LJ friends, your prodigal son has returned. As most of you know, I've been living back at home for nearly a year due to money concerns and such, and as a result I've been sort of dead to the world. The four-hour round trip commute doesn't do much for my desire to drive back to the DC Metro area...but I digress. I miss this LJ, not to mention the ( Read more... )

Wow...three weeks away from my LJ? I suppose I'd better update things before I wind up on the side of a milk carton. What's new in this guy's world? I'm still a writing fool:

-Over at Crunchable, I discussed the horrors of sprickets and the ups and downs of traveling up I-81 to my family's cottage in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Hopefully the site ( Read more... )

It was quite an eventful weekend in my world. Friday night, I put the whip to each of the 100 monkeys at 100 PCs, and finally launched my long-talked-of website! It is rightchere - NumerOlogy: The Uniform Number History of the Baltimore Orioles. Check that out, it's got a real domain name and everything. Classy. Since it launched, I've already ( Read more... )

That's right, my big gift for Christmas this year was an HP scanner/printer/copier combo, the better to scan baseball cards and photos for my new website, which is coming tantalizingly close to launch. But I just got it hooked up and tested, so I thought I'd share one of my favorite photos ever with you guys. The following is from Christmas 1986, ( Read more... )

Happy Boxing Day, everyone! I don't know about you, but I punched the first three people I saw today before someone explained to me what "Boxing Day" really meant. Whoops.

Here are the highlights of my Christmas experience this year, bullet-pointed and in more or less chronological order:

-Driving home to join the family on Saturday, I listened to ( Read more... )

Yep, just one day after my latest Crunchable article was published, in which I detail my many trials and travails as a motorist, I got my policy renewal information from Geico. Between making it through a whole calendar year without totaling a car and reaching the milestone age of twenty-five, my monthly premium has been slashed by $52. That's a ( Read more... )

Well, my first post-Coriolanus weekend was an eventful, and gloriously long, one.

Friday I took a half-day and met up with Mikey (marred82) and Julianne (browneydgirl8) for a long-overdue trip to Chestertown. We gaped in horror at the half-demolished remains of the Gibson Fine Arts Building and Tawes Theatre, which won't be completely refurbished for another two years ( Read more... )

Getting my shills out of the way up front: I wrote the Snackable this week; it's about meeting Brian Vander Ark (formerly of The Verve Pipe) at Lauren and Andy's birthday party.  Go read it, and come back, if you please.

I suppose it was inevitable; summer is ending.  I know this to be so because my teacher friends spent yesterday griping about ( Read more... )

As you may know, I spent last week getting some good ol' R and R at the family cottage in Northeastern Pennsylvania.  I enjoyed the company of my parents and their friends, an older married couple named Jean and Ron.  They're good people, but Ron in particular is something else.  At the age of 62, he is very much an old curmudgeon: his pop culture ( Read more... )

Or, rather, surprise!  (Ten points to the first person to get the reference.  It would be Mikey in a slam dunk, if he ever actually read my entries.)  I'm at work and all of the software is down!  Commence muttering.  So, where have I been?  There's Faustus.  It was better than I'd expected, considering all the potholes in the rehearsal process.  ( Read more... )