Category: Life

  • What To Do With A Tax Refund

    So we got our big wad of cash from the Feds on Friday. The plan is to pay off a lot of those overdue bills and whatnot that have been hanging over our collective head. We hate getting phone calls from collection agencies, man.

    We did, however, do a bit of shopping. I needed shoes, Wendi needed shoes, Wendi’s dad needed shoes. So we trekked out to the Troutdale outlet mall for some shoes.

    I’m sure you all really wanted to know about the fact that we went shoe shopping. Yep.

    Ah yes, before we made that trek we stopped off at the local NoHo’s for some teriyaki chicken. Mmmmm, the best teriyaki chicken dish known to mankind can be found at NoHo’s Hawaiian restaurants. What, you don’t have one in your area? Your loss, neighbor.

    On the way home we stopped off to pick up Heroes of Might and Magic IV. I’ll post a full review in a couple of days, but suffice to say that it’s just like the previous Heroes games, only prettier and more complex. This is a good thing.

    We also picked up a Carmen Sandiego game for the kids, Final Fantasy VII (which won’t @#$%ing play on our computers since all of our machines have modern video cards installed, dammit), and 4×4 Evolution. I talked Wendi into that one based on the idea that Alex would want to play it with me. Turns out he’s beyond indifferent to the idea. Oh well.

    Maybe I should have dropped the 4×4 and FF7 in favor of Might And Magic IX. 3DO hasn’t let us down yet, anyway.

  • Weird Google Experience

    So I decided to see how many sites are using the “Oral Sex Donation” thing from The Brunching Shuttlecocks, so I go to Google and search for that phrase. The pages I find aren’t terribly interesting, but what just now got my attention is the Sponsored Link:

    Hate oral sex?
    Hypnosis can make you love to give
    a BLOWJ0B. Become aroused giving
    www.biggerisbetter.com

    Um… Google? Is there something you want to tell us?

  • All My Television Are Belong To AT&T

    I don’t have many television programs that I watch “religiously.” Unfortunately they all fall on Friday and Saturday, precisely the two days during which our cable was turned off. So no Farscape, no Yu Yu Hakusho, no Cowboy Bebop and no Pilot Candidate.

    Waaaaaaah!

  • Boywasthisfunny

    Dinner for me, tonight, consisted of a can of Chef Boyardee ravioli. I used to love this stuff, but tonight required serious willpower. As I was in #KNRK at the time, I started making jokes about the cuisine at Casa Kerezman. Jokes like…

    • Chef Innacan
    • Chef Boyareyoudumb
    • Chef Boyisthiscrapnasty
    • Chef Boyyouregonnaneedastomachpump
    • Chef Boywasthatbad
    • Chef Boythisnuclearwasteissuretasty
    • and one of my friends on AIM chimed in with Chef Boywasthatmydog, which is funnier than any of the ones I came up with.


    This is how I kill time… and my taste buds, apparently.

  • April Fool!

    I‘ve never been one for pranks, so I won’t bother trying to do one here. My brain just doesn’t operate that way, really. I’m more into verbal by-play than deliberate teasing.

    In other news, today my good friend Heather is down in Cali at a job interview. If it goes well, she’ll be gainfully employed when she moves down there to be with her Darrell. Think good thoughts in her direction, please.

    How was Easter? I’m glad you asked. I spent Saturday night hiding eggs both real and plastic. It was a blast, really. There were two eggs that escaped discovery for almost half the day. Alex and Erica had a great time, even if Alex wasn’t initally too thrilled at getting a plush rooster. (We bought Erica the bunny, we had to get Alex something, didn’t we?) On the balance side, last night the television was locked onto the broadcast of The Ten Commandments. Again. I hid in the bedroom with some McCaffrey reading. Pegasus In Flight and Pegasus In Space, if you’re wondering.

  • Call me shorn.

    Once again I regale my audience with timely and relevant news like the following:

    • I got my hair “done” this morning. Terece always gels it kind of funny, but it looks great the next day when I do it myself. I should talk to her about that next time, see if maybe I can get her to undertand a bit better what I want my hair to do. No biggie.
    • I took two allergy pills this morning. Hence my current inability to concentrate or move very quickly. Damned antihistamines!
    • Peach-Pit from #KNRK is going to be at a cool horse show this weekend. I don’t know what this has to do with anything, but this is just an example of how poor of judgement I am when I’m on allergy meds. (Gotcha, Peaches!)
    • I got GnuPG signatures to work in Groupwise. Well, it’s a bit of a kludge but it’s better than not being able to sign messages at all.

    There, don’t you feel all knowledgable or something?