wow. i know i kind of dropped off for a while trying to do this A to Z blogging thing, but i didn't think that entry A was over a year ago. I guess it's time to catch up.

when i was really young, i was self-conscious about the fact that i didn't have a middle name, so i pretended that i had one. I started to sign my name with a J middle ( Read more... )

i get promotional emails from Eddie Bauer since i shop there often enough and have one of those reward card thingys.

This morning's promotional email was: "25% Off Your Purchase When You Buy Pants Or Jeans."

it made me blink. Because aren't jeans a type of pants? why is there a need to separate out jeans from the rest of the pants? maybe ( Read more... )

def leppard and nirvana were fairly notorious for having a singing style that required you to have some sort of specialized deciphering ability to understand what the eff they were saying.

are they any current bands out that have that sort of trend? not that i listen to a lot of current music, but i can't think of any off of the top of my head ( Read more... )

mom and dad's english names are bert and joyce. one syllable.

my brother and my names are felix and mendel. two syllables.

makes me think that if i were to have a kid, it should have a three syllable name.

and of course i'd encourage all of my future generations to keep going. somewhere down the years it'd be fun to see it progress, ( Read more... )

recently, "oosh" has become my new "ugh", "Cheers," has become my new "Regards,", and "awesome" has taken over "fantastic" where "fantastic" had once overtaken "awesome".

the last is annoying. i guess i need to watch series one of doctor who again.

when one says that they're "down with [blank]", that's a positive thing.

when one says that they're "up for [blank]", that's also a positive thing.

when one says "that's right", that's a positive affirmation.

so you'd think that anything regarding "left" should also imply some sort of positive something, but "left" isn't used as that sort ( Read more... )

here's an idea: bring back the fb concept of the obligatory "is", but instead of making it "is", make it a different verb every day. maybe one verb for every day of the week.

sometimes i come home from the casino between 5-7am, particularly if i don't get there until after 10pm. When that happens, i'll sometimes hit up McDonalds because the one thing that i can tolerate from McDonalds is their breakfast biscuits.

today mcdonalds was unexpectedly closed due to some sort of issue, so i decided to hit up walgreens ( Read more... )

so i'm playing in a $18,000 guarantee tournament right now. I just suffered a loss in chips getting all in preflop 66 vs 10 10, so i was medium short stack.

in the small blind i get 10J. everyone folds around to me. Decent heads up hand, and i'm glad to have a fold, so i push all in. bb calls and has A7. board comes 89xxQ, giving me a ( Read more... )

people that know me know that i generally don't use capitalization all that much, partially because of laziness and partially because for philosophical reasons, particularly the capitalization of the word 'i'.

when it comes to proper names, i tend to not capitalize. i talk about mark or megan or kim or bryson or whoever and usually it's all ( Read more... )