Camping

If you head over to my brother's blog (www.sybarite.us), you will read a well-written and thoughtful entry about an upcoming camping / fishing / hiking trip. I am also going on this trip. After reading brother Ron's blog, my wife became scared that I was not prepared for the trip. I suggested that I should buy some more life insurance before I go. She was upset with that idea, so I told her that I am prepared. I've got cardboard boxes and duct tape to make myself a nice camping shanty, garbage bags to carry my stuff, and I plan to go over to Jewel to steal a shopping cart to push it all through the woods. See -- I am all set.

Work

I haven't written in a few days. Work's been pretty tough with a lot going on and some personnel issues to deal with. Anyone who says that if they won the lottery that they would go back to their job is a liar. Or a moron. Either way, they have my sympathy. Or contempt. I can't quite decide.

New glasses

I was having trouble with the new pair of glasses I had gotten about two months ago. The right lens didn't focus quite right and I got sick of the larger lenses style that I have been wearing for about the past three years. So, I swapped them for a new pair of glasses with smaller lenses. My right eye feels better now.

My Bathroom

By popular demand from my fan base, here are pictures of me mounting the new bathroom light, the finished product, and the patched hole where the old light used to dangle from.

p.s. I know the shower rod is crooked, the trim is crappy, and the wall paint color looks like Mylanta. Those are next on my list of things to fix.

New bathroom light

In other exciting bathroom news, we had a light that was literally a cheap kitchen lamp dangling by a hook over our vanity. It wasn't an attractive light. Friend Graham came over this week and we installed a new octagon box in the middle of the bathroom and took down the old lamp. We then patched the hole where the old lamp once dangled. Today, I completed the work and mounted a new bathroom light. It is a far more attractive light and it makes it easier to read while on the throne, as it is also much brighter in there now.

Shaved my door

My bathroom door is a cheap hollow core jobby that was sticking at the top. The end result is that each time you would open the door it would open with a loud KER-THUNK!!!!!!!! I used a hand-plainer and shaved the top right side of the door so that it now opens and closes silently. You can now poop in peace in my house. Maybe I'll replace the entire door one day.

White bread bowling

My sister was telling me about the Lucky Strike bowling alley in downtown Chicago where they seem to be afraid of blacks, Hispanics, and Hasidic Jews:



I am a dull guy, but white bread bowling? And it runs $75 for 10 frames? Well, all I can say is "Fuck You, Khaki Pants Bowling Alley".


The Warriors can't come out to play at Lucky Strike.