SuburbanAdventure

I donated to Wikipedia.org today.  This was my first venture into microphilanthropy and it was far more absolving than any penance the Catholic Church ever issued upon me.  Every act of arrogance and wrongness I performed was unimportant.  I cut someone off, but it didn’t matter, I donated to wikipedia.  I cursed in front of [...]

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Today I learned the harsh sting of humility in the face of jerky-making hubris.  I was talking to another staff member whose father hunts deer and mentioned that he wished he could preserve venison.  I mentioned that I thought myself skilled at creating beef jerky, to which he asked if I’d done deer jerky before [...]

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I’ve found that the only time I was able to sustain reasonable levels of exercise was the brief period of time between discovering and fixing a broken treadmill and it dying in glorious battle against me (sadly, I won so we both lost) and went ot Sears to see what they in terms of treadmills. [...]

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If you’ve driven in a car with me over the past year I’ve taken to driving with a glass of water or diet soda in my non-wheel hand and tonight, as I was driving Nick to the Lodge Executive Board meeting we came upon a police vehicle that looked like it was periodically stopping people. [...]

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For Christmas, I received a mandoline.  Today, I went on a bit of a slicing spree.  I now have about 5 pounds of lemon slices about 3 millimeters in thickness.  If anyone’s having a party and plans on serving 100-200 gin martinis, tell me.

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My brother decided to test out the NordicTrac I found on Craigslist and gave him this Christmas. I warned him that the motion require was initially awkward and I left to avoid the cries of pain and angst that would flow from my room. 10 minutes, I returned to my brother yelling “I [...]

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I WON CHRISTMAS!  How?  Every year my brother and I have a gift giving duel over my father, he being or provider we kinda go nuts.  I planned this time, staked out deals during Black Friday, took out extra money as a “student loan” and today I struck.  We began with small arms, wallet, he [...]

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While waiting in the customer pick up area of CircuitCity I walked into a discussion between a women and a stock agent.  She wanted the original box and the man went into the stockroom and returned saying the original box wasn’t available.  She asked for the original packaging, the stock agent once again entered the [...]

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I was having a bad day, until I saw the world’s greatest Christmas display .  A giant plywood birthday card that said “Happy Birthday Jesus” on it.

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While attempting to find a hockey jersey with my brother I noticed this:

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