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| 2010-02-08 01:17 |
| Randomnity |
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| advertising, family, football, google image, indianapolis, mail, models, mom, money, music, new orleans, random, rock, sister, sports, stupidity, tax, tv, weather |
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*) On the Super Bowl--for the first time ever I saw Peyton Manning's dark side. At a few times when he was on the sidelines watching his team try to hold the Saints, the looks on his face reminded me of Tony Perkins in Psycho and Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. For all his "nice guy" image it wouldn't surprise me if somebody cast him as a villain in a horror movie after his football career is over.
Meanwhile, nobody can say the Saints didn't earn their victory. Yes, they DID have "something to prove"...and now we'll have to get used to them being called "defending NFL champions".
I didn't watch the Who's halftime show or more than a few commercials. I get my sister's point about the Denny's commercial with the screaming chickens. I can't remember the last time I ate at a Denny's anyway.
*) I'm starting a Google account. I used to have one, but then I shuffled it to Mum for reasons that aren't worth explaining.
*) The weather is typical February lousy. Tonight is cold...not enough to freeze the water pipes, but enough to make us miserable. I've been hitting the coffee and cocoa very hard but wish I didn't have to.
*) I'm waiting for three things in the coming mail: a package of scale model parts to review; a check from the State of Tennessee to pay me for three days of jury duty; a response from the IRS to my return. Which one would you think I'd get first?
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| 2010-02-07 13:06 |
| Writer's Block: Superbowl Madness Or Sadness? |
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| asheville, brother, family, football, indianapolis, new orleans, sister, sports, super star, tennessee, writer's block |
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Don't know if I'll watch all of it...but probably a good part of it. I'm not rooting for either side this year. Many of the people here are rooting for the Colts because of Peyton Manning (the former star of the Vols); my brother-in-law is from New Orleans so the Asheville gang is supporting the Saints. Me? I just hope it goes the distance and delivers some spectacular plays on the field.
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The harmony that keeps our family together and in love with one another.
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Since Friday was Christmas, it felt like a Sunday, and since I was in close proxmity of my sister, I caught her malady of Monday for the following week, which I suffered Saturday morning. Only I'm looking at Monday now. But will it be a Monday-strength Monday, or just a Holiday-depleted Monday? I guess we'll find out soon enough.
If there's any good to come of this, it might mean that my sister won't suffer from Monday today in New Orleans, where she is vacationing.
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| 2009-12-13 16:50 |
| Bread |
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Hey.
A couple notes since I last talked about bread here:
1) Sister bought us a new toaster to replace an old one. It can handle Texas Toast. Now all I have to do is nudge the folks into buying the bread more often.
2) We're baking a batch of Monkey Bread, so I thought to look up an old USENET post on the subject and repost it here.
(...) Buddy, it is. In fact, your mention of it is making me a little Jonesy for it right now. Gonna search the archives of Ye Olde 75Mhz Pentium I computer...
Well, I got the Chef of the Monkey Bread right here, so I'm going to reconstruct the recipie here and now. Here goes: ( Monkey Bread )
FP
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Not my job. My sister is the designated turkey wrangler in the clan.
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| 2009-10-04 14:25 |
| Vended In Honor Of My Sister And Lipin III |
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| The Go-Go's -- Cool Jerk |
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( Who Didn't Get To Dance Last Night--But Should Have )
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Middle kid. Perpetually in the shadow of my extroverted and super-cool older sister, and always having to "behave" to be a positive influence on my younger brother.
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| 2009-08-13 15:57 |
| Writer's Block: On the Road |
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| asheville, driving, florida, friends, music, road trip, sister, the 1970s, the 1980s, travel, vw, weirdness, writer's block |
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Strangely enough, The Doors. It all goes back to a trip I took in the Spring of 1984 with my classmate Chuck Oppermann, from Florida to Asheville to visit my sister Lynn at college. His car was a VW 411 fastback and it was equipped with a jury-rigged 8-track cassette player. Our selection was limited to Derek and the Dominoes, Jimi Hendrix, Chicago and The Doors...and oddly enough The Doors tapes worked the best.
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| 2009-07-17 00:02 |
| Les Yeux Sans Visage... |
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On the PBS show Soundstage one of my music superheroes was on tonight--Billy Idol. The concert set included a few new songs but was centered around his signature hits from the Eighties: "White Wedding", "Rebel Yell", "Flesh For Fantasy", "Dancing With Myself"...
...and "Eyes Without A Face".
That song was a hit when I was a Junior in High School. My yearbook from that time has no signatures or well-wishes from my classmates...only a doodle of a pair of eyes, without a face, on the front endpapers.
That season, in English class, our assignment was to read the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby, and the novel and the song fit each other. Gatsby's visible life of excess and its hidden emptiness. His scheming towards trying to win back Daisy, and her betrayal of both Gatsby and her unfaithful husband. The violence that leads to Gatsby's final reckoning. And throughout, the loneliness that comes even in a crowd and won't let go. Those who have read the book also know about the eyes without a face.
I don't know if my sister still has my copy of Great Gatsby. She swiped mine after I left High School and I haven't seen it since.
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My sister sold her currently moribund VW for $1 to a student mechanic who hopes to fix it up as a gift to his own sister. No, I am not the student mechanic. I'm just writing this as I know there are interested parties out there following this story.
