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Thursday, November 23, 2006
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Happy Thanksgiving and a quick news flash...
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First, Happy Thanksgiving to all! And a quick Fetafilter newsflash: Cassie was caught totally off her guard last Saturday by her surprise wedding shower. Fetafilter roving staph photographer-on-the-scene, Tessa "Bofishie" A., using the latest in high-tech photographinc gear, caught this awesome action shot of the moment of maxium surprise! Digital scientific analysis of of this photo by the CIA, FBI, NSA and the Fetafilter Tech-team, has confirmed the authenticity of the surprise. Along with the obvious "knowing grin" sported by the lovely SJ, note the (clearly un-staged) wad of green gum, stuck to Cassie's left lower cuspid and first molar. True surprise! Great shot, Tess!! |
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| thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 10:40 AM | |
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Monday, November 13, 2006
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I heard it myself...
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Driving home from work today, I heard an ad on the talk radio station for some prescription medication that is supposed to help you get to sleep. Near the end of the ad, they read off the obligatory list of risks, warnings and potential side-effects of the drug. One of the warnings is: ...May cause Drowsiness. Duh. |
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| thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 5:28 PM | |
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Sunday, November 05, 2006
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Quick wit
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Date: Thursday Setting: New Endland Medical Center, Three hour wait for various doctors and tests Dilemma: Keeping an eight year old occupied during the wait Mom: Looks cross-eyed at Ray Ray: Turns left eye out (an amazing trick he has done since very young) "I see two mommys" Mom: "I think I'll call you Dennis" Ray: "I'm just like Dennis only I'm thin and my jokes are funny" sorry PB, we love you mega much, but it was just too witty not to post |
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| thus voiced Mrs A @ 8:28 AM | |
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Saturday, November 04, 2006
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Friends in high places
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Chaz and I have, with the help of a most kind neighbor, spent the last few days re-roofing the back part of the house. I have been dodging this job for near 2 years, but could not do so any longer, as winter is comming fast and the roof leaks. Now I have done a fair amout of roofing, having been a contractor in a past life, but I still don't like it. I like standing on roofs and other high places, the views are often good and the perspective is always unusual. I like the end result, but the process is not fun. Everything about roofing seems designed to make you miserable. Everything is heavy, sticky, hot and covered with scratchy abrasive stuff. You tend to cut yourself alot. You work in a sort of hunched over posture that hurts your back. You spend alot of time walking around on your knees over scratchy abrasive stuff. The weather is almost always too hot or too cold. And you always have to carry all of that heavy, sticky, scratchy stuff up a ladder. It might be more fun if it was done on the to the ground, though that would mess up the view. Falling off of a roof, always a possibility, is no fun at all. The roof we are doing is very close to the ground and the pitch is not steep, so that part is easy. But because it is so flat, we are doing a "rolled-roof" which requires the use of large amounts of tar-like goo called lap cement. This is sort of like the sealer stuff people spread on thier driveways, but far, far more gooey, sticky and obnoxious. It is 100% impossible to use this stuff and not get it all over yourself and everything else you go near for 2 days. You spread this stuff with a wierd looking broom-thing that seems utterly the wrong tool for the job. No fun at all. Perhaps all that explains why almost all of the roofers I have met, with only a few exceptions, have been either really crabby guys, drunks or both. Go figure. |
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| thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 9:22 PM | |
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