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Excuse me while I nerd up the place, but OH MY COW, I AM SO EXCITED! Skyrim comes out in November. I’ve seen several trailers for it and it looks good. See? I’m nervous cause there’s so much for them to screw up. Come on, Bethesda, give it to me good!
I know! I’m terrible! I’ve neglected you once again. You know, I used to look at dogs and think they had it made. Man, if I could be a dog, that would be the life. All they do is lay around the house and sleep until someone feeds them and then they get up, eat, [...]
Jacob sent me the AOLer Translator. Just for kicks I decided to translate an excerpt from my blog. Here’s the original: When I was young I romanticized everything. Everything was a grand adventure and something wonderful to be discovered, even the tedium I didn’t want. I don’t do that so much anymore. These days the [...]
If you’ll remember correctly, and I’m sure you will, last year about this time we went to the Northwest Washington Fair. It was great fun and we decided to give it another go. It was different this time though because last year the boys were but a wee 11 and 12 years old. This meant [...]
matt and i took the boys to the drive-in the other night. it was exactly as i remembered it and not at all as i remembered it. there was a big, open space with cars everywhere and a big screen and a concession stand and the voices came out of our car radio. well, the [...]
as the weather has been so beautiful lately, we decided to walk down to the lake for a bit of fresh air tonight. when we got there, we found this little guy: he’s cute, right? but he was alone. there were no other ducks. he was also very hungry. he kept trying to eat trash [...]
the weather was beautiful today. warm and sunny with just the slightest breeze. matt & i went to the tulip festival and of course i took my camera. i played around with the macro & telephoto lens he got me for my birthday. you should totally go check out my gallery. i mean, if you [...]
tonight i had a house full of boys. five of them. youngest just turned 5 and the oldest just turned 12. let me tell you: you haven’t lived. my brother is getting married, right? right. i know! i’m surprised too. that someone would even want to share a car ride with him, much less a [...]
there are so many funny, witty, creative, stupid people out there. and, in case you’re wondering, if you didn’t know…the best way to clean the LCD screen on a notebook can be learned below. sort of. i googled. and honest to god, i’m not kidding or embellishing, this is an exact c&p of what i [...]
A Woman's Manifesto
Because a woman’s work is never done.
and is underpaid, or unpaid, or boring, or repetitious,
and we’re the first to get fired,
and what we look like is more important than what we do.
And if we get raped its our fault
and if we get beaten we must have provoked it
and if we raise our voices we’re nagging bitches
and if we enjoy sex we’re nymphos
and if we don’t we’re frigid
and if we love women it’s because we can’t get a real man
and if we ask our doctor too many questions we’re neurotic or pushy
and if we expect childcare we’re selfish
and if we stand up for our rights we’re aggressive and un-feminine
and if we don’t we’re typical weak females
and if we want to get married we’re out to trap a man
and if we don’t we’re unnatural
and because we still can’t get an adequate, safe contraceptive, but men can walk on the moon
and if we can’t cope or don’t want a pregnancy we’re made to feel guilty about abortion
and for lots and lots of other reasons
we are part of the women’s liberation movement.- Joyce Stevens, International Woman’s Day, 1975.

Man Vs. Heart Attack
I am somewhat worried about the dude on Man v Food. He isn’t looking so good these days and putting that food away like that can’t be good for him.
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's horrible burden; one which breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without cease.
But with what? With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.
And if, at some time, on steps of a palace, in the green grass of a ditch, in the bleak solitude of your room, you are waking and the drunkenness has already abated, ask the wind, the wave, the stars, the clock, all that which flees, all that which groans, all that which rolls, all that which sings, all that which speaks, ask them, what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the stars, the birds, and the clock, they will all reply:
"It is time to get drunk!
So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk, get drunk, and never pause for rest! With wine, poetry, or virtue, as you choose!"
Charles Baudelaire
















