Carrie was kinda worn out yesterday because this vacation of hers has ended up being busier than when she's working full time. But for some reason her mom kept calling wanting her to do stuff even though Carrie told her that she wasn't feeling up to anything. It was very funny. Eventually we both did go have dinner with them at Katie Downs (yummy chicken pizza w/white sauce & artichoke hearts).
Fools Play was fun (longform w/workin' it in) but it was WAY too ambitious of a night. It ran ten minutes long and we weren't quite as prepared as we had hoped we'd be, so the second half of the show were were kinda low energy.
But during the warm-up before the show we collectively wrote the funniest and worst movie ever. I'm serious, I'm gonna write this one down so as not to forget it.
This is Chris dot com
Sunday, August 31, 2003
Funniest and worst
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Saturday, August 30, 2003
What a day, what a day
Carrie & I had decided to take a daytrip up a part of Puget Sound that we basically never go—the Westside, aka The Kitsap Peninsula, all the way up to loverly Port Townsend with a stop at Poulsbo.
We started out early enough (before 10:00 a.m.) and crossed the Tacoma Narrows bridge without incident. In fact we were completely withouth incident all the way through Gig Harbor and up until we got near Bremerton. Then this happened:
The red line (#3) is where we were supposed to go. The blue/green line is where we actually went. So we drove by three giant Air Craft Carriers and into Bremerton. Yeah, Bremerton is like a gigantic hub of the United States Navy for some reason. Probably on account of it's pretty hard to get all the way down Puget sound and into Bremerton, therefore harder for invasions. There're a couple o' big Navy shipyards on the kitsap peninsula. Incidentally, the Bremerton/Silverdale area is where my mom grew up.
Anyway, the reason that we went the wrong way was because at NO POINT during this entire trip were there signs pointing the way to either Port Townsend or Poulsbo. Street signs in the Kitsap Peninsula will only tell you what the very next town is—if you're lucky. So having brought no really detailed map (because we foolishly assumed that, you know, there would be signs on the freeway telling us which way to go), Carrie called her dad on her cell phone. Actually that makes no sense. Carrie used her cell phone to call her dad. That's better. He looked up a map (like my dad Jim, Carrie's dad Jim likes just looking at maps) and assured us that we were going the right way (thanks to my kickass innate sense of direction), and we should just keep on keepin' on until we got to SR3. So we did, and eventually we got to Poulsbo
The waterfront of Poulsbo is the freakin' cutest little town around. It's all Scandinavian themed, with winding streets and Norwiegan buildings and nothing but small, privately-owned businesses (and a few lawyer offices for some reason). It made me wonder, "Why aren't ALL shopping areas themed in a cute way like this?" I couldn't think of a good answer other than "It might make places like this seem less special."
Anyway, the reason we stopped in Poulsbo (besides the cuteness) was because there was a bead store there, of course! You think we'd just go to a town to enjoy? Silly monkey! We went for the beads! It was an okay bead store as these things go. A good amount of room and very open, and also a ton of plants growing everywehre, including a mini palm tree lookin' thing. After I mentioned it to Carrie she said she didn't even notice that there were plants in there—all she saw were them shiny beads!
But to me that wasn't the best part about Poulsbo. To me the best part was the bakery, home of the "world famous" Poulsbo bread. You've heard of it, right? Well, I was where they make it! They also make doughnut, so we loaded up with a dozen of them. Next stop was the stamp store, called Rubber Soul. Isn't that the name of a band? Anyway, while carrie was lookin' around in there, I went back to the bakery and picked up my new friend:
They're called Doughboys. Why-o-why doesn't EVERY bakery make these things? I'd buy them by the dozen! Look at that little guy!
After eating lunch at J.J.'s Fish place or whatever it was called (Carrie had French onion soup; I had fish & chips of course), we headed out of Poulsbo and on north, leaving the Kitsap Peninsula entirely by crossing over the Hood Canal Bridge.
Then it was a jaunty jaunt on up the Olympic Peninsula in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountain Range up to loverly Port Townsend.
As cool as Poulsbo's waterfront was, Port Townsend's was just as cool but in a different way. Port Townsend was a major port in the early part of the 20th century, and as such most of the buildings along the waterfront are extremely old and freakin' awesome in their architecture. Tons of cool, tall buildings from before modernism took architecture by the throat and strangled the creativity out of it. Why did we decide to make Port Townsend our destination, anyway? Why, because there's a bead store there, dumbass! Jeez, you think you would have guessed since that was the reason we went to Poulsbo as well!
Anyway, we know the owners, Phil and Lois, from them being at every single bead festival around. They were shocked and amazed to see us because Carrie has said that we'd come and see the store for the last four years or so and we never had before.
Port Townsend's waterfront is also full of some really cool shops, including PT Bunny, a store that carried Carrie's jewelry at one point a couple years ago. A glass spontaneously broke itself while we were there, which was kind of creepy. Seriously, it was like a ghost just snapped it. We were both a good four feet from it when it happened. There were many other cool places, and we walked up and down the entire Water Street. Before leaving we stopped at The Elevated Ice Cream Co. Imagine a Baskin & Robbins only instead of 32 flavors there's maybe 20, but instead of just scooping the ice cream into cups or cones, Elevated gives you the option of making a milkshake out of any of the flavors they carry. We gots a lemon custard ice cream milkshake. Fuckin' A, man. Best... milkshake... ever.
So then it was on back home to Tacoma, 77 miles away. We listened to some D on the way back, ate a doughnut or two, and had a generally great time, getting back home just before 6:00 p.m. Wow, you're thinking, that sounds like a fun, busy day.
But wait! It ain't done yet, Charlie!
That evening was the Espinoza Manor's first-ever-in-60,000-years "Meat and Mars" party! Here's the text from the invitation:
"MARVEL at the sheer awesomenaity of the planet MARS in the night sky! DELIGHT in the ebullient flavors of EXOTIC MEATS!"
So Carrie and I headed up the Eastside of puget sound, parallel to the trip we had just taken, to partake of some tasty treats. Among the meats there were Ostrich, Alligator, Buffalo, and Kangaroo. It were a pretty good party except it weren't as fun as that house usually is because Tashia wasn't there (due to work) and neither were Geoff and Brandy (due to being in Nevada—didn't I mention that?). I also didn't get to hang out with Sandy very much on account of she was busy cooking most of the time. Carrie and I eventually left and after I took a wrong fork in the road in Seattle we got home sometime around 12:15 a.m.
That was a freakin' huge amount of stuff to do in one day. Freakin'!
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Friday, August 29, 2003
No way in Hades
I did really well on my tapes before lunch... but then that was it. Oops.
Carrie went to Wild Waves -slash- Enchanted Village with Brandy, Mark, Viki, and the kids. There was only a little bit of trauma, so I guess it went okay. She got some sun (from wearin' a tank top—sexay), which is nice. She stopped by her folks' house on the way home to pick up her birth certificate on account of the whole Babe Factory is going to Canada on Sunday evening, and they don't want to get unecessarily stopped. Not only did she come home with that, but with a big acoustic guitar that she hadn't touched in some four years.
