Friend of mine took me to the Hurricanes game tonight as a going away present. He has season tickets and I usually go with him to one game a year ( Read more... )

Okay, so this isn't Bangkok, it's Amsterdam. Best I can figure it's New Orleans on crack. And I mean that literally ( Read more... )

We all think we're good people. No matter how much we fuck up, how many hearts we break, how many deadly sins we commit, how much trouble we cause in the churling wake of our miscalculations and mistakes. We have to. It's all pre-determined in the destiny of the human condition. We'll always want what we can't have, and we justify that with the ( Read more... )

Tigers!I have seen a few posts this morning, and certainly heard on the radio on the drive into work, reminding me that today is the second anniversary of the planes flying into the World Trade Center ( Read more... )

I just noticed it's day 8 without soda. I think I'm doing pretty well. No major cravings for it. I'm surprised how well it's gone so far and am kinda excited about it. I miss it most at meals because it cleansed the palatte so well. Lemonade doesn't do that and water just sort of mutes everything.

I have started to get sick, though.
( tmi )

"I can see now that I never really committed to Laura. I always had one foot out the door and that prevented me from me doing a lot of things ... like thinking about my future. I guess it made more senese to committ to nothing, keep my options open. And that's suicide. By tiny, tiny increments."
Rob Gordon (John Cusack) in High Fidelity

You know, it's interesting to note that since I stopped drinking soda on Monday, I haven't had any need to use the Tums for acid reflux-type stuff.

I'm sure this is just a coincedence.

"There is nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthesis for that."

Lt. Col. Frank Slade (Al Pacino) from Scent of a Woman

Rule No. 2342152:

Never send a smoker to get you something (in this case a soda) from the breakroom right next to the smoking porch.

Mmmmhmmm, I love cheese.

Espcially Mozzarella.