I listen to various podcasts but there are two that I’d like to suggest:
I used to write blog posts about the neighbors that lived above us but now we’re living in an actual housing development with real live yards and some different issues. Before I had to worry about noises such as loud fighting – now I have to worry about my neighbor who barbecues and fills the air with fantastic smells that make me hungry even if I’ve just eaten. I’ll have to find out what he’s marinating and grilling and further the issue for neighbors around us.
We also went down to the Anderson’s this evening after taking a walk and playing at the local school’s playground and sat on their front porch enjoying fellowship and good conversation. We’re truly blessed to live here and to have good neighbors and friends.
Well, its been an awesome 11 days in Texas. Thanks to friends, family and other foreigners (non-Texans) who made this trip successful, and entertaining. We leave tomorrow morning to go back to Denver Internation Airport. I’ll be picking up a keyboard shortly for playing the musique on and then the pordcast will have even more funky intros. I look forward to future trips to Texas and hope that when I come down again I’ll have just as much productive time as this trip – plus seeing friends. I saw more friends during this trip than I have on any previous trip down combined.
Also, thanks to the following folks for making sure I had some things to whine about:
To everyone else I came in contact: thanks 🙂
On September 11th 2001 I was at Alt-N for exactly a year. I don’t actually remember if I had a review scheduled that day but the terrorists threw that day out of the window for productivity. Traffic was slow that day on the highways, but not backed up – no one wanted to rush home. We were all pretty somber. Today the terrorists attacked in London. My review is scheduled for about an hour from now. I know its coincidence but it still feels a little weird to have those things align.
I’m praying for the survivors, the families of those who are lost or are dead, and the sanity of world leaders in this time of crisis, pain and suffering. The lives of those involved will be forever changed, the reconstruction of the damage will take time and of course the nation will be in the defensive mode for a while as well. Pray.
I have officially eaten out too many times and I think I’m going to have to turn my internal organs in for a new set when I get home. I don’t want any more grease, large slabs of (tasty) meat or more iced tea or soda. When I get home I’m going to eat a salad and drink about 300 gallons of water and as many gallons of green tea to detox (both of the beverage rations have already been started). I enjoy being served food as much as the next guy but I’m starting to feel the sluggishness of malnutrition.
I’ve eaten two Mexican meals so far while in Texas! Yippeee!! I loves me some Mexican food.
I just saw a commercial on TV for Brawny paper towels. Yup, it was selling paper towels with sex. The man was a day-time soap looking fellow who was doing everything in as sensuous a manner as he could muster.
What have we come to that women, apparently viewed as desperate house wives, are drawn to paper towels thinking of how they’d like to pick up some hot steamy messes with a brawny man?
Sad.
We just got back from Stomp. As I expected I was impressed. There was a lot of stuff that I remembered from the first show I saw around 6 years ago, but also a lot of fun new stuff – and, since it had been six years there was plenty of time for me to forget some of it so it could be new again. There was a lot more comedy than I recall from before so that was good. I was also good to hear our friends the Kaes laugh as well and I’m sure that Kailey and Trystan are just hungry to start their own Stomp routines.
Good stuff! Definitely worth going to see if they come to your area. Sell and organ if you have to. Organs aren’t as cool as drums anyway 😉
Some time I wrote about a site that allowed folks to put captions on things and the entry had the title: What to Wear to Court. Bad move on my part. Now folks are coming to my site looking for clothing advice. If you’re reading this looking clothing advice, you’re on the wrong blog. I recommend the following outfit for 99% of your life: T-Shirt (white, black or possibly blue) with Jeans (blue, loose fitting preferred). When you go to court, you can wear a button up shirt, but don’t lose the jeans! Clothes in court are half of the battle. The other half is whether or not you’re the guilty one or not. If you’re a juror, make sure you wear your sunglasses in so that they don’t see you looking at anything but the person in the stand or the judge or attorneys.
Oh, and make sure you have on clean underwear in case the defendent escapes and kills you – your mom will be proud 😉
note: this is a joke article and if I’m ever called to a jury I will do my civic duties with pride and honor – attorneys please don’t weed me out because I like to laugh
The title of this post accurately reflects my knowledge of most languages actually, not just French. I could say pardon my Spanish, Russian, Yiddish or any other language. I’m bound by the silly English languish. However, I’ve managed in the last 5 or so years to learn various programming languages at least well enough to get things done in them. Why is it that programming languages are simpler than spoken languages to learn? Often because they’ve got similar syntax or a similar approach to things.
Right now I’m learning C++, a language written in what seems like the dark ages after having used Java, but I’m catching on and I think that its going to prove useful. Its a lot faster than older versions of Java and it can be written rather efficiently as well since many function names are terse and remove all vowels. Of course without vowels you have to play a guessing game about what things like the following mean:
atoi
memcmp // oops, they left a vowel in that one
strcmp
strcpy
However, there’s a secret decoder ring that came with one of my books so I was able to figure those out 😉