I cooked dinner, which consisted of stir-fry chicken with onion and red pepper (and of course garlic). After I removed my half Carrie added coconut milk and curry to hers, making a fantastic-tasting but horrifyingly spicy chicken curry of which there was no way in hades I could partake. We had some Duck Pond red wine with dinner which was good but really strong. Carrie only drank like a quarter of a glass because her folks had invited her to go see Pirates of the Caribbean with them.
I didn't go on account of seeing it before. While she was watching an excellent film with her folks, I was hanging out with Zaphod watching a really excellent episode of rasslin' (highlighted by an almost 30-minute match between Eddie Guerrero and John Cena for Eddie's US Champhionship).
Carrie went to Wild Waves -slash- Enchanted Village with Brandy, Mark, Viki, and the kids. There was only a little bit of trauma, so I guess it went okay. She got some sun (from wearin' a tank top—sexay), which is nice. She stopped by her folks' house on the way home to pick up her birth certificate on account of the whole Babe Factory is going to Canada on Sunday evening, and they don't want to get unecessarily stopped. Not only did she come home with that, but with a big acoustic guitar that she hadn't touched in some four years.
I cooked dinner, which consisted of stir-fry chicken with onion and red pepper (and of course garlic). After I removed my half Carrie added coconut milk and curry to hers, making a fantastic-tasting but horrifyingly spicy chicken curry of which there was no way in hades I could partake. We had some Duck Pond red wine with dinner which was good but really strong. Carrie only drank like a quarter of a glass because her folks had invited her to go see Pirates of the Caribbean with them.
I didn't go on account of seeing it before. While she was watching an excellent film with her folks, I was hanging out with Zaphod watching a really excellent episode of rasslin' (highlighted by an almost 30-minute match between Eddie Guerrero and John Cena for Eddie's US Champhionship).
posted by Christopher at 7:57 AM
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Thursday, August 28, 2003
Crackdown Part 2
Brandy came by early in the morning and picked up Carrie so that the two of 'em could take the kids to Seattle for nonstop fun at the Pacific Science Center and surrounding areas. I did an okay job of cracking down again. Here's how my segments boiled down:
Anyway, after Carrie got back (she brought home a little cheapie pizza for me to munch upon) we watched The Guru. You know what? Since we've got a three-day weekend coming up, why don't I actually try to catch up on all my Movie Reviews? Then you'll know what I thought of The Guru.
I just put up an ANGRY BEEF sighting that I really like.
Carrie is going to hang out with Brandy and the kids again today, only this time they're going to go to Wild Waves in the afternoon. Don't really envy them.
- 1.75 hours
- 1.25 hours
- 1.25 hours
Anyway, after Carrie got back (she brought home a little cheapie pizza for me to munch upon) we watched The Guru. You know what? Since we've got a three-day weekend coming up, why don't I actually try to catch up on all my Movie Reviews? Then you'll know what I thought of The Guru.
I just put up an ANGRY BEEF sighting that I really like.
Carrie is going to hang out with Brandy and the kids again today, only this time they're going to go to Wild Waves in the afternoon. Don't really envy them.
posted by Christopher at 8:59 AM
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Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Crackdown
Yesterday (I love how all my posts begin with "Yesterday" now) was one of my best days for cracking down on work in a long time. Here's how my workday goes. My workday is divided into three blocks:
Like yesterday I lost 15 minutes from the Before Lunch segment, which is a very, very impressive thing for me now. Recently I've been skipping the Before Lunch segment altogether. During my lunch break yesterday I dropped another $90 on pills to keep me from bleeding internally. Yay!
I didn't do nearly so well on the After Lunch/Before Rushes segment, only working for one of the two hours, and that only like 15-30 minutes at a time. So I lost a whole hour there.
Then after getting back from picking up my rushes (I only had the one), I also went to Fred Meyer, so I "lost" another 45 minutes there. But I was able to finish my rush in the remaining hour and 15 minutes, and was done with my work by 7:00. So altogether I lost two hours yesterday, which is (sadly) an impressively small amount of time lost.
Cat came over right when I was done with my work. She and Carrie watched Drumline again on account of not really remembering much of the 2nd half due to a little bit too much marguerita. Cat left and Brandy came over at about 9:00. Brandy wanted to watch The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension on account of never having seen it before, but Carrie was in no mood for that film, so Brandy and I watched it over at Neighbor Gary's, where Zaphod started showing off like nobody's business. He even crawled in our laps at one point, and he never does that.
Oh, and during the Fark photoshop contest in which ANGRY BEEF partipated yesterday, he "accidentally" left a link to his website in his post. He got 149 hits from it in one day... and 70-some already today. Oops!
- Before Lunch
- After Lunch/Before Rushes
- After Rushes
Like yesterday I lost 15 minutes from the Before Lunch segment, which is a very, very impressive thing for me now. Recently I've been skipping the Before Lunch segment altogether. During my lunch break yesterday I dropped another $90 on pills to keep me from bleeding internally. Yay!
I didn't do nearly so well on the After Lunch/Before Rushes segment, only working for one of the two hours, and that only like 15-30 minutes at a time. So I lost a whole hour there.
Then after getting back from picking up my rushes (I only had the one), I also went to Fred Meyer, so I "lost" another 45 minutes there. But I was able to finish my rush in the remaining hour and 15 minutes, and was done with my work by 7:00. So altogether I lost two hours yesterday, which is (sadly) an impressively small amount of time lost.
Cat came over right when I was done with my work. She and Carrie watched Drumline again on account of not really remembering much of the 2nd half due to a little bit too much marguerita. Cat left and Brandy came over at about 9:00. Brandy wanted to watch The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension on account of never having seen it before, but Carrie was in no mood for that film, so Brandy and I watched it over at Neighbor Gary's, where Zaphod started showing off like nobody's business. He even crawled in our laps at one point, and he never does that.
Oh, and during the Fark photoshop contest in which ANGRY BEEF partipated yesterday, he "accidentally" left a link to his website in his post. He got 149 hits from it in one day... and 70-some already today. Oops!
posted by Christopher at 8:06 AM
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Which is short for...
Yesterday was Carrie's last day of work before starting on her PAID vacation! She is very excited. In the evening she went and hung out with Katie.
Neighbor Gary left last Friday to go pick up a car from the east coast and drive it back to the west, so I'm taking care of his cat, Phod (which is short for Zaphod, which is short for... well, if you don't know already you won't get it). So I went over there and watched rasslin' with him while Carrie was out. I also borrowed some CDs from his place, including none other than the D.
Neighbor Gary left last Friday to go pick up a car from the east coast and drive it back to the west, so I'm taking care of his cat, Phod (which is short for Zaphod, which is short for... well, if you don't know already you won't get it). So I went over there and watched rasslin' with him while Carrie was out. I also borrowed some CDs from his place, including none other than the D.
