I’m trying to get one of my coworkers to engage in The Vending Machine Challenge, but we need to round up enough cash for it to be worth his while.
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I’m trying to get one of my coworkers to engage in The Vending Machine Challenge, but we need to round up enough cash for it to be worth his while.
Apparently, while I was downstairs writing, David Cronenberg was setting up a shot in my kitchen:
We did tell Mugwump to be here around 7, but I hope he knows he has to go outside if he wants to smoke:
It’s the 6th anniversary of the big-ass northeast blackout, and some website is calling for reminiscences from the event. I wrote a long-ass post about it, which is still a pretty entertaining (to me).
What I’m reading: I was bored by Edwin Mullhouse, so I put it down after 25 pages. In honor of the finale of The Deadliest Catch, I started re-reading Moby Dick. I also re-read Ghost World, which was a really wonderful comic.
What I’m listening to: Nothing in particular; just some shuffling iTunes.
What I’m watching: That Deadliest Catch finale, Be Kind Rewind (haters need to explain to me why they were so down on this movie), and Step Brothers.
What I’m drinking: Abita amber
What Rufus is up to: No grey-hike, on account of rain, but he got to meet lots of people and doggies at the Saturday farmer’s market in town.
Where I’m going: Nowhere in particular.
What I’m happy about: That Patsy turned out to be champion of the Ghurkas. And offered to put up Nepal’s Olympic team in her house for the 2012 games.
What I’m sad about: Talk Magazine launched 10 years ago? Boy, I’m getting old. And boy, that Gwyneth Paltrow S/M photospread remains one of the least sexy things I’ve ever seen:
What I’m worried about: Someday I’ll lose my mind and find that sexy. <shudder>
What I’m pondering: Whether I should forward this career advice article about drinking with co-workers to our office drunk, or just forward it to every other employee in our company.
Follow me on Twitter. I’m twitter.com/groth18. Given my prolixity, I don’t think I can do much in a 140-character limit, but hey.
Gidget, the Taco Bell chihuahua, is dead.
Happy St. Swithin’s Day! And happy birthday to my uncle Harold!
The picture below has nothing to do with St. Swithin, Harold, or 40 days of rain. It’s just a nice pic I took this morning while Ru & I walked around Skyline Lake: