My brother and his family are coming up for Thanksgiving. Tomorrow, after work, I'll meet them, plus my mother and father, at the airport and we'll all drive down to my parents' place. However, because I am a temp, I'll need to drive back so I can work on Friday. The rest of my nuclear family will drive down to my relatives in Iowa, so my aunts ( Read more... )

Mowing the lawn this afternoon was enough to leave me shaky and light-headed. Alarmed and disappointed, I abandoned my other household maintenance plans and took a nap. I woke up with some serious lower abdominal grumbling, which has yet to abate. Pepto isn't helping much ( Read more... )

So how will I celebrate Labor Day? By laboring! Right now, my summer finale plans consist of yard work and house painting. I don't really mind. Both tasks need doing before it gets cold ( Read more... )

This past weekend I was at my parents' place. It has become a family tradition that I come down on a mid-August weekend for the Steele County Fair. Yeah yeah, don't give me those looks. I genuinely like the Steele County Fair for an afternoon's non-ironic fun. It helps that it's basically like the State Fair, only in a smaller, more manageable ( Read more... )

Friday night the immediate family and I went and saw Johan Santana, of all people, get schooled by the friggin' Tampa Bay Devil Rays 4-2. We've got to stop making the Twins our family outing of choice. We're like poison to them. But the following night, when we weren't at the Metrodome, the Twins pounded them 12-5, so balance was maintained in ( Read more... )

Back in December, it kind of looked like April. Now it's April, and it kind of looks like December. I had a feeling our bizarrely warm and late-starting winter would lead to something like this. It's like Minnesota's calendar shifted four months off track ( Read more... )

( Long-winded account of trip to Florida for the usual holiday stuff. )

I'm rewatching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer out of the corner of one eye, for the whatevereth time, while trying to figure out how to spend the rest of the evening. Man, Santa's really a dick in this. And some of the dialogue is unintentionally amusing: "Hey! What say we be independent together ( Read more... )

Yowza, I've watched a lot of stuff in the past week or so.

Movies
Casino Royale
Borat
Top Secret
March of the Penguins

TV On Cable
Walking With Prehistoric Beasts (Like Walking With Dinosaurs only with prehistoric mammals.)
Walking With Monsters (Like Walking With Dinosaurs only with pre-dinosaur-era creatures.)

TV On Video
Mr. Bean ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that recently I've been a lot more physically active than I can recall being for quite a while. I helped ethel move a few days back. There was all the running around on stage for Watching Porn (not to mention all the furniture/set piece moving.) I saw the celluloid joy of Snakes on a Plane (which wasn't all that physical, but damn ( Read more... )