The weekend was quite fun, spending it in Providence with D&A, watching some of the anime I had: Kare Kano and Hellsing, and generally relaxing ( Read more... )

I went and bought an acoustic guitar yesterday. I got a good deal from a reputable store and while I got one that wasn't too fancy it sounds good (at least it did when the store employee played it). Right now I've got a few chords down and am waiting for my left forearm to adapt to holding down multiple strings in odd configurations as I plod ( Read more... )

Last weekend was very fun as not only did I go to the kiddens birthday party, two of my non-FGS friends had what amounted to a long weekend-long double birthday party. I also watched the Transporter 2, which I enjoyed as a good martial arts action movie (mmm... combat firehoses). My friend and fellow martial artist (Tang Soo Do though and not Tae Kwon ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday I saw Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers while I was at the Cape with my aforementioned uncle, aunt, grandmother and parents. It was a good concert and I learned that Bruce Hornsby did the song "The Way It Is", and was a pianist for the Grateful Dead*. He's pretty hard to put into one kind of music and he was very versatile on stage ( Read more... )

Last week I had a long stretch of having no internet or cell phone reception at my disposal and once again realized what the early 80's were like. However the reason for this was that my uncle, aunt, grandmother, parents and I were having a grand old time at the Cape for five days. Seeing as I rarely if ever get to see my Californian mother's ( Read more... )

This is a follow up to my Rain, Rain post. So Saturday I discovered that my car was stuttering and shivering and a foreign light appeared on my dashboard - neither the engine nor the oil. It seems the stupid flood on the road last week also happened to short out some wires and my starter. A couple hundred dollars later I was on my way with a ( Read more... )

I had some very good steak tips last night at a Norwood restaurant called Conrads. Moist, juicy, with a sauce that was tasty without being very salty and a nice side of potatoe and 16 oz lager. There's really nothing quite like meat, potatoe and beer when you're in the mood, I've gotta say ( Read more... )

So I stepped into my car this morning only to realize that the water on the road from Monday night's storm (which seriously created lagoons on VFW parkway) had managed to seep up into my car while driving through them and made it smell like wet dog. It does go away after a few seconds of driving real fast with the windows open... Time to test the ( Read more... )

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