. We have no mayor or council, we have 3 Selectmen. I guess that's kinda the same thing as a council ( Read more... )

I don't know jack about theater or great performances, but this has been amazing, what I've seen of it.

I'm equally unqualified to say who deserves awards but holy crap, Paul Giamatti absolutely deserves an award for this.

I really feel bad for people having financial trouble. This poor bastard lost his job and had to trade in his corvette for a Suburban!! And *horrors* they fired their gardner! What a travesty!

Not quite shadenfreude but almost.