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Monday, August 25, 2003
ERCBCR
Yesterday was Fools Play practice, and we came up with a really cool thing that's kind of the End of a Routine, Character Bit, and then Complete Routine. I think we should call it the ERCBCR, but that's a bit confusing. Carrie went over to Stephanie's for dinner, but first she bought me a giant burger from Jack in the Box. I worked on tapes all evening, but took a break to watch Alien Resurrection. You know, every time I see that film I like it both less and more.
I had some insanely vivid dreams last night
I had some insanely vivid dreams last night
- A Ringu-style nightmare wherein I would die if I answered the phone
- A conversation with WWE's The Undertaker about his relationship with his girlfriend--that took place in an elementary school classroom.
- A dream in which the characters on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful kept on giving hints that the show was coming to an end, which rather disappointed Carrie. Carrie was convinced that in the end there would be a big confrontation between Mossimo and Stephanie. Repeated attempts to color a picture of two faces that started out as filling in squares on a piece of graph paper, to filling in squares with a computer, to coloring wiht a piece of burnt-sienna chalk on a photocopied drawing. The face on the right I'm pretty sure was supposed to represent the devil, but it had huge anime-style eyes that were set very far apart and an almost perfectly round head with sparse tufts of hair here and there.
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Sunday, August 24, 2003
A heap load of fun
I did more things yesterday than just write an article and a movie review. Oh, yes. My college friend Sarah is turning 26 today actually, so yesterday was kinda her party. It was gonna happen at a restaurant up in Seattle, but people were welcome to come by their house early so as to get pre-funked and carpool. Well, I had to go to Fools Play that evening because Mr. Tanner wasn't gonna be able to make it, so I figured I would just go up to their house and hang out until they left for Seattle, at which time I would leave for Olympia.
They just moved into this new house like last week so I had never been there before, but I got directions off of MapQuest. It turns out it's like within two freakin' miles of the house in Kent where I grew up, so I actually knew the area pretty well (I know where the Willis Street/Des Moines exit off of 167 is, and I know James Street, etc.). But while I was driving down the road they live on, looking at house numbers and trying to figure out whether I was going in the right direction or whether I had already passed it, I noticed a big-ass Garage Sale sign. Well, I figured I had a couple minutes to kill so I pulled on over.
As I was pulling over, another car pulled over on the other side of the street and out hopped Ryan from The Wastelanders, who was also looking for Sarah's house. So it was really cool to see him. He asked the Garage Sale lady if there were any records ("not for sale" was the answer), and then a younger girl there said, "You look familiar."
"Huh? I do?" Ryan said.
"Yeah. Do you know..."
Well it turns out that a guy Ryan knew up in Bellingham actually lives in that house. The guy wasn't there becaues he was out touring with a couple of bands (one of which Ryan had seen perform).
Anyway, we get back in our cars and Ryan keeps going the same way he's going because it seems like the house numbers are pointing in that direction. I pop a U-turn and follow him, but I notice that one of the numbers in the string seems wrong. So before I get back out to the main road I turn around and start heading back up, past the Garage Sale (way past).
See, for some reason the house numbers in Kent are really confusing and I can't put my finger on the reason why. But eventually I narrowed it down to a one-block area where the house should be. After driving up and down the street several times, I realized that there was one house that didn't have house numbers on it. I parked around the corner and, sure enough, it was theirs.
I just have to say that the house is pretty darned spectacular. It's one-level, with three bedrooms, a living room, a gigantor kitchen, a mud room, a big ol' deck in the back with built-in benches, a nice front lawn, and an entire freakin' acre of a lot. Plus a cat. It really made me want to buy a house. I hear you need money for that, though. Is that true?
When they were getting ready to leave for the restaurant, Ryan gave me a whole heap load of fun stuff from the trunk of his car—an original Nintendo Entertainment Center, some He-Man toys (and tons of the little comics that came with the toys), and a handful of other random stuff.
I left for Fools Play and got there like 45 minutes before the show started. The show ("Variety Show") was really a hoot, although it was a bit sloppier (and more offensive) than usual. The highlights included a cereal ad for "Saurkraut Cereal" in which the badguy was "Little Hitler" and where "Kaptain Kraut" used the power of sour to help the kid defeat him. Also a fantastic Who's On First B about betting on ponies -slash- satisfying your wife. Offensive? Yes.
I came straight home after the show on account o' I ain't gots the moneys. Carrie was hanging out with our friend Cat, having margueritas and "watching" Drumline. Cat's a heap load of fun, so I'm glad I got to hang out with her some that night, too.
After Cat's fiance (also a Chris) picked her up I made a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich with that kickass spiced blueberry honey jam. Carrie was craving milk for some reason, and it does go weill with PB&J, so at like 12:30 a.m. we drove to the grocery store while listening to The Wastelanders' cover of Billie Jean. I bought milk and a piece of chocolate cake for each of us. We ate them in bed (I also ate my PB&J) while drinking milk. Wholesome.
They just moved into this new house like last week so I had never been there before, but I got directions off of MapQuest. It turns out it's like within two freakin' miles of the house in Kent where I grew up, so I actually knew the area pretty well (I know where the Willis Street/Des Moines exit off of 167 is, and I know James Street, etc.). But while I was driving down the road they live on, looking at house numbers and trying to figure out whether I was going in the right direction or whether I had already passed it, I noticed a big-ass Garage Sale sign. Well, I figured I had a couple minutes to kill so I pulled on over.
As I was pulling over, another car pulled over on the other side of the street and out hopped Ryan from The Wastelanders, who was also looking for Sarah's house. So it was really cool to see him. He asked the Garage Sale lady if there were any records ("not for sale" was the answer), and then a younger girl there said, "You look familiar."
"Huh? I do?" Ryan said.
"Yeah. Do you know..."
Well it turns out that a guy Ryan knew up in Bellingham actually lives in that house. The guy wasn't there becaues he was out touring with a couple of bands (one of which Ryan had seen perform).
Anyway, we get back in our cars and Ryan keeps going the same way he's going because it seems like the house numbers are pointing in that direction. I pop a U-turn and follow him, but I notice that one of the numbers in the string seems wrong. So before I get back out to the main road I turn around and start heading back up, past the Garage Sale (way past).
See, for some reason the house numbers in Kent are really confusing and I can't put my finger on the reason why. But eventually I narrowed it down to a one-block area where the house should be. After driving up and down the street several times, I realized that there was one house that didn't have house numbers on it. I parked around the corner and, sure enough, it was theirs.
I just have to say that the house is pretty darned spectacular. It's one-level, with three bedrooms, a living room, a gigantor kitchen, a mud room, a big ol' deck in the back with built-in benches, a nice front lawn, and an entire freakin' acre of a lot. Plus a cat. It really made me want to buy a house. I hear you need money for that, though. Is that true?
When they were getting ready to leave for the restaurant, Ryan gave me a whole heap load of fun stuff from the trunk of his car—an original Nintendo Entertainment Center, some He-Man toys (and tons of the little comics that came with the toys), and a handful of other random stuff.
