SuburbanAdventure

I’ve been screwing around with my treadmill and discovered you could set the incline to change automatically at specific times and to test I set the machine to go from a 4 to a 10 degree incline at 5 minutes.  This is what it sounded like:
*THUMP* *THUMP* *THUMP* *THUMP* *WHACK* “FUCK!”
Never place an adjustable incline [...]

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Pre-release Moments
-A Philadelphia judge looking for a player announced “I need to see Joe Wang at the the judges station”.
-A player asked me what to do if both players roll the same number when seeing who plays first.
-I was caught stealing a horrible joke from a 3 month-old Reader’s Digest by a thug-dressed player.
-Calling the Reading [...]

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To cut living expenses, I’ve starting bringing lunch to work and today’s was day-old Kung-Pow chicken.  While microwaving, the director of finance came in and did a double-take seeing a metal container in the microwave and asked how I wasn’t breaking anything.  I told him that metal is only a problem if it’s a certain [...]

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Three weeks ago I went to the barbershop and he yelled at me for not coming in for 3 months telling me that I should come back in 6 weeks.  After letting it grow in and having the hair on the side of my head growing out in such a way It looked like I [...]

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So I’ve started wearing suspenders to work and they worked perfectly up till today when they got caught on something when I was trying to put them back on in the bathroom resulting in me pulling one of the straps off and hitting myself in the face with it resulting in me hitting my head [...]

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A teacher did for the first time something I thought as novel: negotiated the syllabus.  We had a chance to recommend changes to grading, testing, review and digital policies the following happened after a few rounds of negotiation:
Beginning:  2 in class tests both worth 25%, and a cumulative final worth 50%
Ending: 4 tests (1 per [...]

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After playing a DVD back-up I made that skipped quite a bit, I’ve begun sifting through my back-ups to see which work and which don’t.  Part way through, my free space was going down and discovered my drive hit 16% fragmented.  This is the highest I’ve ever had a drive and like a moth to [...]

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I’m certain the camp printer has developed Munchausen syndrome.  It doesn’t receive much use in the off season and while copying banquet registration forms, as soon as I left, the toner cartridge was empty.  The next two times I left the room a spontaneous paper jam occured that on further investigation had no jammed paper [...]

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Kevin and I set up the projector in Palmer and started playing Arkanoid on the wall when we were raided by an infinite (>6) number of Cub Scouts that upon seeing a giant video game on the wall split into equal sized groups, one dedicated to yelling “can I play?” the other running in front [...]

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Kevin, Zack and I were brainstorming ways to improve camp morale and came to a simple conclusion: the only way to improve morale is the have Butch Patrick who played Eddie Munster show up week 5 and perform “What Happened to Eddie?” with Eddie and the Monsters.

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