I got Q her first box of crayons – after she smashed mine to bits. I couldn’t find the nice big fat ones that I had growing up. They make some that are fatter than the standard crayons, but smaller than those from my youth. I opened up the 8 pack and to my surprise [...]
Archive for January, 2004
Dead Computer
The hard drive failed in my home computer. Freaky S.M.A.R.T. errors on Bios test and everything. So, I’ve got a new 250GB IDE on the way, but until it arrives there won’t be a lot of stories from me (typing on the wife’s computer).
Q is for Quidditch…
Getting Q dressed to play in the snow is the same as playing Quidditch. Q HATES getting dressed except for putting shoes on. She has a shoe fettish and she knows shoes means she’s going outside. Quiddich is over when the Seeker finds the golden snitch. Chasers score points by getting the Quaffle through one [...]
the fives
Five ways I tend to feel after speaking with Sprint’s Customer Service 1. Like I was just traded to another inmate for 2 packs of menthol cigarettes 2. Like I’ve been slapped repeatedly with a half-frozen sturgeon 3. Like I’ve accidentally just agreed to finish the homework of every kid in my middle school 4. [...]
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Q woke up at 5:48am this morning. It’s not uncommon so I didn’t think anything of it. I got her to go back to sleep and she slept till a record 8:30am.
Growing Hemp – my failed science paper
During HighSchool, one of our projects in a science class was to pick a plant or animal and write a paper on it’s life cycle. Being the badass rebel that I was, I picked Hemp.
They tore down Lenin’s statue – and raised one to Frank Zappa
Nine years ago Lithuania broke away from the Soviet Union, leaving a lot of empty plinths that had previously been occupied by statues of Lenin, Marx and their regional disciples. An obvious question remained: what to do with the empty plinths? Saulius Paukstys, a civil servant and member of the Vilnius bohemian set, saw the [...]
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