I’ve been running infrequently the last two weeks, dieting is non existent and working on the house is just about the same. So, to get myself out of this deep funk of despondence I stayed up playing Street Fighter IV and cleaned the house until 1 AM. Then, I made sure to run this morning, [...]
Let’s do this thing. Now in progress. Dad: There’s magic happening here! J: Um, yeah. (Ed. no magic happened, so I heard) Ed: I gave up my job because of this woman. I work at Microsoft, so this might be my only chance to get laid. Family: (concern) Ed: (solo) I am genuinely going to [...]
Did nothing this weekend, except sleep and game, spend time with Lisa and Nora. Part of it has to do with the oddly laid out weekend (potty practice for Nora), the other part is my deep lack of care. The tub has killed my worker-spirit. I was about to vacuum today and my ambivalence took [...]
My lovely wife purchased this amp for me nine years ago and it still runs strong. It’s been used in four different cars and has always provided clean power. I purchased these a long time ago, but never bothered do anything with them. I was looking at them tonight, and just realized they had capacitors [...]
Half Nelson is one of those schmaltzy art houses films that won a ton of awards whose brilliance and poignancy I completely missed because I’m one of the unwashed masses who are incapable of higher thought. The problem with the movie is that it started strong, but ended in a formulaic feel good mess. Clearly, [...]
Lousy day, blah evening, as we get closer to midnight it’s shaping up. I finally started on World of Goo. I’m a sucker for physics games (couldn’t pull me away from Fantastic Contraption for weeks). The Wii version is probably the best, since it lets you play up to four players at once… but the [...]
Apparently the work I did caused a bigger leak… or did it? There was a significant amount of water on the steps downstairs after I showered, but the spackle that I put down didn’t seem wet. My fingers hurt from pulling the grout and my thighs hurt from sitting awkwardly for seven hours, so naturally [...]
Yesterday, we heard a bone chilling noise. We thought it was the cat… dying. Then we thought it might be Nora… choking. As we ran around the house trying to find it, I heard it through the window. We have this cherry tree that died. And next to it was… a fox. It alternated between [...]
It looks we’re all in. The seller agreed to terms. I learned something about this fellow – he’s the president of a main line real estate company. God help whoever deals with him; five minutes with the neighbors of the property + five minutes of reading his emails says all I need to know about [...]
I couldn’t help it. I’ve been off of it for a while. The siren song beckoned. I’m talking about politics. After John Kerry’s debacle in ’04 I started moving away from politics; by 2006 I was completely apathetic. I blame Google Reader and my incessant reading of Wonkette, Politico and Capitol Hill Blue (among other [...]