Today I drove in front of a kindred spirit, a fellow Roadway Vigilante. One of my super-peeves are people who can't drive worth shit, and I try to do my best to enforce the rules of traffic while on the road, whenever I can. Like, if it's safe, I'll sometimes prevent super-speeding assholes from passing me or merging into my lane on the highway ( Read more... )

This might be a tad gross ( Read more... )

Today was an easy day in Classical. Our individual competency was just to make pate a choux, which is a very versatile cooked dough that is used in, among other things, eclairs and cream puffs. I made a few profiteroles filled with a spinach and cheese mousse that I just kinda made up. It was really good, and Chef Grund loved it. I didn't even ( Read more... )

After hanging out with Greg and Jeannie on Thursday, I brought a bunch of stuff down to Shap's house from Allentown, then spent about two hours trying to set some more things up for my move. Made some nice progress ( Read more... )

I just got back from a lovely evening with Greg and Jeannie. Jeannie grew up out in California, and had been to the east coast, but this was her first time out here to Pennsylvania since she and Greg have been dating, about a year. I guess I have no concept of time, cause I thought I saw Greg not too long ago, but it's been at least a year, back ( Read more... )

Last night, no kickball. It was just too damn hot. So, instead, the whole gang just met up at Halligan's a little later, and a large gang it was. We took up two tables this time; I think 17 of us ended up showing up. I ate at the larger table, as Shap and Laurie came a little later, but switched to their table for trivia (as another provision ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to state this for a while. But I hate those eBay commercials for "it," which they fortunately seem to be phasing out right now. Basically cause my favorite Monkees song of all time is "Daydream Believer," but I've heard that on the commercial so incessantly that I can no longer stand it. How dare they ruin good pop music like ( Read more... )

So Gillick's second big-time trade went down, now, trading Abreu away. I'm kinda sad about it, but not too much. I liked Bob-bay a lot, and I think he was definitely one of the Phils' underrated greats, so it's tough to lose a player like that. Though, it was also pretty clear that he wasn't the type of guy to really put the team on his back and ( Read more... )

First off, I just logged onto ESPN.com, and was absolutely over the moon to see the Phils finally got rid of David Bell and his ever-present holding-in-a-dump-discomfort face! Sure, we have no answer at third now for the rest of the season, we basically got crap in return, and right now we have no minor prospects for that posish (other than my ( Read more... )

Saturday work was fairly better. I went in from 6 to close again, which is fine with me, and I'll be doing the same this coming week. Last time, I helped prep, but then just stood to the side and watched. This time, I prepped a bit in the very beginning, but Alison was there expediting and asked Steve to have Braulio teach me dessert plate-ups ( Read more... )