You might have noticed the duplicate entries problem I had posting from my Sidekick while in the hospital… Apparently the 3G cellular band interferes with some sort of defibrillator machine or something, because when I tried to submit my post, the geezer next door crashed. (That’s ‘hospital’ for “beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep”.) After a few minutes of “ ( Read more... )

I’m at the hospital visiting D after her knee surgery where I just learned something valuable.

If after being told “no food or drink after 12am,” you show up to your 10am surgery appointment carrying a grande latte, they will send you home and make fun of you in front of semi-conscious patients.

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We have a couple new additions to our household, upping us to a grand total of 6 pets. Last week we went to the humane society to look at kittens, but ended up coming home with a nice older cat instead.

Here’s Lady Isabella Meowsalot McFluffington:

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Last week as I was mowing my lawn, my nose kept stumbling upon the smell of decay. I’d be mowing along when all of a sudden I’d get a really overpowering whiff, which would cause me to stop mowing and start sniffing vigorously around the yard trying to find whatever it was that had died back there. Ultimately I gave up and continued mowing, but ( Read more... )

Here’s a nifty little .htaccess file trick for all you who are taking advantage of web hosting:

So you use Gravatar and want to include yours in things that you make later on, but either hate having to look up the big long encrypted gibberish string associated with your image, or didn’t even know you could do that?

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Since my last experience at Blockbuster Video, we’ve been doing all of our Netflix overflow renting from Hollywood Video. Having exhausted our allotment of Netflix videos quickly due to illness and laziness, we decided to hit our local Hollywood yesterday. While wandering around the New Release section, we started to get a bit weirded out, due in ( Read more... )

Finally! I’ve got jury duty!

I’m pretty stoked about this. I for one have seen enough 1 hour dramas-not to mention the Pauly Shore documentary on the subject-to know how things typically go during juror deliberation. See, the prosecution does a pretty good job of smearing the character of the wrong-side-of-the-tracks youngster who is on trial, ( Read more... )

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Know what drives me nuts?

Television advertisements. Er sorry, I wasn’t done. Specifically I mean television advertisements for chains that don’t have a presence in my area.

If I have to see one more ad showing me how awesome the food at Sonic looks, or the sweet succulent meals available at Boston Market, I think I’m going to up and move.

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I’ve got to either jot myself more descriptive notes in my little moleskine notebook, or stop doing it altogether.

I have absolutely no idea what “Einstein / Zombies” means, and trying to come up with a scenario that would be worthy of the taking of such a note is driving me nuts.

There sure a lot of zombie things in this notebook though…

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