61 degrees, cloudy
smelling: chili in the slow cooker
Supposed to referee a couple over-30 games tonight, assuming the weather cooperates. For some reason, the adults are always even more intent on killing each other on Friday night than on Sunday afternoon. I'm sure it will be doubly fun on a wet, slippery field.
Glade or one of those companies like that should come up with a "chili in the slow cooker" scent for their little plug-in products.
Haircut today finally ... and holy moly was the haircutter chatty.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Spoiler: They never get to China.
72 degrees, partly cloudy
watching: Pardon the Interruption
Finished the aforementioned book of short stories (Tunneling to the Center of the Earth -- Kevin Wilson). Pretty remarkable read. Easily a 9 out of 10 for me. Props to the fancy wife for bringing something good home from the library.
watching: Pardon the Interruption
Finished the aforementioned book of short stories (Tunneling to the Center of the Earth -- Kevin Wilson). Pretty remarkable read. Easily a 9 out of 10 for me. Props to the fancy wife for bringing something good home from the library.
"...the things you do, my goodbye girl, will bring me back to you..."
74 degrees, partly cloudy
listening: XM Radio - The Loft (Rickie Lee Jones - "Wild Girl")
Happy 62nd birthday to Richard Dreyfuss. Loved him in The Goodbye Girl and The American President, which happen to be 2 of my all-time favorite movies. Remember sitting in the hotel bar of the Hotel Edison in New York one night with my mother, looking out the window that faces 47th Street when there was a minor commotion across the street and it turned out to be people surrounding Richard Dreyfuss for autographs as he was leaving through the stage door of one of the Broadway district theatres. Could barely see him in the crowd, he's so small.
On a side note, David Gates' title song for The Goodbye Girl is brilliant and almost brings me to tears every time I hear it. Yeah, I said it.
listening: XM Radio - The Loft (Rickie Lee Jones - "Wild Girl")
Happy 62nd birthday to Richard Dreyfuss. Loved him in The Goodbye Girl and The American President, which happen to be 2 of my all-time favorite movies. Remember sitting in the hotel bar of the Hotel Edison in New York one night with my mother, looking out the window that faces 47th Street when there was a minor commotion across the street and it turned out to be people surrounding Richard Dreyfuss for autographs as he was leaving through the stage door of one of the Broadway district theatres. Could barely see him in the crowd, he's so small.
On a side note, David Gates' title song for The Goodbye Girl is brilliant and almost brings me to tears every time I hear it. Yeah, I said it.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Happy Happy Joy Joy
70 degrees, fair
watching: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
So the fancy wife is meeting old work friends for "happy hour" tonight, which made me wonder about the origin of happy hours. Ask and Wikipedia will provide:
-- The term originated in the United States Navy. In the 1920s, “happy hour” was slang for a scheduled entertainment period on board a ship during which boxing and wrestling bouts took place, this was a valuable opportunity for sailors to let off the steam accumulated during the long periods at sea ... "Happy hour" entered civilian use around 1960, especially after a Saturday Evening Post article in 1959. --
Interesting tidbit this also -- "Happy hour has been illegal in the Republic of Ireland since 2003 under the Intoxicating Liquor Act." The what??
watching: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
So the fancy wife is meeting old work friends for "happy hour" tonight, which made me wonder about the origin of happy hours. Ask and Wikipedia will provide:
-- The term originated in the United States Navy. In the 1920s, “happy hour” was slang for a scheduled entertainment period on board a ship during which boxing and wrestling bouts took place, this was a valuable opportunity for sailors to let off the steam accumulated during the long periods at sea ... "Happy hour" entered civilian use around 1960, especially after a Saturday Evening Post article in 1959. --
Interesting tidbit this also -- "Happy hour has been illegal in the Republic of Ireland since 2003 under the Intoxicating Liquor Act." The what??
Most Obnoxious Fans. Ever.
64 degrees, fair
reading: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth -- Kevin Wilson
World Series starts tonight. Yankees-Phillies. Hate them both.
reading: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth -- Kevin Wilson
World Series starts tonight. Yankees-Phillies. Hate them both.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Time, I Guess.
53 degrees, light rain
watching: Law & Order: SVU
I really need a haircut. But I hate getting haircuts. It's painful, sitting captive in a chair, surrounded by mirrors, being forced to or at least expected to make trivial small talk. There's something that rings slightly of a higher-tech psychological torture about the whole thing.
Speaking of trivia (I was -- I said "trivial" above), trivia tonight at T-Joe's. Reminder to self: check today's happenings in history on Wikipedia.
Considering attempting NaNoWriMo in November. Now all I need is a plot, some characters, a setting, and an attention span. No problem. Here are a couple candidates:
-- A writer goes to a ghost town in Western Australia to research a historical novel. Something interesting happens.
-- What happened in the lives of each of the characters in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to bring them all to the diner that night. (12:01 pm - edit - never mind, not surprisingly this has been done before ... same idea, but based on a more obscure painting ... perhaps the woman in Hopper's Western Motel)
watching: Law & Order: SVU
I really need a haircut. But I hate getting haircuts. It's painful, sitting captive in a chair, surrounded by mirrors, being forced to or at least expected to make trivial small talk. There's something that rings slightly of a higher-tech psychological torture about the whole thing.
Speaking of trivia (I was -- I said "trivial" above), trivia tonight at T-Joe's. Reminder to self: check today's happenings in history on Wikipedia.
Considering attempting NaNoWriMo in November. Now all I need is a plot, some characters, a setting, and an attention span. No problem. Here are a couple candidates:
-- A writer goes to a ghost town in Western Australia to research a historical novel. Something interesting happens.
-- What happened in the lives of each of the characters in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to bring them all to the diner that night. (12:01 pm - edit - never mind, not surprisingly this has been done before ... same idea, but based on a more obscure painting ... perhaps the woman in Hopper's Western Motel)
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