My wife had wanted a Jeep ever since she was a kid (probably from watching too much Dukes of Hazzard and MacGyver). Anyway, the 20-year wait was recently over and we picked her up a 1988 Wrangler after my awesome Mazda finally bit the dust just shy of 350,000 miles. First, a Jeep Wrangler is […]
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
A friend of mine coined this term to describe the fatigue experienced by those church members that worked Vacation Bible School and which contributed to their tardiness the following Sunday morning.
Church was over and Tim came and got me and Rob. “There’s a guy outside and he says he wants to talk to a ‘church leader.’” Rob and I look at each other and go outside. The guy is tall and thick-built, middle-aged. He has a medium-sized brown and white dog. “I drove out here […]
Found on a PC I went to fix:
I found and took a screenshot of this when I was searching for images of bamboo.
It was Heath Ledger’s last film (he died during filming), and it was directed by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python’s Flying Circus, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Brothers Grimm). It also stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Christopher Plummer. I realized going in that Terry Gilliam films are guaranteed to be weird, that […]
Cloves are one of the greatest things ever. If you don’t know what they are, they are those little spiky things you see sticking out of Christmas hams. I first got hooked on cloves back when I used to smoke. I know, I know, I was supposed to get addicted to tobacco and not the […]
Last year one of my students graduated from high school. Travis is a very mild mannered guy who always keeps his nose clean, and also a huge Superman fan. He was one of my very first students, and we hang out once in a while. However, the fact is, graduations are always boring. So I […]
“I like cats. And I don’t like people who don’t.” –Roger Moore as Rufus Excalibur ffolkes in ffolkes.
Before my wife met me she had gone on a date with some dude, no doubt neither as smart or handsome as me, and they went to see Mike Myers’s So I Married an Axe Murderer. She said it was so boring that she fell asleep. Years later when I started my current job, Jimmy […]