Prosaic Paradise

When I got sick a few weeks back, one of the things I was told was to stop with the caffeine. I am not a huge caffeine drinker; one diet coke a day, maybe two. I’ve always been a little sensitive to it, such that more than one cup of coffee sends me & my […]

This weekend I found myself in social situations slightly outside my comfort zone three nights in a row. Friday our good friend Paul was having his birthday party which we were pleased to attend. Saturday our long lost friend Josh was having his birthday outing to the Pirates Tavern. Sunday our friend Brooke was celebrating […]

I got up, popped my comfy slippers on, went downstairs and ate breakfast, read this fad diet book I might use as a guide, and watched CSI: Miami all at the same time. This is all various delaying tactics to stop me from having to go into the spare bedroom. Motivation is a funny thing. […]

I was browsing the Diablo III blogs, like you do, and I saw the headline “Torchlight: A Diablo Clone?” and I thought, now here we go again – another Sacred. (That game kind of blew. I mean it was fun, but buggy as hell.) For the record, I don’t think I have ever loved a […]

I’m so lucky. Blessed. Whatever word you want to use for it. I like the word blessed, because it takes out the chance part, but then it puts in the god part and I don’t much buy into that. I’ll try to think of something better. Anyways. Even though lately I don’t really show it, […]

Remember the optimistic, joyous, burden-removing start I had when I said I was going to get rid of one thing every Thursday? I called it Purge Thursday, and a couple of folks even took it on, and started documenting what they were getting rid of every Thursday? We were all going to live more simply […]

I don’t care if it’s November. Here’s a few photos of our costumes this year – the Clue characters. Minus Mr. Green, since we didn’t have someone to play him. Thanks Jen, Pam, Lars, and Jack for participating so enthusiastically… wait Lars! Not that enthusiastically! (Last year we were the Scooby Gang… apparently I came […]

Here is the recipe for turning around a bad day: 1: Have a really good guitar lesson. We spent the entire lesson on Josh Homme’s solo at the end of Little Sister, and I learned that I need to get way more aggressive about bending the strings. While I play it at a snail’s pace […]

I got out of bed on the same side I do every morning, like most folks. By the time I got to work, I had decided it was the wrong side. According to a thoroughly non-rigourous search of the internet, this phrase has its origin in getting up on the left side of the bed, […]

This is an entry for Genie’s Living Out Loud project. You may remember Genie from me posting about her giving birth earlier this month. She is the happy mama of a baby boy now and I can’t wait to meet him. Given that I’m currently reading a book about how your own self-justification can screw […]