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*) Just got paid $20 in the course of helping my father bring a neighboring elder lady's TV arrangement closer to 21st Century standards. We're not quite there yet but still have two months to go. $20 used to be the too-much kind of money, but these days it's the nowhere-near-enough kind.
*) My sister bought a Nissan Versa to replace the Beetle.
*) Realized on a shopping trip that going to a Christian bookstore was like driving through a neighborhood where an ex lives. By extension, visiting Dollywood is like going to an ex's family reunion.
*) My "NPR Name" is Streve Grimsby. Make a pledge of support today.
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My sister's VW TDI New Beetle, a.k.a. "Bianca", died this past week from a terminal case of Turbonoma. Since she is determined to find another such animal, I did a quick search of AutoTrader.com and sent the results to her just now.
Unlike two years plus ago, TDI Beetles are more common and more reasonably priced.
The last search brought me to Chattanooga. I wonder where it will take me this time.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of March 19, 2009
"Though the seas threaten, they are merciful," says Ferdinand, a character in Shakespeare's play The Tempest. "I have cursed them without cause." Please consider the possibility that you could honestly make a similar declaration about some influence in your world. What's wild but mostly beneficent? What's primal in a way that draws you back to your deepest sources and reminds you what's really important?
My elder sister.
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My Sister Lyn: "Did anybody get a count on how many Mondays in a row that was before we reached Tuesday?"
Me: "I think that particular Monday was the Tuesday-eating kind. It had become anti-Mondayotic resistant and we had to amputate Wednesday, Thursday and most of Friday to treat it."
Mom: "There is a weird strain of, well, weird in this family and I blame it on Ambrose, 'cause he can't defend himself at this late date!"
Lyn: "All Bierces are weird Mum, it goes all the way to Austin Bierce. And you took the name, so you're weird too. And my kids are absolutely half-weird (being Bierce-Wilsons), which in a way makes them adorably weirder than if they were 100% weird. I wonder if Jon is less weird now that he has had a Bierce-ectomy from his name? Hmm."
Mom: "RIGHT! It's all Austin's fault, even though he was probably politically correct in a politically incorrect family."
Lyn: "Face it Mum, he was a weirdo who couldn't even spell his own name."
FOOTNOTE: Austin Bierce was one of the descendants of Augustine Bearse, who came to Massachusetts in the middle Seventeenth Century as an indentured man (deported from England, allegedly for being a Gypsy) took a native wife and eventually became a freeman landowner farmer. Austin changed the spelling of the surname for unknown reasons, before or during the American Revolution. Logic says that all American Bierces are his issue; we haven't connected all our geneological dots to him on this side of the family line yet.
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Finally got to mix up and drink the packet my sister gave me for Christmas.
It's the Pan-Galactic Cocoa Blaster...like having your brains beaten out by a warm fudge brownie wrapped around a large gold brick.
Whoa.
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| 2008-12-25 16:08 |
| Jingled...All The Way |
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| asheville, books, brother, chocolate, clothes, coffee, family, family reunions, holidays, sister, travel |
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Back from a trip to Sister's in Asheville for a reunion/gift swap. The swag talley:
* Three shirts: one from Mom & Dad; two from a family friend.
* A Calvin & Hobbes book.
* A huge double-capacity coffee cup, a packet of instant cocoa and two packs of cookies, from Sister.
* The Art of War/The Prince/Frederick The Great's Instructions To His Generals (one book) from my new Brother-In-Law.
The Calvin & Hobbes book was the final result of a "Dirty Santa" game. The first gift I had chosen was...well...bizarrely synchronistic. A novelty pair of sunglasses, that resembled both the Batman cowl-top and Enemy Ace's goggles. However, my very stylish niece decided that she wanted them and swiped them on her turn, so I swiped the book. So those of you who wanted me to cosplay an aviator, you almost had a piece of your wish delivered today. It may still happen--just another way.
FP
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| 2008-12-14 01:15 |
| Good, Bad And Ugly |
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| birthday, computer, family, friends, glitches, holidays, shopping, sister, stuff i want, troubleshooting |
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Hey.
Good!--Sis gave me a birthday prezzie today...a $42 Gift "Card" for Amazon.com! Going to need to root through the site and figure out what I want. I'm willing to take suggestions/recommendations.
Bad!--When I was writing Sis a thank-you e-mail, I found that the clipboard had been corrupted and was spewing the infamous "http://windows-scannercenter.com/?id=93087288166". I updated my IE, updated my virus scan software, and ran a virus scan...which didn't find anything. But updating IE helped. I also tried to update Flash Player (on the advice of one of the sites I saw about the suspect web addy) but I seemed to have the latest one that my computer could accept.
Ugly--Me. I need a shave and some serious grooming help. I attended Paul Francis' Xmas party this afternoon/this evening, broken by the tech support activity above. I saw The Dark Knight (on Paul's DVD player/big screen TV), which was good but not (IMO) up to all the hype I had heard about it. I'm very self-conscious at parties...something that has always weighed me down. Granted, I was also the newbie at the party and didn't know what to expect.
FP
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Depends on the game, of course. Most of the time, tho', I prefer the act of discovery. There was one time I was at my sister's, playing my nephew's Sonic The Hedgehog game for the very first time, and I found a prize in it my nephew had never seen before after scores of previous playing sessions. That impressed both of us.
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