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Back in the day, when the grunge movement was getting going, I was fairly “cool” for a while. I went to the “right” clubs, knew a lot of the bands, hung out with a lot of the movers-and-shakers, and so on. Hell, I’m even in the movie “Singles“… if you know where to squint in [...]
That 10lbs of body weight I puked out over a 48-hour period a couple weeks ago? Yeah, I’ve successfully gained it all back, along with another pound or two for good measure. <grumble>
The last dream I had last night was a borderline nightmare. Wanna know what it was about? I was relaxing near the swimming pool of a Hawaiian resort, listening to a heavily-tattooed Madonna sing a quiet song in a language I didn’t understand, when an apparently-amphibious moray eel came out of the pool and started attacking guests, [...]
There has been lots of construction going on in a lab here at work. From a distance, the floor sealer (or something) they’ve been using smells EXACTLY like the leather protectant that BMW uses in their cars. For an entire day last week, the scent of “new BMW” drove me nuts as A) it reminded [...]
I have always been a milk drinker. And not a casual, “sure I’ll have a glass with cookies” milk drinker, but the kind of milk drinker that makes cows say, “Daaaayummm.” I like to joke that I drink more “moo juice” than most baby cows. Even with two young children in the house sucking down [...]
The urinals in the bathroom here at work have this annoying habit of squirting a bit of water out of the handle when you flush. Even knowing this and, in fact, expecting it to happen, there’s still something about getting a few drops of water on your hand during that particular activity that trips one’s “ewww” [...]
I heard Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” on the local classic rock station yesterday.
Speaking as someone who averages maybe one cup of coffee a year, even including high school/college/any of the really rough times after new babies arrived, I find it disconcerting in the extreme that I’m drinking a second cup in two days, my third since the start of the year. Having resisted the siren song of about [...]
For many years I’ve said that, should I somehow become indolently wealthy, I would like to return to school in order to learn how to operate big, yellow construction vehicles. I’m thinking mainly of that tracked, backhoe-like bastard (I think they’re called excavators), but I think they’re all awesome. All my Tonka trucks that I so [...]
As I was walking through the cafeteria at work today, playing “Spot the Freak” in my head, I was suddenly struck by the realization that, for some of the people present, I might be considered a good candidate for my own game. (Still and all, where do some of these people come from? The fact it [...]
We all have our own little personality quirks, most of which are so minor as to be unknowable by others. I have one that, while impossible for others to notice, is a really tough one for me to live with: I cannot STAND to hear people eat. The chewing, slurping, lip-smacking, swallowing, etc. justs grosses [...]
I miss being part of a team. Actually, I am technically part of a team, but the work is fairly individual in nature so it doesn’t feel like much of a team. Hell, I’m not even in the same building as the rest of the team. I miss the collaborative, “let’s get this figured out” [...]
Just as 11/22/1963 was for my parents and 12/7/1941 was for theirs, the date 9/11/2001 will forever be burned into my memory as a date about which people ask “Where were you when…?” I bring this up on the sixth anniversary of one of the worst crimes in history not to write in any detail about [...]
Earlier today, I realized (again) that life is too short to put up with crappy products or services when you don’t have to. (Comcast DVR and service, I’m specifically talking about you here.)
I don’t know what it is about it, exactly, but the movie “Signs” has always creeped me out. I’ve seen it several times, edited and not, with commercials and without, and it fundamentally wigs me out. Hair on my neck standing up, goosebumps, the whole bit. Every freaking time.