Thursday August 21, 2008
mancation was happened. three days planned of chilltastic excellence at the lakehouse. boating, swimming, kayaking, vidjagaming, billarding, grilling, running, playing, no frollicing, and just good times in general. eight of us were planning on going. one bailed at the last minute, a reason and decision we respect but that saddened us all. one broke a toe while jumping in the lake. one got severely nasty awfully since with some stomach virus, fighting the big D and the cold sweats, and was MIA for most of the weekend. but five guys had a great time. oh, the severely sick one was me. i lost 10 pounds. i am now gonna attempt to make lemonade out of lemons and keep that poundage off by eating better and exercising more. the exercising won’t be tough to do. playing soccer, flag football and running more often lately. i scored my first soccer goal since middle school. that was flipping fantastic. cohen calls me “da-dee” and he sounds like a little british boy. when he wants us to get off the couch to play with him he pulls on our shorts and says “down”. mandy’s 2nd pregnacny continues to go very very well and we are counting down the days until 11/20. been a slow week at work, which has been a nice transition from the sickly weekend. EPL has started up, yay soccer! NFL and college football are just DAYS AWAY. i love the fall. love love excitement. et cetera.
Tuesday August 5, 2008
for starters we bought a new car. the gmc acadia, google search that awesome mess. we need it. one kid out and about, a little daughter on the way and a 85lb dog… we need the space the acadia provides… but we couldn’t accept mini-van-life-style status, and the acadia is the next best (read: better) thing. it’s got the interior of a mini-van or surburban, the exterior of a tight suv, and the gas mileage of… 20sh mpg. love it. got the dvd player factory installed, keeps the cobear pacified when necessary. other news: moved my home office to the basement (after painting and carpeting the front basement room), and have finished the paint and set up for cohen’s big boy room. he has NO idea. i mean, he’s been in there to play, but he has NO idea. and so forth. just went to visit some cool friends in va beach last weekend. got a tour of town and some beach time. thanks to the txler for the great time. radiohead is currently telling me to go ‘round and round and round’. my xbox got the RRoD a bit ago, was repaired by the MS Conglomerate, and has been returned to me. works like a charm. good times those vidjagames. cohen is repeating words more and more. it’s pretty tight. he says “stuck” whenever a toy or something is… well… stuck. go situational awareness! i ran a 10k race a few weeks back. dang nasty, i wasn’t as prepared for it as i should have been. but, i ran all 6.2 miles in 1:03:40 (that’s 1 hr, 3 mins and 40 secs). problem is that the winner of the race pretty much halved my time with a 30sh minute time. ouchie. my soccer league starts up next week. flag football in early september. woot and woot. sarcasm is the highest form of humor. right. et cetera.
Thursday July 10, 2008
the man in line in front of me at starbucks was a very clean cut 50sh fellow, wearing stlyish reading glasses and had gel in his short cropped grey hair. he also smelled, no reeked, of gold bond medicated powder. he also said the following while in line, going from looking at the CDs, to the food refridge, to talking to a friend, to touching the arm of another friend, to ordering… but all as if it was one continuous sentence: “what is this? mother theresa’s servant team buttermuffins, whatcha got there scotty? you are holding up the line, there are others behind us i would like hot tea with chai tea, no hot tea, chai.”
Wednesday July 9, 2008
i am reading the “final” book in the ender’s quartet, a sci-fi series by orson scott card. the first book is called ‘ender’s game’, it’s phenominal. much unlike my spelling. i read the second one, ‘speaker of the dead’, a while ago. and i just finished the 3rd book called ‘xenocide’ and rolled immediately into the 4th, ‘children of the mind.’ now that you have the chronology of my reading, i will get to my point. the final 3 books are vastly different in style and plotline than the 1st. that’s fine and dandy… dandy. but i get the feeling, as the series rolls on, that the author never had an overarching outline for the series, just he took threads and concepts from the previous book and fleshed out a few things in more detail or granularity and advanced the plotline. i am not gonna ruin anything specifically, but it just feels like he re-read the previous book in the series and was like “oh! i can make THIS become THAT and add THIS and BOOM sequel.” i mean, don’t get me wrong, i am still enjoying the novels and would recommend ‘ender’s game’ to anyone, and the rest of the series to sci-fi lovers. but, i can’t get past that feeling that the books are not really entwined from conception, just a series of plot-twist-brain-farts and redefinitions. et cetera.
Thursday June 5, 2008
our jeep died the thursday before memorial day. i loved that car. her name was maggie. i was hoping that she would last until july, or maybe even next july. but maggie just wouldn’t do it for us. i ended up selling her for a fair amount. and now it’s time to move on. namely, moving on to bigger things… like the acadia, or pilot, or tahoe, or gigantor. et cetera.
Tuesday March 11, 2008
my office has a flavia machine in its kitchette. i go there everyday to get coffee. this is where awkward conversations occur. today’s example:
i ran into a woman in on my floor who used to be a temporary office-mate of mine as she awaited for her own office to be set up. we barely spoke when we had shared an office. within five minutes of being in my office she had somehow (without even having a hole-punch machine or tool) spread hundreds of hole-punched circlets of paper all over our (read: my) floor. i still may not have forgiven her.
anyway, i clearly just digressed, so i ran into this woman, and the following occurred:
me: goodmorning.
woman: goodmorning, how are you doing?
me: doing fine.
[a few seconds pause while i grabbed my coffee and such]
me: how are you doing?
woman: doing well. how are y… well, um, work is keeping me busy.
me: yeah me, too. well, have a good day.
woman: thanks, you too.
et cetera.
Monday March 10, 2008
secretly, facebook depresses me. we’ve acquired a new mattress. i hope to have the first in a long line of good night-sleeps tonight. after three months of waking up with lower back pain, it’s about dang time. i asked cohen what he was doing while he was playing a few days ago, he said/grunted “i don’t know.” twas hilarious. flag football starts up at the end of the month. i am most def excited. i signed up to run in a 10k this july 26th. i am also very excited. i need to start training for it. i’ve never run more than 4 miles (10k = 6.2 miles). et cetera.
Thursday March 6, 2008
so as i was walking towards the front door of my office building, a guy from my floor was walking perpendicular to me, towards the door as well. and he looked at me. and then kinda half smiled at me. i have never met this guy, only seen him in the kitchette and such. we end up getting on the same elevator, just he and i. and he says something like, “it’s funny to get on at the same time two days in a row.” and i kinda say “umm, yeah” while i was thinking: i wasn’t here yesterday. so awkward. et cetera.