I left for Fools Play and got there like 45 minutes before the show started. The show ("Variety Show") was really a hoot, although it was a bit sloppier (and more offensive) than usual. The highlights included a cereal ad for "Saurkraut Cereal" in which the badguy was "Little Hitler" and where "Kaptain Kraut" used the power of sour to help the kid defeat him. Also a fantastic Who's On First B about betting on ponies -slash- satisfying your wife. Offensive? Yes.
I came straight home after the show on account o' I ain't gots the moneys. Carrie was hanging out with our friend Cat, having margueritas and "watching" Drumline. Cat's a heap load of fun, so I'm glad I got to hang out with her some that night, too.
After Cat's fiance (also a Chris) picked her up I made a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich with that kickass spiced blueberry honey jam. Carrie was craving milk for some reason, and it does go weill with PB&J, so at like 12:30 a.m. we drove to the grocery store while listening to The Wastelanders' cover of Billie Jean. I bought milk and a piece of chocolate cake for each of us. We ate them in bed (I also ate my PB&J) while drinking milk. Wholesome.
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Saturday, August 23, 2003
New article and review!
I just put up my first new Article in almost two whole months! Sorry about that, but now that I have a lovely scanner it should be much easier to write articles. I figure I should be able to do one just about every two weeks (one week for scanning/prepwork, one week to actually write the darned thing). So look for another one in a couple of weeks hopefully.
Anyway, this is a good'un. It's called Electronic Karate Fighters: The Pamphlet!
Anyway, this is a good'un. It's called Electronic Karate Fighters: The Pamphlet!
I've also written a new Movie Review, which is good on account of I've been falling behind again. Anyway, go read my reveiw for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
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A nice day off
We went to lunch at The Rosewood Cafe and ran a couple of errands (bank, liquor store) in the middle of the day. Cat and Melissa were supposed to come over later in the evening for to watch a movie or something and to have some drinks or something, but Cat couldn't make it. So instead Carrie and I went to Blockbuster (boo) where I have a free movie rental every month until december (yay). They were having a sale on pre-viewed DVDs, so we bought Punch-Drunk Love (Superbit Special Edition) and Drumline (Widescreen), and we used the free movie rental coupon to rent The Guru. We watched Punch Drunk Love that evening and I freakin' loved it. It was a nice day off, although we was both kinda tired all day.
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Friday, August 22, 2003
All diplomatical-like
Every Thursday in downtown Tacoma they (you know, the ubiquitous people) rope off a block and have a big ol' outdoor market. If the apartment is clean enough, one of use will usually try to go down there and buy some fresh-cut flowers for to make the place up-ly spruced. Carrie had yesterday off, so she went on down. She tried calling Christine to walk down there with her, but she weren't home. /sad.
While Carrie was off buying flowers I got a call from Downstairs Chris & Panome, who wanted me to go to Citysearch and look up a market for them. He couldn't remember if it was in Kent or Auburn. So I poked around and found it for 'em (in Kent). Then I went and dropped off my tapes and when I came back there were some loverly flowers on the "dining room" table, and some more on one of the bookshelves. While I was still working Christine called (on account o' the message Carrie had left earlier), so Carrie drove to her apartment and the two o' them walked to Kickstand and back and had a marvelous time.
A while back Carrie had asked Viki if it would be alright to take Sophia to see that Uptown Girls movie, and Viki had just said "probably." So Carrie called their house to ask Viki if it would actually be okay to take her that evening, and Sophia answered. Since Carrie didn't know if they were actually going, she had to play it all diplomatical-like:
Speaking of food, I did that thing yesterday that they (those people again) say is good for you where you don't eat like three huge meals, but you eat small amounts like constantly all day. So I was eating practically every hour or two. I had sushi for breakfast (really!), then Carrie made me a homemade sausage McMuffin wit' cheese, then I ate a buttload of cashew nuts, then I had some string cheese wrapped with deli ham, then the dim sum, then some green beans wit' bacon in a butter/soy sauce sauce, then a PB&J sammitch (with some jam that a customer of Carrie's made, which kicks ALL ass—spiced blueberry honey jam).
In the evening I worked on Bead Factory stuff, watched rasslin' and Ren & Stimpy, and that wuz abouts it.
While Carrie was off buying flowers I got a call from Downstairs Chris & Panome, who wanted me to go to Citysearch and look up a market for them. He couldn't remember if it was in Kent or Auburn. So I poked around and found it for 'em (in Kent). Then I went and dropped off my tapes and when I came back there were some loverly flowers on the "dining room" table, and some more on one of the bookshelves. While I was still working Christine called (on account o' the message Carrie had left earlier), so Carrie drove to her apartment and the two o' them walked to Kickstand and back and had a marvelous time.
A while back Carrie had asked Viki if it would be alright to take Sophia to see that Uptown Girls movie, and Viki had just said "probably." So Carrie called their house to ask Viki if it would actually be okay to take her that evening, and Sophia answered. Since Carrie didn't know if they were actually going, she had to play it all diplomatical-like:
CARRIE: Hey, Sophia. Do you know why I'm calling?So Carrie left to go see the movie. Shortly thereafter there was a knock at the door. It was Panome with some goodies for me—some fresh dim sum for me from the market I helped them find, as a way of saying thanks! There was pork, shrimp, and lobster, and a lot of it, and still hot. Yowza! I ate muchly, but I saved one of each kind for Carrie because I am, after all, the Best Boyfriend Ever (BBE).
SOPHIA: No.
CARRIE: Well, in that case I'm calling to talk to your mom.
SOPHIA: She's not here, and daddy's in the shower.
CARRIE: Well, let's leave him there. Okay, I'll try to track down your mom.
SOPHIA: Okay. Don't forget you're taking me to a movie tonight!
CARRIE: Well, that's why I called!
Speaking of food, I did that thing yesterday that they (those people again) say is good for you where you don't eat like three huge meals, but you eat small amounts like constantly all day. So I was eating practically every hour or two. I had sushi for breakfast (really!), then Carrie made me a homemade sausage McMuffin wit' cheese, then I ate a buttload of cashew nuts, then I had some string cheese wrapped with deli ham, then the dim sum, then some green beans wit' bacon in a butter/soy sauce sauce, then a PB&J sammitch (with some jam that a customer of Carrie's made, which kicks ALL ass—spiced blueberry honey jam).
In the evening I worked on Bead Factory stuff, watched rasslin' and Ren & Stimpy, and that wuz abouts it.
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Thursday, August 21, 2003
Return to the wasteland...
The Wastelanders are back, and they've just released SEVEN (three of them studio-recorded) songs for download on their website RIGHT HERE!!
They are freakin' awesome songs, especially "Go Down Mother." And the four covers are very good. Their first-ever album comes out soon and I'm very excited.
They are freakin' awesome songs, especially "Go Down Mother." And the four covers are very good. Their first-ever album comes out soon and I'm very excited.
posted by Christopher at 3:05 PM
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Nothing much
Wow, really nothing much at all happened last night. Carrie made yummy sausage for dinner. I spent a good deal of yesterday working out a really tricky programming problem involving drop-down menus dynamically generating content for other drop-down menus, and then transferring those choices into another form that... awe, anyway, I'm a nerd.
