I've once again won post of the week over at Best Thing EverI think I'm the last person to get nothing for it, rather than the first person to get something. But if I do end up profiting, I feel like I should probably share with Josh. So, Josh, you may just be 2.5 dollars richer today than you were yesterday ( Read more... )

Robert Fulghum has an essay somewhere where he talks about small miracles. The little things we don't often properly appreciate. Things like the time you drop a glass and it bounces three times and doesn't break. Or the lady that rear-ends you, but doesn't damage either vehicle. When your deposit clears right before the check it has to cover. ( Read more... )

"Do not speak unless you can improve upon the silence" is a saying I stole from Lindsey. Google says it's a Quaker saying ( Read more... )

I lent Chris a cd at last year's Dance Trance. I got it back this week. 9 months in a glove compartment adds character to a CD. I threw it in the CD player in the car, just to make sure that its newfound character didn't adversely affect audio quality. So, all this week I've been listening to Counting Crows' "Hard Candy" going to & from work. ( Read more... )

At dinner on Sunday, it somehow came up that I enjoyed washing dishes as a child. And because I was dancing 17 of the past 48 hours, with 3 hours dedicated to calling & choreography, dance was even more on my mind than usual. I compared it to a balance & swing, and everyone laughed and said I was crazy. Because I'd only had 12 hours of sleep in ( Read more... )

Everyone knows that times are tough ( Read more... )

Backstory is HereIn 2007, I mailed my extra copy of the book & a journal to a friend ( Read more... )

So, a few weeks back I tried calling contras at the 3rd friday thing at the Carlbergs'. I called a couple really simple dances and a more complicated dance. None of the lines disintegrated, so I count it a success. It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. I'm looking into dances I can try this month ( Read more... )

So, best_thing_ever is a community where every week there's a poll asking you to choose between 2 different things. Over the course of a year, these things are eventually whittled down to a single item which is determined to be the best thing ever. The first year I was watching it, Oxygen won to the disappointment of many ( Read more... )

When people say "I want " I've been fond of replying "It's good to want things." I can't say my girlfriends thought it was as clever as I did. Going through some old papers, I happened upon a stack saved only because I'd written quotes on the reverse. I found the following ( Read more... )