Just so I could participate in local culture there. Local culture romance that is. Sweet googly-moogly, why don’t they have a restaurant in Colorado? Whitecastle is having a reservation only Valentines Dinner (details here). Of course you’ll still have to put up with the jerks honking at the drive-through, but its still an interesting concept.
You can read why I’m so fascinated by Whitecastle here, here, here and here.
I took Abby out to get frozen yogurt tonight. Only the shop was closed. They’re on sabbatical for approximately 10/12ths of the year. Abby was dissappointed and said, “The lights are out and the people are bummered.” But I think she was the ‘bummered’ girl. Such is life. I love her little phrases that try to hard to speak at an adult level. Being her dad is awesome – if your kid is half as cool as mine you’re a blessed parent 🙂
Have you noticed that we ‘pay out of pocket’ for some things? I’d like to challenge the readers of this blog to consider paying out of other clothing items’ parts. For example paying out of sleeve, paying out of hat or maybe paying out of the delicates. There is so much opportunity here for creativity – because frankly in our modern mostly cashless first world society we’re all paying out of the plastic wether its debited out of our bank account or added to the already limitless [wink, wink – nudge, nudge] amount of debt that we can get into with store specific credit lines, airline specific credit cards or worse: gas cards.
I for one am going to pay out of pant leg patch next time just to see how that feels.
“It’s just going to keep snowing forever, mom.”
We’re having a new snow storm here, I think this is the 4th storm in 5 weeks. I love the snow so this is great, but Abby’s starting to feel like the snow could take a break and let Spring and Summer have a go at things 🙂
I don’t play the mandolin. However, I’m going to learn (like the unicycle I have yet to finish learning how to ride – but its hard to practice in the snow we’ve been having). I got an inexpensive mandolin online. But its bridge was more warped than Pauly Shore. That is to say that its very, very much like a human being, only not quite right. Wait, mandolin bridges are not like humans, but they are like shaped pieces of wood. Shaped pieces of wood that should probably not be twisted like licorice. Twisted pieces of rosewood that shouldn’t look like this:
I ordered a new bridge from some online music store (which hasn’t arrived yet). Total money spent? $37.00. Yeah for cheap learning instruments. Once I get familiar with it, I’ll have to save up and get a top dollar mandolin. One like one of these.
So I was listening to a station on Pandora. This band comes on and starts sining, “Mydo Kawa.” I was thinking to myself, “These guys sound white enough, but that’s surely some oriental language.” Turns out its the Steve Miller Band and he’s singing “My Dark Hour.” Enunciate! Or move to Canada, learn to enunciate and then sing your silly songs. Mydo Kawa!
I just accidentally typed Libraries and instead typed librariers. Librariers are clearly the things preventing me from getting my books back on time. To put this in perspective last year I spent more money on late book fees at the library than I did video rental fees. Scary. I think that the Librarians see me coming and fear for their books and other patrons because they know that my family returns books so slowly that some authors have probably written and published new children’s books in between our picking up their previous 16 page special and when we’ll eventually return it. Librariers exist because goofy patrons like us forget that we can renew the books online… if we remembered we had them.
And that’s why we can’t have nice things.
In real life I worked hard to get a project done, I will continue to work hard on that project tonight after the girls go to bed. But in fantasy land…
I worked on a super-cool video game, and in one afternoon I singlehandedly created the most brilliant first level ever conceived. And then showed it off to the world via a video on youtube that got more hits than any other video has ever gotten. While I waited the approximate 10 minutes that the viral video took to garner the worldwide attention it deserved I recorded one of the songs for the album I’m making this year. It was the most fruitful 10 minutes in recording history.
The fantastic world that I live in is way more exciting than real life. The meticulous project I’m working on is going to have to be produced in stages. Not stages for acting, but sequential layers of completion. Completion that seems far off, even if the requirement is that it is done in only a few weeks. Fortunately I’m working with a group of other coders who have their stuff together so we’re making great headway.
And boy are we sad. We were really hoping to catch the sappy intro wherein the Hair Flair Scare gets greeted by his super-model wife and child who has more hair than him and then he tells us about how the apprentice is going to finally be selected from a group of cannibals who have no qualms eating their opponents for breakfast, lunch and dinner [and if Taco Bell sponsors it again, “fourth meal”]. Can you believe we missed that?
I would have loved to have seen the opponents get briefly introed as successful business people, brilliant students and quadrillionaires. Which leads me to my next point: why doesn’t Donald Trumpt do an ‘Apprentless’ show where people compete to work in the mail room. Normal people. People like you and I? What? You don’t want to filter through Donald Trump’s email? Me neither, but it would be a good candidate for the Discover channel’s Dirty Jobs show 🙂
I really, really need to go to bed. I have a meeting almost first thing in the morning. However, here’s a cute video of Evelyn. Evelyn Crawls on the Couch