What were the biggest and smallest places you’ve lived in?
Submitted by Jack Yan.
Smallest physical space: Old room at my parent's house... Maybe 7x10? House is a ranch, which doesn't help.
Largest physical space: Current house. 2 empty bedrooms, a loft filled with electronics, books and records, and a 32 x 15 living room.
The significant other and I are in the process of trying to select a minister/officiant for our wedding in October. The first person we had lined up, because well... she can't read a calendar correctly. The person I think we're going with is a minister at a Unitarian Universalist church.
I'm really not a religious person. I mean, I was forced to go to a Lutheran church for the first 17 years of my life. Where did that get me? To a lot of bakesales and constant bickering that I found excessive and pointless.
I doubt I'll ever go to church again on regular basis, but the UU religion is at least interesting. They take shit because they cherry pick the good parts from lots of other religions/philosophies. And they're shunned because they don't let religion get in the way of believing in science. I'm sure that rubs everyone else the wrong way.
Afterwards we found a place that has cheap 44oz beers and Black Cask Captain Morgan. Everything else is kinda blurry from that point on.
there are some things in the news that are like clockwork.
the semi-annual 'if you dont pass this school levy, we're going to have no choice but to hire pedaphiles to drive school buses, hand out cigarettes in homeroom and makes kids speak spanish' article.
the annual 'wow, who would have thought all these houses by the freeway and/or airport wouldn't be peaceful and serene?. i think someone should build us a wall / relocate the airport for our convenience'. these crack me up for so many reasons. it's like someone buying a house in say... antarctica and complaining that it's cold and they didn't think their allergy to penguins would be a deal breaker.
and my favorite.... the ohio university students nearly burn city down to ground article. this is so standard operating procedure, that the riots in spring when the time moves forward are known as the 'athens time change riots'. what do you mean closing time is an hour early tonight?!?! let me show my disgust by burning this couch and throwing this brick through a window. i will also punch a police horse. great strategery there.
What three things do you regret not learning to do?
1. Skip
2. Snap my fingers
3. Think about rolling my eyes, without actually rolling them. This has caused me many problems.
I suppose there's still time to do all three. I'm not aware of any 'skipping lessons' outside of 1st grade gym class though.
I also finally caved in and got a facebook account. I guess that makes me 30% less cool.
Tomorrow's Tax Day. Have you done your taxes yet?
Yep, I already spent the $1485 I'm got back.
I'm a good consumer.
In order to get free ice time (eg, make the playoffs), my rec league hockey team needs to win tonight. The good news: We're playing a team sponsored by a comic book shop. The bad news: We're freaking terrible and have someone playing goalie who hasn't played goalie in 14 years.
Random Odds and Ends:
Got an IM from someone in my past. Querying me about how much money she owed me when we broke up and she possibly wants to make it 'right'. Not that I remember a precise figure, but it sure would be nice to have that ~$1700 right about now.
I somehow got this Friday off work. I don't have a backup at work, so whenever I take a day off work, I usually get at least 3 phone calls from a co-worker, sometimes a lot more. It's the significant other's 27th birthday, so I figured it would be nice of me to show up not-exhausted before 11pm on Friday night.
I went to Lancaster (a hick 'suburb' about 40 miles outside of Columbus) for a co-worker's going away party. Jello shots, Rolling Rock, Dirt Cheap Tequilla, blood on the dance floor, country cougars, and drunken heckles for the Spin Doctors. That sums up the evening nicely.
Got tickets to see Dinosaur Jr w/ Mike Watt at a tiny club in Baltimore in May. The Akron show sold out, and I wasn't feeling the Bloomington show on the day before my birthday, so Baltimore it is! If I want to feel extremely old, I think about seeing Dinosaur Jr as a 15 year old in 1994.
I'm still undecided if Pizza Slayer is one of the best things to happen to the internet, or *the* best thing to happen to the internet.
Sample review: "Some major bogus pizza here. Nothing on this pie even resembled the taste of it. Probably the worst pizza I've ever had in my life, no joke. You could get one of those diet Smart One's veggie lover's frozen pizzas for 3 bucks at the grocery and it'd still be way better than this. 1 out of 5 pies. Truly the 9/11 of pizzas."
if the stock market wasn't crapping it's self on a near daily basis, and i wasn't one inappropriate joke away from being unemployed, i get the feeling i'd be in serious discussions about buying this right now:
http://realestatepartners.ohio.remax.com/listings/ListingDetail_r4.aspx?LID=65212534&#
20 acres is plenty to start a compound, right?
What sites / RSS feeds do you check on a regular basis? About 4 or 5 years ago, I'd hit the following sites almost as a daily ritual:
slashdot
fark
pitchfork
google news
dailyradar
donewaiting
metroboards
blogspot
some random wikipedia page
now, pretty much all of the above have gone to hell in a handbasket. on any given day, i can't say i go out of my way to read anything. maybe i'm old and grumpy. this is what things normally look like now:
hit google homepage for email / calendar / stock quotes / to do list
read puckrackers, the blue jackets hockey blog
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everything that i find relevant is spread out and harder to find. it's not that i've lost interest in reading, or particular hobbies or interests, but i find that the static is getting louder and the content is getting worse.
i mean, i turn 30 in a couple weeks, but sometimes i feel like i'm a couple bad days away from telling the kids to stay off my lawn and reminiscing about my glory days of 17. plus i could totally dunk on the 10 year olds playing basketball next door.
