byrneunit

I rarely know what you’re talking about.

The Day I Accounted for the Past Three Days.

Okay, so let’s see here.
Friday
Friday was The Day I Started Reading an Actual Book Instead of Playing Goddamn Video Games All the Fucking Time. Perhaps it’s best I didn’t use that as a post title, as it’s kind of long and unwieldy.
Yeah, so I’ve been in this infinite loop lately where I work all day, [...]

The Day We Got All This Snow.

I woke up today to find about six inches and rapidly counting of new snow, and it was really exciting.
No, seriously, listen: I keep hearing from my family and friends how Oklahoma keeps getting blizzard after blizzard, and all the while we’ve had the barest dusting of snow malingering barely visible at the [...]

The Day I Saw a Major Award

I saw this in the window of the apartment building across from the coffee shop about 45 minutes ago, and it’s been making me chuckle ever since.
That’s right, people. This is A Major Award.
I love this town.

The Day I Had to Buy a New Car Battery

We were dropping Henry at school, and Erin was gonna drop me at the coffee shop afterward. I work there frequently, exercising my limitless freedom as a telecommuter by purchasing sandwiches I can’t afford. We stopped in the bus zone, put the blinkers on, and stood around in the snow as Henry made little snowballs [...]

the things you find out.

So here’s something I came across in the past year and a half and didn’t bother telling anyone about. I had a temp job this spring proofreading grocery circulars, as sadly that’s become one of my areas of expertise. Catercorner from the building I worked in for a few weeks was this strange little building, [...]

Liveblog: The Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade

People, I don’t have the space or time to properly list what I love about this city. But one of them is that we’ve got our own goddamn Thanksgiving Day Parade, and it’s a magnificent mix of big-city production values, local-news dorkiness, and genuine small-down WTF. I’m starting late, but this is our day morning, [...]

bizarre liquor: first blood, part II

In the very same liquor store that yielded yesterday’s dimly troubling mingling of lady and liquor, I ran across a similarly vexing fusion of distilled spirits and the rest of the world: a little miracle product named sniper vodka.

Much as it was with Vodka in Red, it’s hard to know where to start with this [...]

whilst browsing the liquor store one day

Y’know, it never fails: You pop into the liquor store to stock up on provisions, you turn the corner into a back aisle — and just like that, you meet a lady in red who changes your life.

I mean, look. I feel pretty strongly about booze, in a positive way. Maybe that’s why I’m having [...]

rad rad rad

All right, people. We just returned from dinner at the truly awesome Marie’s Pizza & Lounge, and color me impressed. The food was average, but the drinks were insanely cheap and the atmosphere, my god, the atmosphere …

(You’ll note the liquor store on the left; it occupies as much space, if not more, than the [...]

please disperse, nothing to see here

Nothing too lengthy today, but OMG THIS NICE OLD LADY HAD BEEN LIVING WITH THE CORPSES OF HER BROTHER AND SISTERS FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS.
This is the kind of thing that only population density can bring you. Shit like this happens all around the country, but with 12 million people crammed into a relatively [...]

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