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3 minutes my DIMPLED PINK ASS.

Putzworthy

Kanye says “sorry.” Er, wait, that’s: “SORRY!!!11!!!”
I’M SOOOOO SORRY TO TAYLOR SWIFT AND HER FANS AND HER MOM.
GOOD START, KANYE!
EVERYBODY WANNA BOOOOO ME BUT I’M A FAN OF REAL POP CULTURE!!!
Oh, if only I had known you were a fan of pop culture! I wouldn’t have immediately said to my wife, “Wow, [...]

I’ll take a bowl

This would be the best “soup and sandwich” deal ever.

Particularly if the sandwich is a beer.

Move, B, get out the way

Can someone explain to me this behavior? You’re walking down a hallway, and someone is coming from the opposite direction. It’s a big hallway, so there’s plenty of room for you to pass each other, but the person coming your way was sort of in the center, and refuses to yield, forcing you to walk [...]

Whew

Good gravy, what a day. At work we racked six (6) large unix servers, which requires putting special slidey rails into big racks, then taking them out and doing it again, because we either put them in backwards or used the wrong screws, meaning that the server could fall out of the rails and crunch. [...]

Idyllic as hell

Found this pretty field of clover whilst out on a hike yesterday. Not five minutes later I came upon a group of high-schoolers who asked if I had any rolling papers.

The words of boys

(For ease-of-reading, any speech below attributed to little boys has been translated into adult English, so that you don’t have to read text like “Thaniel, can you klay wif me?”)
Charles, like many kids his age, is remarkably literal. If I have to chastise him for not eating, I will often unthinkingly say things like, [...]

You don’t say

Wow, really? I never would have known. (Full disclosure: I hate American Idol and believe it to be the reason that America is going to hell in a handbasket.)

Greek festivus

We had a fantastic time at the Greek Festival at Holy Trinity on Tuesday:

Sarah and Josephine met Charles and me there, and my parents showed up later, so that we could all enjoy Greek beer, lamb sandwiches, Spanakopita, all that good stuff. Delicious, satisfying, and fun. Charles even picked out a cheap bracelet [...]

Heavy metal

Are marching band geeks athletes? Heck yes. I do have some experience with this; I can report that my first year of college, after I stopped doing marching band, I gained roughly 40 pounds. Of course, most of my meals that year consisted of Corn Pops, but still.