ANGRY BEEF has been doing quite a few Photoshop contests at Fark.com. If you don't already, I suggest everybody possible should go to Fark.com as much as possible.
I forgot to write the Fools Play Newsletter again yesterday. I think I'll do that right now.
ANGRY BEEF has been doing quite a few Photoshop contests at Fark.com. If you don't already, I suggest everybody possible should go to Fark.com as much as possible.
I forgot to write the Fools Play Newsletter again yesterday. I think I'll do that right now.
posted by Christopher at 8:48 AM
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Wednesday, August 20, 2003
(Basically)
Yesterday I actually kinda finished my work before midnight for once, so I was kinda like, hmm, what should I do now? I basically finished the Information Booth space on Fools Play Island (basically). I did basically all the work I could on The Bead Factory's website (basically). Carrie had basically done all the dishes (basically). So I basically had nothing to do (basically). So I basically watched some TV with Carrie and had this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that there was something that I was supposed to be doing (basically).
Being the bright boy that I am, though, I completely forgot that I have to write the Fools Play Newsletter. Dumb... dumb... dumbass!
Being the bright boy that I am, though, I completely forgot that I have to write the Fools Play Newsletter. Dumb... dumb... dumbass!
posted by Christopher at 11:15 AM
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Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Late Night with Me
Well, after Carrie was feeling better (see yesterday's post) she went to work. But she had so much work to do that basically she had to stay until it was done, and that could have been, you know, like anywhere from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. depending on how fast she could move through it. I meanwhile was feeling the aftershocks from that brutal 9.6 Richter Scale tape, and so had to stay up late as well.
I did take a break to watch rasslin' and wash many a dirty dish. And many a dirty dish I did wash.
Carrie eventually called me and said that whenever I was ready to call it a night that I should come meet her at the store so she wouldn't have to walk to her car on her own that late at night. It's kind of a spooky part of town at night. Actually, pretty much ALL of Tacoma is spooky at night, but very safe during the day. Anyway, I called it a night at 12:30 in the morning, which is kinda ironic, don't you think?
Mine brotha gave me a CD with the new Fools Play Island mechanisms and whatnot on it, so I've started working on my sections (starting with the Information Booth). Which is part of the reason I had to stay up typing tapes until 12:30 in the morning. Then I wuz gwine t'get up at 6:30 to finish up everything, but the alarm was somehow set for 7:00 instead (which means I got up at 7:30 after snoozing). But I actaully cracked down pretty good and finished two tapes before I dropped stuff off around noonish. I even took like a 20-25 minute walk in between them! Yowza-yow-dow!
I feel like there's something else that happened yesterday that I wanted to 'blog about. But now I can't remember it. That's what I get for waiting so long into the day before writing about the previous day. I started this 'blog in the first place because I am the most forgetful person I know as to what events have recently happened to me. On Saturday Brandy had asked me what I had done the week before, and I cannot stress enough how I completely did not remember going to a baseball game three days earlier.
Maybe I need more sleep?
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UPDATE: Wed Aug 20, 11:06:08 AM
I remembered the thing I wuz gwine t'tell all y'all! Carrie had also called around dinnertime to say I should picke her up and we should just have a quick bite out for dinner. We were going to go to The Rosewood Cafe, but it's closed on Mondays (like 90% of the restaurants in this town—don't people eat on Mondays?), so we went to the Parkway Tavern instead. Tha's about it.
I did take a break to watch rasslin' and wash many a dirty dish. And many a dirty dish I did wash.
Carrie eventually called me and said that whenever I was ready to call it a night that I should come meet her at the store so she wouldn't have to walk to her car on her own that late at night. It's kind of a spooky part of town at night. Actually, pretty much ALL of Tacoma is spooky at night, but very safe during the day. Anyway, I called it a night at 12:30 in the morning, which is kinda ironic, don't you think?
Mine brotha gave me a CD with the new Fools Play Island mechanisms and whatnot on it, so I've started working on my sections (starting with the Information Booth). Which is part of the reason I had to stay up typing tapes until 12:30 in the morning. Then I wuz gwine t'get up at 6:30 to finish up everything, but the alarm was somehow set for 7:00 instead (which means I got up at 7:30 after snoozing). But I actaully cracked down pretty good and finished two tapes before I dropped stuff off around noonish. I even took like a 20-25 minute walk in between them! Yowza-yow-dow!
I feel like there's something else that happened yesterday that I wanted to 'blog about. But now I can't remember it. That's what I get for waiting so long into the day before writing about the previous day. I started this 'blog in the first place because I am the most forgetful person I know as to what events have recently happened to me. On Saturday Brandy had asked me what I had done the week before, and I cannot stress enough how I completely did not remember going to a baseball game three days earlier.
Maybe I need more sleep?
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UPDATE: Wed Aug 20, 11:06:08 AM
I remembered the thing I wuz gwine t'tell all y'all! Carrie had also called around dinnertime to say I should picke her up and we should just have a quick bite out for dinner. We were going to go to The Rosewood Cafe, but it's closed on Mondays (like 90% of the restaurants in this town—don't people eat on Mondays?), so we went to the Parkway Tavern instead. Tha's about it.
posted by Christopher at 2:16 PM
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Monday, August 18, 2003
What's that word I'm looking for?
Carrie was all, um, what do you call it when somebody's vomiting a whole heck of a lot? Vomitous? Yeah, Carrie was all vomitous this morning. I've got one load of laundry running because of it already, and there's another one on the way. I was also up 'til like 1:30 in the morning finishing up une tape tres monstreuse, which I didn't even finish last night. I had to get up early (before 7:00 a.m.) and finish it. Fruit-striped gum.
I had a lot of trouble figuring out a good ANGRY BEEF Sighting this morning. I want to start doing them three times a week. Three times a week times fifty-two weeks a year equals 156 sightings a year. I've actually got about 60 so far this year. What I want to do is at the end of each year release a "compilation desktop wallpaper" that's a collage of all the sightings for the previous year.
Oh, I've added a link to toddbot.com. Check it out, babycakes!
I had a lot of trouble figuring out a good ANGRY BEEF Sighting this morning. I want to start doing them three times a week. Three times a week times fifty-two weeks a year equals 156 sightings a year. I've actually got about 60 so far this year. What I want to do is at the end of each year release a "compilation desktop wallpaper" that's a collage of all the sightings for the previous year.
Oh, I've added a link to toddbot.com. Check it out, babycakes!
posted by Christopher at 10:24 AM
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Sunday, August 17, 2003
Back on the wagon (off?)
On Saturday I stopped by Snapdragon to see if Branyd was working there, but they're not gonna need her to work Saturdays anymore. But soon she starts working full-time at The Bead Factory, a fact about which we are all very excited.
I spent a good chunk of Saturday actually writing an Article—my first one in two months. It was really kinda weird getting back into the swing of writing an article, because they take a very specific mindset that I hadn't used in a long time.
