So, the piano and TV Lift have gone ( Read more... )

I had quite the wake-up Monday morning ( Read more... )

My mother's tight-knit group of little-old-lady friends love me. I feed them, and I am a gentleman (an entity that is increasingly rare in our modern, enlightened society). They are The Ladies, first and foremost.

Yesterday I was chatting with the inestimable bixxy about plans for the up-coming holiday weekend. The Fourth will probably see my ( Read more... )

How I hate to hear
silence, after the bright beep
Leave a message please

Every once in awhile, there's a LOLz that gets me. This is one of those times:


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I now know what an Amaranth flower is. I didn't before ( Read more... )

So I get an email at work this afternoon from Clay, as follows:

From: [Clay], [Absurdly Huge Corporation]
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 2:32 PM
To: Klein, Lawrence J.
Subject: Unk, Man-Gani, Tok-Tok !

Just in case a Rampaging Elephant is attacking you right now, please speak the above subject line to save your life and surrounding village. The ( Read more... )

After my uncle's funeral on Sunday, friends and family were invited back to my cousins home for food and reminiscence, as is often done after such occasions ( Read more... )

From my friend Ralph. He is a nut-bar.

Conversational Spanish

1) Sobame el mono. = Pet my monkey.
2) Sobame el mono de nuevo. = Pet my monkey again.
3) Me gusta como sobas mi mono. = I like how you pet my monkey.
4) Besame el mono. = Kiss my monkey.
5) A mi mono le gusta como besas. = My monkey likes the way you kiss.
6) Sigue besandolo. = Keep ( Read more... )

Mister dsign recently commented in illuminated_sin's journal about an experience I had a few years ago. This was relevant to a discussion about "the perception that non-Americans have of just what constitutes American food." I thought I'd relate my experience in this area.

In August of 2002 I was on a work assignment in Munich, Germany for a month. Germans being ( Read more... )