December 2008
23 posts
Taking Stock 2008: Part Two
2008 in Facial Hair:
Mustache (normal)
Mustache (handlebar)
Goatee
Clean-shaven
Two weeks’ growth
Mustache & mutton chops
Clean-shaven
One weeks’ growth
Clean-shaven
2008 States Visited: Does Alaska seem kinda…squished? It’s so Sarah Palin can see Russia better! (Thanks Google Chart API) Some meaningless statistics:
Twitter followers: 227
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Taking Stock 2008: Part One
Things lost in 2008:
Wife
Kids
Retirement account
Sleep
Things learned in 2008:
I’m pretty much a chump
Life isn’t even remotely fair
When a black guy runs for President, you find out rather quickly which of your friends are closet racists
Things accomplished in 2008:
Car: Paid off
Separation, and most of the financial and legal whatnot that surrounds it
The Memphis...
Aw man, where am I gonna get my babies NOW?
Mississippi lawmaker wants to outlaw “Baby Selling.”
Really? $2000 and a vehicle? That’s cheaper than they’re supposedly going for in China, through legitimate means!
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good... →
Oh sure, this is over-the-top, but if you made it with blue cheese instead and served it with fresh slices of summer tomatoes it would be gourmet.
“Walgreens has the perfect gift for anyone on your list who keeps thinking...”
– hotdogsladies, putting last years’ Christmas present from someone special into stark perspective.
Party! Woo! um...
Failing to have other options from more intimate friends last night, I dropped by a Christmas party thrown by twitterfriend @longtallanimal, hoping to maintain the acquaintance of a younger, hipper crowd, and not spend the evening feeling sorry for myself (a legitimate risk given the season, and some particularly nasty things I’ve read about myself recently.)
It was quite the pleasant...
It almost looks like a Christmas tree! Almost. Which is to say, thanks everyone!
Christmas, so far (Playing with the Google Chart API. This could prove a major distraction.)
Upside-down dogs!
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We drank a toast to innocence, We drank a toast to...
Last night I went to a fundraiser showcase at Theatreworks, which was nice enough, and had the fortune of running into a high school classmate that I hadn’t seen in literally twenty years. I’d only discovered that she lived in Memphis a month or so ago, when a high school reunion email was sent out with all of the email addresses in the To: field, a sin which ordinarily would irk me to...
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If I seem a little groggy...
Had a little trouble getting to sleep—kinda tossed and turned and finally fell out about 12:30 (I guess) this morning. Then at 4:45 my alarm system malfunctions and goes haywire. I sit bolt upright, and in the dark with gunk in my eyes it looks like there’s smoke in the room, so I race to where I keep the fire extinguisher and through the house only to discover that there’s been...
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Minglewood Hall
Over the past couple of days I’ve been hearing a bit of buzz about a new, mysterious concert venue called Minglewood Hall, and a little bit of further research revealed that it was formerly Strings & Things, which was a local musical instrument “mall” with separate stores for electric guitars, acoustic guitars, keyboards, drums, etc. They’ve converted the largely-unused...
No divorce. My case was nearly last on the docket, and the judge had “somewhere to be,” so they will reschedule. Hopefully before years end, because the marriage penalty could be significant. Since I’ve taken the vacation day anyway, I’m going to make it a mental health day and do stuff instead. I came home checked the mail (from yesterday) and discovered a tiny Christmas...
I’ve set up fancycwabs.com to point to my Tumblr account, which will be a hot, steaming pile of various things I write in various places, I think. Including here, but maybe more there as time progresses.
Swear words and foul language. →
No divorce. My case was nearly last on the docket, and the judge had “somewhere to be,” so they will reschedule. Hopefully before years end, because the marriage penalty could be significant. Since…
If I keep using the word disjointure, perhaps it... →
All the remaining Christmas cards are addressed, signed, and packed up and should be mailed today. A little extra something in there boosts the weight to just over the one-stamp limit, so I’ve got…
Noodle Doodle Dō →
Some three weeks ago, a local restauranteuse named Karen Carrier added various noodle dishes to her Dō sushiya, expanded to lunch hours (and extra evening dinners) and branded the venture Noodle…
Disjointure, but all I WANT to tell you about is... →
Yesterday I was looking for a downtown address on Google Maps and remembered (finally) that I wanted to research the story behind “November 6 Street” in Memphis. November 6 is little more than an…
Uncle Lou's Fried Chicken →
I mentioned it previously, but since I changed jobs and it was convenient again, I figured it was high time I visited Uncle Lou’s Fried Chicken for an update. Uncle Lou’s was recently featured on…