Archive for September, 2005
- this guy is just incredible. the first time i saw these pictures, i thought it was some sort of photoshop wizardry. but this is the real deal.
- early bird: a memoir of premature retirement. rodney rothman’s hilarious account of moving into a retirement community in florida to experience retirement. as a 29 year old.
- the KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic Archive. A couple years worth of live performances on one of the best daily music programs around. Everyone from Badly Drawn Boy to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to Ben Harper to Erin McKeown. I’ve spent days going back and listening to them.
- for the third year in a row, the sox will keep me sleep deprived for the month of october. go sox!
- i’ve never seen anyone get as excited about a dustbuster as susanne is. she’s dustbusting the entire house. not that i’m complaining.
- finally getting some interest in our place. hopefully we can get things wrapped up this week so we can start thinking about moving junk.
- i can’t believe i haven’t mentioned this before, but the greatest train-wreck of a reality tv show is breaking bonaduce. you HAVE to watch this. you just can’t look away.
- golf with dickie on sunday. i can’t believe it’s the first time we’ve played all year, and only the second time i’ve played all year.
- i’m always a little shocked when i’m able to fix anything on my car. even something as simple as new wiper blades. of course, it’s not as wasy as it sounds. for my car, you don’t replace the blades; just the rubber inserts. well of course, there are metal pieces that hold them in place, and you have to remove the old ones, and figure out how exactly to get the new ones in, and of course one of them is too long so you have to cut it, but you don’t really have anything to cut something like that, so you borrow some clippers from somebody, and you destroy the clippers while trying to do it. but in the end, success! at this point, i’m happy when i’m able to fill up my gas tank without breaking anything.
- so what do you do when your last plastic fork breaks and your plastic knife breaks and you have a big sticky sweet barbeque chicken leg just taunting you? you go old school, pick up that leg, dive in face first, and hope that you finish it and wipe yourself clean before anyone comes into your office. that’s some good BBQ.
- we’ve become total hippies and started bringing our own canvas grocery bag to russo’s. it’s amazing how many of those plastic bags are spared by using one canvas bag. sure we care about the environment and all, but it’s just much easier to carry and our house is no longer being overrun by mountains of plastic grocery bags.
- susie’s birthday weekend. lots of fun gifts, lots of good eating, and lots of good times.
- sel de la terre is really our favorite birthday restaurant, and really one of our favorite restaurants in the entire city. great food, a nice room, reasonable prices, and the best bread and frites in the city. we got a little creative with the ordering this time by ordering all starters. no entrees. ever notice how much more interesting and exciting appetizers are than entrees? small plates, big concentrated flavors, lots of variety. it makes for a much more fun and interesting meal. by the way, let’s get back to the frites. these are the most perfect, hot and crispy, golden brown, herb dusted, salty and addictive french fries you’ve ever tasted. we could go there and just order about 5 orders of these.
- a visit from the charbonneaus, complete with carvel cake.
- a visit to another of our favorite places, oleana. and for once, we were able to enjoy our entrees after not completely stuffing ourselves on the bread and pret a manger. yes, i know this is completely opposite of what i was just saying, but oleana is a place where you want to experience as much of the menu as possible. just completely unique ingredents and spices that you can’t find anywhere else.
- the all new gordonwrightmusic.com. hopefully we’ll get lots of good london stories and some great tunes. rock.
- the fine folks at jomashop.com. if you’re in the market for some nice stuff, this place is excellent.
- i’m in one of those modes where everything i touch breaks. after over 3 years of faithful service, my ipod broke this weekend. it’s so sad. i guess i need to get a new one now. which one should i get? one of the new nano’s, or do i buy a refurbished mini’s? i also broke the toilet this morning. oh, and i my car is making a weird smell. and the turn signal is out.
- please, somebody rent our place. we don’t feel like paying rent along with a mortgage come november.
- susanne’s big birthday along with the signing of our purchse and sale and paying of the deposit makes last friday the most expensive day of my life.
- i like gifts for other people that i get to enjoy too. jon and carolyn’s zingerman’s gift box was a great one.
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