Thanks and New Glasses

Thanks everybody for the birthday wishes. I had a pretty good day. I was treated to lunch by a friend at work and treated to dinner with my family. Also, my wife somehow managed to take care of our rambunctious two year old and still bake a cake, clean the house, wrap my [...]

An Interesting Day

It was an interesting day thirty-one years ago. In many ways, not too different from today. George Lucas had a #1 movie out then (Star Wars) as he does now (Indiana Jones). People were nervous about gas then and they sure are now. Mainstream music sucked then, and mainstream music sucks [...]

Success!

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Well, whatever you all did yesterday, do again Saturday because the Penguins won last night 3-2! It was an absolutely amazing, hard-hitting, exciting hockey game, and my stomach still hasn’t calmed down a bit. It was intense. If you care about the details, Empty Netters is a fun, [...]

Luck Needed

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I need some luck. Well, I don’t really need luck. Rather, the Pittsburgh Penguins need some luck. They are down two games to none to the Detroit Red Wings and have yet to score a goal. The teams play tonight in Pittsburgh. If the Penguins lose tonight the math will [...]

My Waterstones Entry

Well, I wound up entering that writing contest at Waterstones I mentioned here last week. I’m pretty pleased with my entry, though I submitted it with a typo. My wife spotted it after it was already submitted. Oh well.
Their site is done in Flash, so there is no way to link to [...]

More Photoey Beardie Goodness

Here’s another picture of me with the beard. As you can see it’s getting quite scraggly. My wife took this one after we woke up, hence messy hair.

I watched game one of the Stanley Cup finals on the internet last night, as it was on a channel we don’t get (Versus). [...]

New Weezer Video -Pork and Beans

Have you seen the new Weezer video yet? It’s brilliant! I’m not going to even try to describe it. Just take a look:

My Day of Celebrity

I felt like a celebrity yesterday. First of all, I was reading my favorite weekly hockey column by John Buccigross on ESPN.com and saw my name! I had completely forgotten I had entered a caption for his “Shot of the Week” feature and he had picked mine as one of the best. [...]

Making a Character Likeable

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I had my writing group on Monday and it went well as always. Everyone seemed to enjoy my Chapter 4. I even got a “this is the most exciting chapter so far”, which was nice. It was the most fun chapter to write.
There were a few suggestions, one of which I [...]

Glasses and Music and Waterstones

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Had a busy day yesterday. The borough took care of the plumbing problem, so no cost to me there. Yay!
I got new contact lenses and glasses yesterday, something that was MUCH needed. The glasses I chose are super cool, thanks to help from my lovely wife. I’ll share some pictures when [...]