Archive for July, 2008
unbelievable awesomeness
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008I would like all two of you to go read about how, with a lot of focus and practice and presumably some natural talent, an actual real-life person can enter the running (rolling) for something really, really spectacularly badass.
I mean, the Olympics are one thing, but dude, this is kind of seriously huge to me. [...]
home, sweet jerks
Saturday, July 12th, 2008I will not say I never knew that getting home from vacation is often the best part of any trip, because I totally knew that. I will simply say that it’s been especially sweet thus far.
The trip home was fine, mostly. Apparently a thunderhead imploded in Waukegan, just north of Chicago, which created a 20-minute [...]
TINY FROG FTW!
Monday, July 7th, 2008A late entry to the pictoral account of our Stigler visit: One (1) tiny, tiny frog, catching sun in the wading pool.
…. aaand Fire.
Sunday, July 6th, 2008Normalcy is the last thing I’ll claim is happening to me, people, but two days in Stigler has at least reminded me of the finer things in life. Those are, in no particular order:
explosives
homemade beer
potato cannons
smoked meat
beans
board games
tiny dogs
naps
relatives who mostly look after your three-year-old
tiny grandmothers who take shit from no one
thunderstorms that hit [...]
boom.
Friday, July 4th, 2008We have Oklahoma, ladies and gentlemen. The flight was brief and we started earlier than we needed to. I didn’t get coffee until too late, which led to me typing the following.
The phrase “Cognitive Dissonance” doesn’t get used as often as it should when describing the baffling array of stimuli many of us face on [...]