4.2.2k9
I told several of you that I'd let you know how my sentinel chickens worked out. It was great, for a while. The little gals would let me know when the UPS guy was coming and whether he carried a package that needed a signature, so I could scoot home in time to meet him. They alerted me that the sprinklers were fixin' to come on and I dashed out to snag my solar hotdog cooker so it didn't get soaked and rust. They also got pretty good about knowing when Ez was going to burp just air opposed to spitting up his chow. They were great. I highly recommend you try them.
Problem, and I have to admit it, is that we live next door to gypsies. How could living next door to gypsies be a problem, you ask? Up till recently, I'd have been unable to tell you one good reason why it would be a problem living next door to gypsies, but now I can give you one. They "ate" several of my sentinel chickens. I wheeled up to the apartment and smelled delicious cooking meat - as one usually does when one lives next door to gypsies - but I became alarmed when only part of my flock flocked to me. "055," ""147" and "Beth" didn't come. I thought they were angry with me for chastising them when they didn't alert me that the parking jerks were coming to tow the boat of filth (so I could watch and cheer), but that wasn't it. No, they were on their way to lining the stomachs of our gypsy neighbors.
So I had to turn them back in. I told the service a marmot got in their cage and smoked a couple of them. All in all, though, they were great. Ez and I loved them. My little wife? Not so much. She only liked "Beth."
Tonight - Club Deluxe.
bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Eatin' Dust.
4.1.2k9
If yr in the market for a car and you didn't buy before yesterday yr gonna get hit with the new registratio fee. Hop to it no more: Yr gonna pay even more for yr new ride. Man, I love fees. My favorite is the "convenience fee" that goddamn ticketmaster puts on its transactio s. It certainly IS convenient to snag tix on the intertubes from the comfort of my own home, but it ain't worth near the cost of the tix themselves.
I learned a while back to MAKE IT CONVENIENT to swing past the box office and procure tix ... do this by scheduling a trip to the Amoeba record store! There's a constant gravitatio-al pull from that store anyway ... why not submit to it every time there's an act at HOB or da Music Box you wanna see?
In other money news, the vendy that was randomly eating an extra quarter from me began flashing and blinking its internal lightbulb. I peered in to watch it explode (protective glass between it and me) only to be disappointed, as it didn't blow. I shrugged and chucked in two quarters and punched Q for a 45¢ sac of Chili-Chee Fritos®. My nickel clunked into the coin return and I stopped. It clunked. It usually clinks. I dug in and hauled out a handful of quarters, dimes and my nickel. Woo hoo. Old Man Vendy paid ME 6 bucks in quarters to snack a sac of Chili-Chee®. Day started right.
Tonight - Bacchus Kirk.
bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!
If yr in the market for a car and you didn't buy before yesterday yr gonna get hit with the new registratio fee. Hop to it no more: Yr gonna pay even more for yr new ride. Man, I love fees. My favorite is the "convenience fee" that goddamn ticketmaster puts on its transactio s. It certainly IS convenient to snag tix on the intertubes from the comfort of my own home, but it ain't worth near the cost of the tix themselves.
I learned a while back to MAKE IT CONVENIENT to swing past the box office and procure tix ... do this by scheduling a trip to the Amoeba record store! There's a constant gravitatio-al pull from that store anyway ... why not submit to it every time there's an act at HOB or da Music Box you wanna see?
In other money news, the vendy that was randomly eating an extra quarter from me began flashing and blinking its internal lightbulb. I peered in to watch it explode (protective glass between it and me) only to be disappointed, as it didn't blow. I shrugged and chucked in two quarters and punched Q for a 45¢ sac of Chili-Chee Fritos®. My nickel clunked into the coin return and I stopped. It clunked. It usually clinks. I dug in and hauled out a handful of quarters, dimes and my nickel. Woo hoo. Old Man Vendy paid ME 6 bucks in quarters to snack a sac of Chili-Chee®. Day started right.
Tonight - Bacchus Kirk.
bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Jesus!
3.4.2k9
Wasn't too long ago I vowed to stop throwin' out food. I'd try harder to cook what I bought, then eat what I cooked. It ain't workin' out exactly as I had planned. Really good lookin' tomatoes find their way home with me from the store and a while later find their moldy butts in my trashcan. Same with luncheon meats, breads, cheeses and all variety of fruit and veg. Sucks. I hate the hell outta wasting foods. Funny how that bag o' chips and icy Coors Lights will get voted into Dinner Office when a perfectly good Deluxe Salad candidate get's Al Gored.
Tonight: Homestead.
Try to: Find the Reference!
Bring yr pals. Treat them to the TNSC HQ's hospitality. I know I will.
See you there!
bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!
3.4.2k9
Wasn't too long ago I vowed to stop throwin' out food. I'd try harder to cook what I bought, then eat what I cooked. It ain't workin' out exactly as I had planned. Really good lookin' tomatoes find their way home with me from the store and a while later find their moldy butts in my trashcan. Same with luncheon meats, breads, cheeses and all variety of fruit and veg. Sucks. I hate the hell outta wasting foods. Funny how that bag o' chips and icy Coors Lights will get voted into Dinner Office when a perfectly good Deluxe Salad candidate get's Al Gored.
Tonight: Homestead.
Try to: Find the Reference!
Bring yr pals. Treat them to the TNSC HQ's hospitality. I know I will.
See you there!
bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Ventana
3.3.2k9
One or two of you might have heard that the Chicago Cubs are considering alternate sites for their future Spring Training home. Alternate to Mesa, Arizona's Hohokam Park, run by the Mesa Hohokam tribe of, uh, Hohokams.
I go to Spring Training every year (just went: It was great! Thanks!) and I for one (?) really dig the old-timey feel of Hohokam. I also like parking in the lot owned by the white-haired lady w/ the moustache. I like the freakin-49er prospector-looking old dude hawking tickets by the canal (I think he pans the canal for ’em). I also REALLY like making fun of Mesa – what a dump! I kid Mesa. Not really. Dump.
Anyway … I would be very unhappy. And not in the way our Cubs usually make me unhappy.
Tonight - Hemlock Tavern.
Jeremy? Hemlock? hint hint
bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!
One or two of you might have heard that the Chicago Cubs are considering alternate sites for their future Spring Training home. Alternate to Mesa, Arizona's Hohokam Park, run by the Mesa Hohokam tribe of, uh, Hohokams.
I go to Spring Training every year (just went: It was great! Thanks!) and I for one (?) really dig the old-timey feel of Hohokam. I also like parking in the lot owned by the white-haired lady w/ the moustache. I like the freakin-49er prospector-looking old dude hawking tickets by the canal (I think he pans the canal for ’em). I also REALLY like making fun of Mesa – what a dump! I kid Mesa. Not really. Dump.
Anyway … I would be very unhappy. And not in the way our Cubs usually make me unhappy.
Tonight - Hemlock Tavern.
Jeremy? Hemlock? hint hint
bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!
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