2012 Dec 06
I find myself having both an IM conversation and an email conversation going on with the same person at the same time. It’s bizarro. But it happens a lot it seems!
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2012 Apr 12
I’m just listening to the Dodgers playing against the Pirates and I had thought of something to blog about… but now I’ve forgotten! You know, my memory has been getting pretty poor these days. Is there some kind of pill I can take for that? 2012 Jan 11
A couple months ago, I lost my Sandisk Clip mp3 player. The last time I saw it, it was plugged into our stereo upstairs. We had some people over including a bunch of kids so I am pretty sure I put it away somewhere for safekeeping, but I haven’t been able to find it. I also lost the center post to my compact tripod. Bay had removed it so that he could adjust the tripod really low to the floor for one of his stop-motion animation projects. I found the post once, and put it back on the tripod, but a few days later Bay worked on another project and removed it again. I vaguely remember taking the post and putting it somewhere safe. Well, you know how that goes! So last night I decided to go room-by-room and search every inch for these two items. Unfortunately, my search came up empty. However, I did find a few other things that I had lost or forgot that I even owned! Firstly, I found my two “hanko” or signature stamps. My grandfather gave me one of them when I started painting back in my teens, and I picked up the other one during a visit to Hong Kong. I’ve been thinking of creating a watermark for photos using these, but didn’t know where they were. Secondly, I found a nice 72mm circular polarizing filter. I bought this around 1989 for an old zoom lens. My new 16-50mm lens uses this same filter size so that was a bit of a score. I’m happy that I found these two things, but still kind of perplexed about where the mp3 player and tripod post could be. I checked all my pockets of all my clothes for the mp3 player, and then all the places that I would think I would put the tripod post for safe-keeping but no dice. A mystery! 2011 Mar 19
 I’m not a Billy Joel fan. But I do remember this album cover. The only problem was that I never really what was up with it. I didn’t realize he was holding a rock. I didn’t know that the album was named “Glass Houses”. Up until a couple days ago, I had always just assumed he was making a silly “Saturday Night Fever” pose. Cuz dang, it sure don’t look like a natural throwing position to me. 2009 Oct 26
Hot on the heels of my last revelation, this morning I figured out that Gnip Gnop’s name is Ping Pong spelled backwards. It only took 30 years to come to that realization. Another step closer to enlightenment, I guess. 2009 Feb 08
Didn’t go outside at all today. Just cleaned the house, played a little Animal Crossing on the Wii and watched the kids play Webkinz. And I watched Stardust with the boys while Mariko is out with friends. A surpise birthday party for her actually! 2009 Feb 07
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PermalinkWent down to New Braunfels to meet my uncle and cousin to do a little fishing. We caught only one trout and three perch, but it was lots of fun. Must do it again soon! Fishing is so fun. 2008 Apr 04
Kia’s “The Power to Surprise” has got to be the worst tagline, especially for a car company. Are the cars surprisingly good? Do Kia’s surprise pedestrians or bicyclists more than other vehicles when you pull out in front of them? Are we supposed to be surprised that Kia’s haven’t gone the way of the Yugo already? I would think you’d want your car to be thought of as reliable, stable, consistent, and predictable. You want to know exactly what your car is going to do when you step on the gas, or push hard on the brakes. That’s not a time when you want to be surprised. 2008 Mar 31
The past few days, I have been so thirsty. I try to drink lots of water, but sometimes I am just too busy. Eventually I end up in front of the fridge, filling a glass with water. That is when my thirst is unbearable, and I can’t even wait for the glass to be filled. I end up quickly drinking a quarter glass-full, then continue filling up the glass again. That feeling of thirst is so awful and peculiar. Not only do I feel parched in my mouth, but my whole body feels like it is just drained. I can deal with hunger a whole lot better than thirst. Whenever I am standing at the fridge in this situation, I can’t help but think that dying from thirst would be the most terrible way to go. Thirst link at Wikipedia |