Fools Play was Fools Play Trial, and I got to be the judge. There was a big crowd again, and there were a good deal of newbies. Afterwards it seemed like the ENTIRE audience went to Red Robin. I really didn't have the money to buy food there, but I did anyways for some (dumbass) reason.
Carrie went to a Bridal Shower during the day (while I was working on the article), and spent basically the entire day drinking Diet Cokes, so she was so jakked up on caffeine that she didn't get to sleep until well after the sun had come up.
I spent a good chunk of Saturday actually writing an Article—my first one in two months. It was really kinda weird getting back into the swing of writing an article, because they take a very specific mindset that I hadn't used in a long time.
Fools Play was Fools Play Trial, and I got to be the judge. There was a big crowd again, and there were a good deal of newbies. Afterwards it seemed like the ENTIRE audience went to Red Robin. I really didn't have the money to buy food there, but I did anyways for some (dumbass) reason.
Carrie went to a Bridal Shower during the day (while I was working on the article), and spent basically the entire day drinking Diet Cokes, so she was so jakked up on caffeine that she didn't get to sleep until well after the sun had come up.
posted by Christopher at 9:23 AM
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Saturday, August 16, 2003
The Rosewood Cafe
I really took Friday completely off. Other than dropping my tapes off and buying various meats and cheeses at Fred Meyer's, I didn't do anything productive. I did, however, watch Rushmore on DVD. Every time I watch either of Wes Anderson's last two films, I'm constantly amazed at how freakin' good they are. In a way it makes me want to make movies, but in another very real way it makes me never want to try, because I know there's no freakin' way in Hell that I'll ever be able to make a movie that good.
In the evening Carrie, Christine, and I went to our pal Barry's new restaurant, The Rosewood Cafe for their opening night.
I had a kickass club-type sandwich (called the "Rosewood Deluxe"). Melissa and Travis showed up later, as did Neil and a few people from the Kickstand Cafe. I highly recommend that everybody who lives in or even remotely close to Tacoma should eat there. NOW, assholes! The place is really pretty cute, and as soon as the liquor license goes through, it'll have kind of a wine bar thang going on. But since it didn't, afterwards the (original) three of us went to Il Fiasco, which does have a wine bar, for wine and dessert. I had "Death By Chocolate" cake, Carrie had a berry cobbler, and Christine had Tiramisu, and we all three split a bottle of Shiraz.
It was a good evening—nay, a marvelously swinging evening, but we went home and fell asleep and slept way too late.
In the evening Carrie, Christine, and I went to our pal Barry's new restaurant, The Rosewood Cafe for their opening night.
I had a kickass club-type sandwich (called the "Rosewood Deluxe"). Melissa and Travis showed up later, as did Neil and a few people from the Kickstand Cafe. I highly recommend that everybody who lives in or even remotely close to Tacoma should eat there. NOW, assholes! The place is really pretty cute, and as soon as the liquor license goes through, it'll have kind of a wine bar thang going on. But since it didn't, afterwards the (original) three of us went to Il Fiasco, which does have a wine bar, for wine and dessert. I had "Death By Chocolate" cake, Carrie had a berry cobbler, and Christine had Tiramisu, and we all three split a bottle of Shiraz.
It was a good evening—nay, a marvelously swinging evening, but we went home and fell asleep and slept way too late.
posted by Christopher at 12:19 PM
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Thursday, August 14, 2003
Missouri loves the BEEF
Well, my Wil Wheaton text ads all ran out. I only got like 75 hits out of them, which was like 3% of all the runs. Not quite as good as I was hoping. But some dude in Missouri bought an ANGRY BEEF baby doll T-shirt. Hopefully for a woman he knows.
So hopefully word of mouth will spread a little bit more about the BEEFy one. One can only hope.
So hopefully word of mouth will spread a little bit more about the BEEFy one. One can only hope.
posted by Christopher at 10:58 PM
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Man-o-man I loves the garlic
Yesterday Carrie was given a cute, litle, sminy cactus as a gift. This'll be important later in the story.
Carrie & I took our respective dads (both named Jim) to a baseball game for Father's Day (like last year). I know Father's Day was like three months ago, but our schedules and available tickets only meshed together to allow us to see this game. I generally don't like baseball because it's a sport. I generally like it less than most other sports because it's a lot slower-paced than, say, basketball or soccer. I like my sports where something's always happening. But this game the Mariners defeated Toronto 13 to 6, so it was really actually very energetic and fast-paced with lots of action. So that makes me say boo-ya, granny. Boo. Ya.
It was a night game so we stopped beforehand at the Pyramid Ale brewery for dinner. They have the best bleu cheese burger ever we discovered. Three of the four of us had one (my dad had a bacon burger instead). For the past few days I'd been feeling kinda contsantly hungry. Not terribly hungry, but just a little bit. So yesterday I stuffed my goddam face. I had the enormous bleu cheese burger, a beer, and all my fries. At the game only a couple of hours later I had a hot dog—and I only paid $3.25 for it, which if you know SafeCo Field you'll know is some kinda miracle. Carrie bought them garlic fries, and I ate half of them. Those garlic fries are holy-crap good. Man-o-man I loves the garlic. I will smell of it for days to come, but tha's otay wit' me, babycakes!
Anyway, it was mucho fun, but we had to drop both our dads off on the way home so we didn't get in until shortly after the midnight time. You know that time. Midnight. We got home and shortly thereafter crawled gratefully into bed. Fantastico came and joined us a while later and while we were petting her I noticed something strange. But Carrie said it first:
"What is that thing in her chin?"
Sure enough, there was an inch-long cactus spine embedded in Fantastico's chin. And I mean really in there. She didn't seem to mind, though. She was purring and rolling her head around and bonking it into us and the bedpost like always. She seemed perfectly happy. I pulled it out anyway, but there was no blood so we figure she's all right.
See? I told you that Carrie getting a cactus was important! You all forgot, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU!? And you call yourselves my friggin' friends.
Carrie & I took our respective dads (both named Jim) to a baseball game for Father's Day (like last year). I know Father's Day was like three months ago, but our schedules and available tickets only meshed together to allow us to see this game. I generally don't like baseball because it's a sport. I generally like it less than most other sports because it's a lot slower-paced than, say, basketball or soccer. I like my sports where something's always happening. But this game the Mariners defeated Toronto 13 to 6, so it was really actually very energetic and fast-paced with lots of action. So that makes me say boo-ya, granny. Boo. Ya.
It was a night game so we stopped beforehand at the Pyramid Ale brewery for dinner. They have the best bleu cheese burger ever we discovered. Three of the four of us had one (my dad had a bacon burger instead). For the past few days I'd been feeling kinda contsantly hungry. Not terribly hungry, but just a little bit. So yesterday I stuffed my goddam face. I had the enormous bleu cheese burger, a beer, and all my fries. At the game only a couple of hours later I had a hot dog—and I only paid $3.25 for it, which if you know SafeCo Field you'll know is some kinda miracle. Carrie bought them garlic fries, and I ate half of them. Those garlic fries are holy-crap good. Man-o-man I loves the garlic. I will smell of it for days to come, but tha's otay wit' me, babycakes!
