Some of my happiest memories are from Thanksgivings past. Family gathered together preparing and then eating a ton of food. Stories told over the dinner table about this cousin or that uncle. Playing various card or board games way into the night. This Thanksgiving will be bittersweet for me though; as some of you know …
Category: stuff
Nov 14
Buying a stove shouldn’t be this hard, pt. 1
The oven went out in our Frigidaire gas range (this was after the clock went out a couple years ago–it’s been the worst appliance I’ve ever owned), so we finally broke down and went shopping for a new range. We were looking for a prosumer gas convection range, as Heather does a lot of baking. …
Nov 11
“I hope you have a horrible vacation.”
That was the last thing I heard when I left work last Wednesday. I take my vacation in late October every year so I can enjoy Missouri’s beautiful autumns. Or at least, with the intent to do so. So far every year I planned to go hiking, floating, or caving. So far every year I …
Nov 03
Update
I’m in the hospital, and have been for the last two days. I hope to get out today. I will update more when I can say something funny without being acrimonious.
Nov 01
Perfection
I recently worked on a computer for someone. While I was there, the guy was at another desk eating his lunch. It sounded like this: munch munch Munch Munch MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH with his mouth open smick smack smick smack munch munch MUNCH MUNCH While I continued to type away clickity typity clickity typity …
Oct 21
Survey results: super power
A couple weeks ago I posted a survey asking readers what they thought my super power was; here are the results: reading minds human lie detector Encyclopedia Man – able to recall facts on anything whether relevant or not. super creativity The third one seems most accurate to me, plus the submitter helpfully included a …
Oct 14
Welcome aboard!
Yay! Heather is ditching her blog and joining MadMania. I’ve already imported all the posts from her old site, and I’ll get to work soon on setting posts to display the author so as to minimize confusion.
Oct 09
Pickle-faced
verb, adjective; to face a chair toward a wall and/or turn its back to a person. Example: “She’s pickle-faced her chair and won’t come out.” The word, its usage, and the example I just used came to me in a dream last night. After some research I have found out that it is actually a …
