Tag Archives: Personal Blather

Last night I was asked some of the stupidest questions that I’ve ever heard… I’d just walked in the front door of the brewpub with a big pink laundry bucket containing an empty keg and a tapper, and the greeter turns to me and says, “Are you returning a keg?”

Pause.

“Well, I hope so. I could take this back to the truck, but it’s a heck of a hike.”
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I’m not entirely sure why, but I’m feeling kinda poorly today. There’s a couple of possible reasons. It could be the combination of rich food, good drink and late hours that have me feeling poorly, or it could be that two of the people we stopped by to visit yesterday are ill now, and were possibly contagious when we saw them.
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Ages ago, one of my friends got the “Beauty and the Beast” soundtrack. One of the songs on there was about the villain, with his comic sidekick providing occasional commentary. I don’t remember the name of the song, the actors, or any of the melody. The only reason that I remember this at all was the one time I heard him play it, there was a cat hair clinging to the CD causing it to skip… The result was a five minute span where we were paralyzed with laughter while the comic sidekick repeated the phrase “More beer?” over and over…

That phrase is no longer funny.
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Why does it cost so much more to eat moderately healthy food? Seriously, this is bugging me. My boss warned me about the pre-wedding “I’ll eat whatever is easiest” fast food munchies that afflicted him when he was getting married, so I’m trying to eat good things. Unfortunately, my efforts are being hampered, to some extent, by the selection around here.
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One of my favorite buildings is gone. It was an old brick apartment building near the medical campus. It probably had terrible problems with old electrical wiring, leaky plumbing, poor ventilation and all sorts of stuff, but it was a neat old place. It had a very 1920’s look to it. The facade was red and yellow brick and it had a red tile roof with ancient green copper gutters. There were all sorts of bizarre little decorative accents in tile and copper on and around the balconies and the windows. For all I know, the place was abandoned and vacant for years. I never knew anyone who lived there, and I never saw any lights on, but the place was oddly beautiful and I’m going to miss seeing it.

Ok, so you all know that my brain is full of wedding plans and all the rest of the pressure that comes from organizing a party for a couple dozen family and friends from out of town… So I haven’t really mentioned that I’m also in the midst of doing Smithee preparation. The U-con Mini-Smithees are a week after the wedding, so, you know… no pressure there…
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I’ve got this recurring tic at the corner of my eye. It’s been happening on and off for about a week now and it’s starting to drive me nuts. I think I could incorporate it into a Halloween costume if I really wanted to. Something along the lines of Herbert Lom’s character from the Pink Panther series of movies.

I’m sure it’s stress related. The wedding is only 9 days away, and we’re in good shape for everything we need, but it’s still a bit stressful. On the other hand, I know there’s someone out there with the firm conviction that all muscle twitches are due to some mineral deficiency, and right now they’re nodding their head and saying “Potassium! That’d cure it. Go eat a banana right now! Go take a look at this web site, that’ll prove that I’m right!”
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Just a bizarre aside before I start posting some of the pics I took over the weekend… My Fiancee and I watched a bit of Stargate SG-1 last night at my sis’s place while working on some origami gift boxes for the wedding reception. And this morning I’m working on a scanned picture of a special guest lecturer.

Trust me, there’s a connection.

Y’see, one of the things you’ve pretty much got to do to most photos is to whiten the teeth and the eyes a bit. It just looks better. The thing is, if you overdo it on the eyes, you get a photo that looks like someone who has just been possessed by a Goa’uld.

Well, yesterday I was as sick as a dog. Or at least as sick as a specific dog that had a level of sickness that matched my own. Headache, sweating, chills and fever. The usual fun stuff. I feel mostly recovered today, but my boss is threatening to send me home.

I’m sorta ok with the idea too. My head feels overinflated, and background noises sound overly resonant. It’s sort of like being on an inflatable raft, floating on a swimming pool. Did you ever just lie there with one ear pressed to the raft and the other full of water? Everything has that sort of muffled echo.
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We don’t need no steenking badgers!

Man, I’ve REALLY got to learn how to do flash animation…