It snowed the other day here in Emerson. I had just finished de-angsting myself at the gym and was driving home in the dark with my headlights on when it occurred to me that at 45mph it looked as though I was in the Millennium Falcon, co-piloting with Han Solo through a galaxy of blurring stars in hyperspace (headlights on snow). But that was only ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago I was reading about compact fluorescent light bulbs, and I thought it might not be a bad idea to try them. The cost had gone down considerably, and while the inherent flickering is still there (you can't ever truly get rid of it), it wasn't as noticeable as it had been in the previous models. So I bought a bunch of them and ( Read more... )

I don't know which is worse. On more than one occasion I've passed gas in what I thought was an empty room only to find that it was not, in fact, empty at all. Today it was the other way around. I got to the post office to visit my PO box and, just as I walked in, the guy who walked in ahead of me released a stench that had the picture of the guy ( Read more... )

I was rubbing belly butter on my wife's tummy this morning when, for the first time, I felt little Joseph kick! Or punch or head butt, I don't really know which, but ( Read more... )

I took my car into the shop for an oil change, a new brake light bulb, and to have the brakes checked. Everything was going alright until they tried to start the car again. My poor battery. It had been on its last legs for the better part of last year (ever since I left the lights on all night and needed a jump start) but I'd been nursing it along ( Read more... )

I want to write something, but I can't seem to figure out what. I'm so sick of pain-killer commercials. And tax relief commercials. And people dressed up as doctors or scientists to add credence to their claims that some product they're hawking actually works. It's interesting to note that one rarely - if ever - sees an actor dressed up as a priest ( Read more... )

...blue cheese? Yep, everything smells like blue cheese now. This is over two weeks of being sick and I can barely smell anything anymore with the exception of blue cheese. Argh. Erf. Snargle. Hrmf.

Oh, and happy new year.

- Zohar S.E.

Yesterday Wendy and I were going to have lunch with Jamie, but the weather didn't want to cooperate, so we postponed until Tuesday. The skies finally stopped falling, though, and we went to my friend Pedro's house for dinner, where Pedro and I killed some vodka and at least four bottles of wine. So we decided to spend the night. And we almost did ( Read more... )

I enjoy searching the web for recipes. I like to find maybe 5 or so different recipes for the same thing (all with good reviews, of course) and then make my own based on what I consider the best and/or most practical parts of all of them. Generally, things work out well. I've found a few things to be true, however, of most recipes I've run across. ( Read more... )

After work today I was driving to my mother's house to bring her phone to her (she left it at my house a few days back). While listening to some guy on NPR talk about the difference between the current wholesale inflation and core inflation rates, I had an epiphany - you know that duck-shooting game you could play where you plugged an electronic ' ( Read more... )