Anyway, it was mucho fun, but we had to drop both our dads off on the way home so we didn't get in until shortly after the midnight time. You know that time. Midnight. We got home and shortly thereafter crawled gratefully into bed. Fantastico came and joined us a while later and while we were petting her I noticed something strange. But Carrie said it first:
"What is that thing in her chin?"
Sure enough, there was an inch-long cactus spine embedded in Fantastico's chin. And I mean really in there. She didn't seem to mind, though. She was purring and rolling her head around and bonking it into us and the bedpost like always. She seemed perfectly happy. I pulled it out anyway, but there was no blood so we figure she's all right.
See? I told you that Carrie getting a cactus was important! You all forgot, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU!? And you call yourselves my friggin' friends.
posted by Christopher at 8:01 AM
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Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Aargh! My body!
I had something in my eye for like three hours today. It was a pain in the ass. I looked real close in the mirror and couldn't see what the hell it was. I even poked my bare eye with my finger repeatedly and rubbed around the surface trying to see if there was anything I could move around. I even put some eyedrops in, but to no avail. When Carrie called and said that she and Christine were going to the Parkway after her class, and that I was invited, whatever it was, it was still in there.
It's actually still in my eye; it's just moved to a more comfortable spot in my lower eyelid (as opposed to the upper left where it was originally). Hopefully it'll leak out in my sleep. Couple that with this big-ass thing I have on my back—It's gotta be a bug bite. It's like two inches in diameter. My knees have been bugging me for like a whole week. I was continually hungry no matter how much I ate today. My body equals all messed up right now. Jeez!
It's actually still in my eye; it's just moved to a more comfortable spot in my lower eyelid (as opposed to the upper left where it was originally). Hopefully it'll leak out in my sleep. Couple that with this big-ass thing I have on my back—It's gotta be a bug bite. It's like two inches in diameter. My knees have been bugging me for like a whole week. I was continually hungry no matter how much I ate today. My body equals all messed up right now. Jeez!
posted by Christopher at 11:41 PM
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Ain't she cute?
Carrie had a split shift today because she's teaching a class tonight. So she got home around 12:30 and doesn't have to go back until 5:30 or 6:00. So she took a nap, and I sketched this:
Ain't she cute? I think I drew her with too much hair, though. I have to wake her up in about ten minutes or so. Originally I was gonna have to drive her back to The Bead Factory and then pick her up after her class becuase there were so few people in her class that nobody was scheduled to close with her. But a couple other people signed up at the last minute and so now Christine is closing with her and I ain't gots to drive her nowheres.
I do have to go up to Federal Way to talk with my brodda about the Fools Play Website revisions. I got sacked with an enormously long and enormously difficult tape today, so I'm not really getting much work done. But Melissa is back from vacation from The Bead Factory, so I'm getting a good deal of work from her, which is good 'cause it pays more.
Ain't she cute? I think I drew her with too much hair, though. I have to wake her up in about ten minutes or so. Originally I was gonna have to drive her back to The Bead Factory and then pick her up after her class becuase there were so few people in her class that nobody was scheduled to close with her. But a couple other people signed up at the last minute and so now Christine is closing with her and I ain't gots to drive her nowheres.
I do have to go up to Federal Way to talk with my brodda about the Fools Play Website revisions. I got sacked with an enormously long and enormously difficult tape today, so I'm not really getting much work done. But Melissa is back from vacation from The Bead Factory, so I'm getting a good deal of work from her, which is good 'cause it pays more.
posted by Christopher at 3:55 PM
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Monday, August 11, 2003
Gordie Lachance? Yeah, he's a nice guy
Neighbor Gary let me borrow Ringu the movie, so I watched that. That's another movie for me to review, but here's a quickie: It's not quite as scary/disturbing/creepy as the American version, the characters are not quite as well developed, but there are some spectacularly awesome things in the Japanese version that aren't in the american version.
Anyway, last night Carrie got really hungry so I had to thaw out a chicken breast and cook it up for her (I smeared it with homemade garlic paste first). Then I got really hungry, so I ate a boatload of carrots with some blue cheese pecan dip.
I'd also like to give a shout-out to Wil Wheaton (you know, one of the kids from Standy By Me and Wesley from Star Trek the Next Generation). Last week there was an ANGRY BEEF sighting of Wil holding the pissed-off hunk of meat, and he actually wrote ANGRY BEEF about it:
Anyway, last night Carrie got really hungry so I had to thaw out a chicken breast and cook it up for her (I smeared it with homemade garlic paste first). Then I got really hungry, so I ate a boatload of carrots with some blue cheese pecan dip.
I'd also like to give a shout-out to Wil Wheaton (you know, one of the kids from Standy By Me and Wesley from Star Trek the Next Generation). Last week there was an ANGRY BEEF sighting of Wil holding the pissed-off hunk of meat, and he actually wrote ANGRY BEEF about it:
It's nice when celebrities turn out to be nice guys! In return I tried to buy a text ad for ANGRY BEEF at his website, but something went wrong with the signup process. I'll try again tomorrow.
Hey ANGRY BEEF,
First off, anyone who has beef in their name, and writes it in ALL CAPS is A-okay in my book. :)
Second, I LOVED the picture of me and ANGRY BEEF.
I don't remember holding it, though. I must have been REALLY drunk.
Wil
posted by Christopher at 8:56 AM
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Sunday, August 10, 2003
Free Food Day
Not only did Carrie & I go garage sale-ing on Friday, but Friday was also what I call "Free Food Day." Carrie had cooked a fancy dinner of mushrooms stuffed with Italian sausage, prawns in a lemon-garlic-parsley butter sauce, and mixed vegetables (a fancy meal that we ate on the couch). No sooner had we been done when there was a knock at the door. It was our downstairs neighbor with a plate full of fresh spring rolls—homemade fresh spring rolls, and peanut dipping sauce—homemade peanut dipping sauce. Then a few hours later there was another knock on the door and it was Neighbor Gary. His cousing had caught a 20-pound salmon. Did we want a couple of salmon steaks? Did we ever!
We ate them for dinner on Saturday. They were delicious.
Anyway, I just got back from Fools Play, performing the Fools Play Rasslin' League's August pay-per-view, "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." It rocked. It went really smoothly even though the opening match didn't go quite right (at least the audience couldn't tell). The house was practically packed, and only a couple people left early. And they all paid. Carrie went to The Parkway because it was Barry's last night working there—before he opens up his own restaurant, the Rosewood Cafe, next Friday! We are all very, very sexcited.
We ate them for dinner on Saturday. They were delicious.
Anyway, I just got back from Fools Play, performing the Fools Play Rasslin' League's August pay-per-view, "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." It rocked. It went really smoothly even though the opening match didn't go quite right (at least the audience couldn't tell). The house was practically packed, and only a couple people left early. And they all paid. Carrie went to The Parkway because it was Barry's last night working there—before he opens up his own restaurant, the Rosewood Cafe, next Friday! We are all very, very sexcited.
posted by Christopher at 12:17 AM
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Saturday, August 09, 2003
Is "sale-ing" a word?
