That's right. Waterlogged. Anyway, this is just an update: my phone is still borked. I haven't gotten around to, you know, actually doing anything about it yet. I'm a total slackass sometimes. I suppose what's stopping me is that I've got about a million different things I can do and...
Layla was talking earlier about loaning things as collateral (or something...honestly, I don't remember exactly. Shh—don't tell her) when I thought about how certain places demand things in return for borrowing other things. For example, the whalewatching boat that we went on loaned out binoculars to patrons in return for...
I admit, I have an addiction. I go crazy for cowbell hazelnut. I've got a bunch of hazelnut coffee. It's good. And last night, I found a hazelnut beer at the Tap House—a bar/grill which has something like 160 beers on tap. Anyway, the beer is damned awesome. I don't...
This is dumb. I admit. But, I'm really tired and don't want to write about anything that requires brainpower. But, I want to talk about elevators. Again. I noticed today that if you walk into an elevator, push the floor button, watch the doors close, and then ... nothing happens....
The Pacific Science Center was where we went today. Err, I actually started that sentence with, "The Pacific Science Center" and didn't know how to keep going. So there you go. Now you're stuck with it. It's right next to the Space Needle. Inside, it has Big Numbers. And smells....
Thursday afternoon my office had a somewhat (ok, not at all) spontaneous BBQ and party out on the lake. Sweet. As always, my pants got soaked. This time, it was courtesy entirely of Layla. Thanks, Layla!...
In New Mexico, I rented a Buick LeSabre. Some of you may be thinking that this is a total old-man car built by General Motors, the worst of the worst car makers this side of Seoul. And I'll tell you, despite its shortcomings, this car really isn't all that bad....
So this last weekend, we had a surprise birthday party for Pete. I guess the funny part is that most of us didn't know that Pete's birthday was actually two weeks ago. So really, the party really was a surprise. But anyway, I took some shots. Here are the highlights....
How many of you have, at one point or another, lost car keys? It's pretty damned easy, especially if you don't have a keychain larger than one of Saturn's smaller moons. Now, how many of you have lost an entire car before? ...twice? Sunday afternoon, upon my return from fabulous...
The original intent was that today, I was going to post about my trip to New Mexico. I was going to talk about this because I have a bunch of pictures from there and, hey, pictures are easy to talk about. The only problem is that I'm over at Layla's...
Longtime viewers may remember EU2004 and the ensuing hilarity. Specifically, the best picture of all time is something I've busted out on a fairly regular basis. The point is, Europe is and has been awesome for at least the last 15 or 30 years, and maybe even before that. I'm...
I'm going to be brief about this, because I'm really not in the mood to rant about anything at the moment. I got to drive 90 minutes last night with soggy pants. That was awesome. And my phone is seriously broken. So, nobody call, because it will probably be off....
I'm in New Mexico at the moment. I hadn't mentioned because the idea was that a bunch of us were going to get together to throw a surprise birthday party for Pete, and on the offchance that someone read this and didn't know to keep quiet about it, it may...
Early this morning, feeling very hazy: I arrive at the elevator dude arrives at the elevator I press the "up" button dude asserts the "up" button again an elevator arrives, going down dude walks toward elevator dude turns around when he figures out it's a "down" elevator elevator doors close...
Earlier today I went to the EMP—the Experience Music Project. It's a music museum, and it's in Seattle. To my understanding, the EMP is actually a giant tax writeoff. Paul Allen (the, you know, co-founder of Microsoft) is a collector of music memorabilia and by the late 1990s he had...
I haven't really talked about cars in a while. So everybody hold on to your butts. Today I'm going to mention, briefly, the new Subaru B9 Tribeca. I've actually seen a couple of these around and got to sit in one at the mall the other day. I must admit—the...
I just want everyone to know that there are two things that are better than anything else right now: sandals, and Tetris. Thank you for your attention....
There are certain acts of abject stupidity which, in my opinion, instantly qualify a person for execution. These points are largely nonnegotiable and include things like, "flying an airplane while drunk," "putting a source of compressed air up your ass," and, "NASCAR." It's indisputable that any one of these things...
As mentioned, Layla and I went whalewatching. Thankfully, I'm not in the mood to give you a play-by-play of everything that happened—because that would be dumb. Instead, here are the non-whale-related highlights. Anacortes in the fog The marina at Anacortes (or, really, one marina at Anacortes—there are assuredly many of...
Today, Layla and I went whalewatching. We had a fantastic time. Here's a small glimpse of what we saw. Admittedly, this is the best shot I got the entire time. I'll post more about it later. For now, I'm exhausted....
I've been playing a lot of Super Mario Brothers 3 recently. And really, it's awesome. The gameplay is phenomenal and is, in my opinion, the culmination of the entire Mario series. I've also realized, however, that the music does leave a good deal lacking. It's ridiculously repetitive and has, at...
Six months ago to the minute, I started my first journal post. And since then, I've made a grand total of 524 posts. This averages to around 2.9 posts/day—and I say "around," because I'm not actually calculating the exact number of days between then and now. So where have I...
This sign is in a parking garage at the Pike's Place market in Seattle. If you click, you'll notice that whoever wrote the sign up originally appears to have a rather pronounced fear of using the word, "in."...
Despite initial speculation about my proposed ridiculously inebriated state at the Microsoft Company Picnic, I haven't followed up with a followup. So, it follows: I did, in fact, get completely wasted at the company picnic—but, not before taking a few pictures and falling off a mechanical bull. Pictures of me...
...may occupy the same space at the same time. Specifically, a Ford Escort may not occupy the same space as a carport pillar—at least not at the same time. Luckily, the Escort is in the position that the pillar used to be, so at least the carport roof itself isn't...
So all day today Layla gave me a ton of shit about not getting in touch with Will. Dammitalltohell....
Canadaland was totally not worth the admission price. I want my money back. Honestly, I finally made it to Canada. I didn't get to see much, because I showed up after sunset and left right after midnight. In short, it's like the US but the highway distance signs are all...
I woke up this morning and found out that I was an überdork. And then I almost got my nipple cut off....
I just got the 3 back from the dealership. In the end, I had them fix the passenger seat controls and replace the accessory belt, but they couldn't reproduce the squeak in the front-end. Damn. The funny part comes when I got the car back, however. When driving away from...
Yesterday, spake Layla: "Do you really need to buy a drill, or is this just an excuse to buy a new toy?" And back I quoth, "I'm a guy. I have a need to put holes in everything."...
I've known how to fix this for a while, but I've finally gotten around to it. The fix I've got requires that you point yourselves to my RSS feeds again, because they have moved. Those of you who appreciate direct linky linkies will appreciate these:Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0 RSD...
In honor of just passing 512 posts, here's a recap of posts whose index is a power of 2. This post is largely copied from Power of 2 roll call (11). The entire static version of this journal is now 69MB. 1000000000 (512): Slowswank 0100000000 (256): d00m3d 0010000000 (128): Weird...
I registered my car. I paid a butt-ton in taxes. Despite the fact that I really like the idea of having low (or in this case, no) state income tax, it does have it downsides. Specifically, I had to cut a check for nearly $800 just to get license plates...
