The best remedy to a bad day at work is to hang out on the floor of your daughter’s bedroom and try to pick out constellations, or make up some new ones, from the glow-in-the-dark stars on her ceiling.
Author: Joel
‘The Man’ Keepin’ Me Down
On Mondays and Wednesdays I pick up the Young Extroverted One from school. It’s on Mondays, however, that I take her back to work with me. Mainly because the technician that works with me has prior obligations on Monday nights. So, after many weeks of the YEO hanging out in my office playing some sort of Diego game on my computer the director of food and beverage tells me yesterday that I can’t have the YEO on property any more. WTF?!? This is after the director of sales has seen her and talked to her Continue reading “‘The Man’ Keepin’ Me Down”
“Aaaaah, if anything will get you up in the morning it’s chewing on some cold squirrel bones.”
My latest man crush (besides Alton Brown) is Les Stroud of ‘Surivorman’. The premise of the show basically is that he goes out into the wilderness for 7 days and tries to survive off of the land. With his history of film-making and survivor-ing his show is a great marriage between them both. Sometimes he has these scenarios where all he has with him are his multi-tool and whatever else he came with.
Les Stroud is the man. He carries all his camera gear himself. He sets up intricate shots where he’ll walk ahead set the camera and hit record, walk back to pick up the rest of his gear and then walk through the shot and then have to walk back to pick up the camera. Whew, that’s a lot of work considering he hardly eats anything.
I read “Into the Wild” again recently in preparation for seeing Sean Penn‘s film based on the book. I would love to get in touch with Les to get his thoughts on Chris McCandless and his lack of surviving in the Alaskan wild. Maybe I would even suggest an episode of ‘Survivorman’ where Les hangs out where McCandless did. If there was a way to do it respectfully that would be a cool show. I just think it would end up showing us that McCandless wasn’t too smart in the ways of surviving. He was more into the romance of it. You gotta use your brain out there, too.
Quotable Quotes VIII
As we pulled off of I-40 to get on Highway 9 into Black Mountain on Thursday we did our traditional/ceremonial rolling down of the windows to take in that Blue Ridge Mountain air.
Us: “Do you smell that Young Extroverted One?”
YEO: “Yeah, it smells like dog.”
Quotable Quotes VII
This was from a conversation we had while we were at our church’s family retreat on 9/15/2007.
Young Extroverted One: “Dad, I’m happy I’m a girl.”
Me: “Oh yeah? Why?”
YEO: “Because girls have babies.”
This Goes Out to All My Bros, Both Real and Adopted
. . . your brotitude is so brossential that, in many ways, you are the ultimate brototype: You sprung out of the brotean ooze at the very broment of creation, unformed, unmolded, and became the ultimate bro, more powerful than any who came brofore. I don’t fear your power, bro, but I respect it. And I will always brobey it.Brosemite Sam. Potassium Bromide. Brobi Wan Kenobi. Brover Norquist.Like Broseph Stalin, you are leading the way to the dictatorship of the broletariate. It is truly revbrolutionary. Like the Bro v. Wade of our generation. You brobliterate the enemy from the very peak of Mt. Brolympus. That’s some shit. That’s brolific. But that’s the kind of bro you are.
Bro-S.A.! Bro-S.A.! I’m so pumped right now! Bro-S.A.!
You are the epitome of bro, in every brossible way, and that’s the Bro’s honest truth, bro. I may have a bropensity for broverstatement, but this no mere hyperbrole: You are 100 brocent, absbrolutely the broest. Brotally.
I wish I had the words to describe what a good friend you are, dude.
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht
or “Be still, stop chattering” Also known as The Coffee Cantata.
“If I can’t drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.”
(h/t:
My Beautiful Wickedness)
This is what I come up with when all I’m doing at the moment is surfing through favorite blogs that have led me to other blogs I don’t normally read. I have never heard of this cantata. I will now have to find said cantata and possibly add a snippet of it to my phone as a new ringtone or maybe an alarm to wake up to.
That’s all I got today as I sit at work babysitting some meetings whose companies have the audacity to hold meetings in my hotel on a Saturday! Those bastards! On top of that it’s a home game for Vandy and considering we have the team holding their defense and offense meetings before the game and the stadium is directly behind the hotel I’d much rather be at home than right here.
I’ll leave you with this snippet of the cantata with which I dedicate and give a shout out to the Rev Java Dude:
- Aria Lieschen
- Mm! how sweet the coffee tastes, more delicious than a thousand
kisses, mellower than muscatel wine. Coffee, coffee I must have, and if
someone wishes to give me a treat, ah, then pour me out some coffee!
technorati tags:coffee, vanderbilt, commodores, bach, coffee, cantata
Blogged with Flock
Squished that Thang Real Good
I’m not a violent guy. In fact, I abhor pain. Pain that would accompany a strong punch to the face or midsection. Maybe that’s why I watch hockey but don’t play hockey. But, when I see a Brown Recluse spider on my bathroom counter I conjure up all the rage that I can carry within in this sorta-hippie, peace-loving body of mine and squish that little sucker with such vengence I worry that I will crack the countertop and wake up my beautiful wife.
I’m from Wisconsin! Who Do You Think I’m Going to Cheer For?
I’m more of a hockey guy, but, tonight I am going to bask in the greatness that is the Green Bay Packers as they take on the Tennessee Titans in their last preseason game! I’m not big on preseason games but this is the only chance that this Wisconsin-boy can see his team of the homeland.
Heck, the last time I vaguely remember seeing the Packers play was back when I was little and they played at Milwaukee County Stadium. All I remember is that it was very cold and my mom saw some dude dancing naked on top of an RV after the game. Must’ve been a good game! I don’t even remember the year.
Must have started drinking earlier than usual on the day of the game.
Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt
Well, I survived 35 years on this planet. Or is it mathmatically 34? However it works out I’m glad to still be here!
Yesterday b-day recollections in a nutshell:
- Birthday morning Kroger-brand blueberry loaf(?) and danishes with the youth group at church:
around 5 or 10 bucks (not really sure the Elder Extroverted Holy One bought ’em)
- Birthday dinner at Bosco’s
free for me ’cause I’m a member of the Beer Police! =)
- A couple of fine pints at Bosco’s
$4.50 each (or priceless as far as I’m concerned)
- Home-made cake by EEHO and the Young Extroverted One and so artfully decorated by the YEO
PRICELESS