1. My original plans for Friday night were thrown out when my mother's sister Barbara died earlier this week. My parents stopped at my house on Friday night en route to the funeral on Saturday. The three of us and M shared a matzo kugel and pot of matzo ball soup ( Read more... )

Tonight pussygalore66 and I saw the The Black Keys at Quicken Loans Arena. This marked two milestones.

[1] This was the tenth time I had seen The Black Keys perform. This broke a tie with Freekbass (formerly Freebass) and officially makes The Black Keys the band I've seen the most times in concert ( Read more... )

I originally planned to spend my Record Exchange gift card (courtesy of my mother-in-law) today for the new Black Keys album Brothers. Then xhollydayx and I took a break from cooking and swung by the bag sale at the Cleveland West Park library branch ( Read more... )

xhollydayx made brownies and sent them to work with me on Wednesday. Here's the email I sent out ( Read more... )

Did you know that the Soviets built a ridiculously huge statue of Mother Russia as a war memorial at Stalingrad? It's 279 feet tall, or more than 120 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.

I've read a great many books this year, but rather oddly a sports novel by John Grisham is one of the ones that I'll remember the longest. Playing for Pizza ( Read more... )

So on Saturday, October 11, the Black Keys are playing at EJ Thomas Hall in their hometown of Akron, OH. Originally, xhollydayx and I were going to go with our friend PK and one of his friends. However, PK now cannot attend, so he has two tickets that he has asked me to unload.

Here's the EJ Thomas seating chart. Assuming that I'm reading the tickets ( Read more... )