Yesterday Carrie & I went garage sale-ing. It gave me an idea for an article to write. Not that I'm going to get to it this weekend. I woke up way too late this morning. Well, it was barely morning anymore by the time I woke up. And I have to leave early for Fools Play because we're doing the Fools Play Rasslin' League format, and it takes a lot more prep-work than most formats.
Tomorrow I have to go take another photo of The Bead Factory's new site. Reminde me, okay?
Tomorrow I have to go take another photo of The Bead Factory's new site. Reminde me, okay?
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Friday, August 08, 2003
The benefits of not procrastinating
Yesterday I actually cracked down and got all my work done by like around 4:45. So I was just laying down with a good episode of Knight Rider (the one where KARR comes back from the "dead") when Carrie came home. She needed to go to Trader Joe's for gwoceries, and since I was all done with my schtuff I accompanied her. We got really hungry on the way so we had an impromptu date at Red Robin, then went to the used music store nextdoor. She got a handfull of CDs, and I got two excellent movies: The Limey and The Ring (American version). Plus I got to hang out all evening with Carrie, which is always a good thing.
posted by Christopher at 4:18 PM
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Thursday, August 07, 2003
snap! crackle! comics!
One of Wil Wheaton's text adds at wilwheaton.net led me to toddbot.com. I really love this style of drawing. Man, I wish I had enough free time to draw and/or paint. Actually I probably do, but I spend it all dinking around on this thang called Internet, looking at other peoples' drawings/paintings.
I'm thinking of buying an add for ANGRY BEEF on wilwheaton.net. They're pretty durned cheap. But it only takes PayPal and I really hate PayPal. Hmm...
I'm thinking of buying an add for ANGRY BEEF on wilwheaton.net. They're pretty durned cheap. But it only takes PayPal and I really hate PayPal. Hmm...
posted by Christopher at 11:45 AM
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Tuesday, August 05, 2003
That's a lot of smoke
Monday night Carrie & I went over to her folks' house for a Polish sausage dinner and so that they could give us gifts they (well, really just she) brought back from New York, NY. As we were sitting outside at one point I noticed a big cloud to the south that looked kinda funny. Kinda like smoke.
Well, sure enough as we were leaving and driving around the bay back to Tacoma proper, the whole side of a cliff was on complete fire. There was a helicopter with one of them giant water buckets fighting it, and firefighters had the road completely blocked off below the cliff so we had to go a different way. Here's a news story about it so y'all don't think i'm bullshitting with you.
Well, sure enough as we were leaving and driving around the bay back to Tacoma proper, the whole side of a cliff was on complete fire. There was a helicopter with one of them giant water buckets fighting it, and firefighters had the road completely blocked off below the cliff so we had to go a different way. Here's a news story about it so y'all don't think i'm bullshitting with you.
posted by Christopher at 10:31 AM
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Browser Wars
You know, I've been experimenting quite a bit with other browsers recently, and after a lot of looking I've decided to use Internet Explorer as my default. Why? Why would I support a Microsoft product when there are other browsers out there that are just as good?
The answer is simple: no there ain't.
There are two things that are wrong with all other browsers:
The answer is simple: no there ain't.
There are two things that are wrong with all other browsers:
- Too picky about CSS: After looking at a lot of the webpages I've done, I've discovered that all other browsers besides IE are complete anal freaks when it comes to CSS coding. Whole pages have been screwed up because they can't recognize that an equals sign ( = ) means the same thing as a colon ( : ). IE uses these two symbols interchangeably in CSS. Why doesn't mozilla? Answer: Retarded.
- Can't Freakin' Edit my Viewed Source! This was really the clincher. I could forgive the CSS stuff above because most of it was due mistakes thanks to my laziness. But I like a browser that will let me be lazy. But the View Source crap is unforgivable. In all other browsers other than IE, you're allowed to view source code for a page but you CANNOT EDIT IT. Even the files on my own computer that I created myself. The way that I edit my pages is I look at them, see what needs to be changed, view the source of the pages, change the code, and then save it and refresh the browser. I can't do that with any other browser other than IE. And it really makes me sad.
posted by Christopher at 10:04 AM
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Saturday, August 02, 2003
Take your X-TREME marketing and shove it.
I kinda just wasted today away. Did a couple loads of laundry. Shaved. Dinked around on this thing called Internet. I spent a lot of the day listening to the They Might Be Giants Clock Radio. Carrie came home around 4:00, which was nice.
I read a funny article called Take your X-TREME marketing and shove it. It's by the guy who makes the Real Ultimate Power website.
I read a funny article called Take your X-TREME marketing and shove it. It's by the guy who makes the Real Ultimate Power website.
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Lots o' Freakin' Films
I had a big, fun day yesterday. Really early in the morning (like at 7:00) Carrie left to go touring around Oregon wine country with Ms. O'Reilly. I never like it when she's gone, but she and Ms. O'Reilly always have a great time when they're together so I figured I could go without her for a day.
I got a call later in the morning from Brandy, who was babysitting the kids. The kids wanted to go see Spy Kids 3-D. Did I want to come? Hell, yeah! So I saw that with Brandy and the kids. Then I came home and did a handful of dishes and fell asleep on the couch. Since Brandy didn't have any other plans for the day, we decided to see yet another movie after she was done taking care of the kids. She came over for dinner (I made beef stir fry), and then we decided to see Pirates of the Caribbean. The next show of it wasn't until like 10:10 at night, though, so we took a walk up 6th Ave and got some ice cream at Baskin & Robins. Geoff met us at the theater for Pirates, and by the time I finally got home and back to bed it was almost 1:00 in the morning. It was a lot of fun.
Then this morning I watched Auto Focus on DVD. So that makes four freakin' films in the span of a week. I'm getting the Reviews up as fast as I can, 'cause I don't want to fall behind again. So I have Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over done so far. You know what's really weird? Three of the four films I saw this week have a colon ( : ) in their titles...
I got a call later in the morning from Brandy, who was babysitting the kids. The kids wanted to go see Spy Kids 3-D. Did I want to come? Hell, yeah! So I saw that with Brandy and the kids. Then I came home and did a handful of dishes and fell asleep on the couch. Since Brandy didn't have any other plans for the day, we decided to see yet another movie after she was done taking care of the kids. She came over for dinner (I made beef stir fry), and then we decided to see Pirates of the Caribbean. The next show of it wasn't until like 10:10 at night, though, so we took a walk up 6th Ave and got some ice cream at Baskin & Robins. Geoff met us at the theater for Pirates, and by the time I finally got home and back to bed it was almost 1:00 in the morning. It was a lot of fun.
Then this morning I watched Auto Focus on DVD. So that makes four freakin' films in the span of a week. I'm getting the Reviews up as fast as I can, 'cause I don't want to fall behind again. So I have Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over done so far. You know what's really weird? Three of the four films I saw this week have a colon ( : ) in their titles...
posted by Christopher at 12:58 PM
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