SuburbanAdventure

My toothache has hit day 7 and I decided to consult higher powers (ie a dentist) and knew I made the right decision when my call was answered by a stereotypical Jewish grandmother.
Me: Hi, I’d like to set up an appointment for a dental exam.
Linda Richman: What’s wrong, dawling?
Me: I’ve had a toothache of a [...]

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After my failed attempt to insulate around my backdoor, I thought that I might be able to fill in the hollow door to have it better insulate.  I went to Lowes to ask if they had a door filler of some sort that I could use.
Associate: None that I can think of.
Me: What about Great [...]

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I typically watch an episode of Star Trek while using the treadmill and most of my family has gotten used to the 42 minute block of thunder from upstairs.  Today, after about 55 minutes, my dad checked on me to make sure I was okay, he looked relieved that I wasn’t being sanded by the [...]

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I set up WPA encryption on my WLAN today and for a brief moment relived the days of 8-bit Nintendo passwords.  I copied down the randomly generated code from a page and copied and pasted it into the router setup menu.  I then went to the device and tried to copy it back and quickly [...]

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Jeremiah Lodise and his band of friends got stoned yesterday and I was immediately transported back to 10th grade.  The exception here was while my friends talked about screaming monkey brains and talked to the ground, Jeremiah told me he’d seen my brain fade to infinity, then taking my Sharpie drew a 3-4-5 triangle on [...]

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I haven’t gotten as much sleep as I’ve wanted.  This hasn’t interfered with much but I fear my work performance may be dropping.  Today when documenting failure modes of plastics under stress I wrote “banerked” instead of “break”.  I hope my boss doesn’t notice, if he does I’ll tell him I must have banerked the [...]

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Discussing Walt Whitman.
FIMC: I like how he recognizes the beauty of everyone.
Teacher: Yes, he did like the beauty of man.
FIMC: It was nice for a guy to express feelings of his respect for fellow men.
Teacher: He certainly did that, in more ways than one.
FIMC: It was nice for a male poet to be so expressive.
Teacher: [...]

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I work 12 hour shifts at BMS, M/W/F and at 8:00AM and 5:00PM I want a cold drink, so I brought in an ice tray into work.  At first it was my little secret, then slowly my ice started disappearing.  This wouldn’t annoy me accept that even when emptied it was never refilled.  I consider [...]

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Soon to be married coworker designed a wax seal to use on the wedding invitations.  The seal was made using a highly complicated construction process out of the goodness of the person who generates prototypes.  Constant talk of dimensions, materials, design formats and production time had me geared up to see a seal worthy of [...]

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I have a toothache, arguably the most debilitating ailment I’ve ever had.  Even through mono and TB, I got more work done than I did with a toothache.   So, I had a list of stuff to do today and my dad comes home and asked my why I didn’t get anything done, to which I [...]

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