SuburbanAdventure

I spent most of the morning today mocking a blacksmith in work who had made his own forged belt buckle.  References to the LLBean Christmas 08 anvil catalog, the My First Anvil playset and the web 2.0 compliant e-Anvil and its corresponding Facebook group flew furiously.
Later that day, my belt buckle broke and I replaced [...]

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Day 1
Coworker: You have a stain on your shirt.
Me: Yeah, baja chalupa, always gets me.
Day 2
Coworker: Did you change your shirt?  There’s a stain on it again.
Me: Yeah, baja chalupa strikes again.
Day 3
Coworker: No stains.  Did you find a way to navigate the baja chalupa?
Me: It was cold today, the stain’s on my jacket.

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Somehow, after setting up for a night in Palmer Lodge, I trapped a bee in my sleeping bag.  I left the main room after Nick Gramiccioni began snoring like a 10cc buzzsaw and moved to another room.  While walking in, I felt a stinging on the bottom of my bare foot and assumed I stepped [...]

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Me:  Well, that explains why I couldn’t find my belt.  I was already wearing it.

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Normally I’m weary of people who combine two dissimilar foods with the intent that they’ll get better and today my theory was confirmed.  A unit leader enjoyed his stay and sent us a bag of plain/cheddar/caramel popcorn and I’d been picking out the cheddar ones to eat through out the day.  An office mate recommended [...]

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While sitting at dinner today someone mentioned that they had orange drink and rice pudding together so I immediately had a bowl of orange drink mixed with rice pudding and began downing it.  At first it felt simply like I was eating a melted creamsicle that had been attacked by a Korean padi farmer and [...]

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Meetings at work have slowly become more common and the arts of foraging (taking food after a meeting) and poaching (the daring taking of food before a meeting) has returned.  Today, a meeting ended and there were about 30 cans of various colas left so I grabbed 12 or so (two in each front pocket, [...]

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It has literally be five months since anyone has gone food shopping.  We’d consumed just about everything to the point where I was marinading 4 month old venison  in Italian dressing and Arby’s Horsey Sauce to serve with broccoli florets emancipated from a solid block of ice.  Today that ended.  And it was good.  [...]

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I went out for ribs with my mother and was a bit overdressed for the “Duck Deli” as I had come straight from work.  The ribs were a bit fatty and I knew Max (our dog) would love it so I asked for a doggie bag.  The server looked at me quizzically so I repeated [...]

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There were a lot of streaks on the floor today from someone’s shoes, I asked and the co-worker I recently can’t stand cut in with the following:
Him: They’re probably yours.  You’re so fat you can’t help but leave shoe marks.  It’s ok, Terry.
The oddity was, that immediately before he said this, another coworker admitted that [...]

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