Well, I'll be darned if it hasn't been the best one in awhile - certainly the best in the past 3 or 4. It's been wierd watching the various things that have been stripped from me in life slowly returning, one by one. And, getting even more, to boot.
Lots of stuff planned for '05 -- look for a marriage, a new move, a new career direction, and of course, as much martial arts training as I can cram...
Friday, December 31, 2004
Thursday, December 30, 2004
'Law & Order' star Jerry Orbach dies
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Tony Brown
Plain Dealer Theater Critic
Try to remember the kind of September when Lennie Briscoe was a romantic fellow. And if you remember, then sorrow. Sorrow, sorrow, sorrow.
Actor Jerry Orbach, a romantic leading man in Broadway musicals for more than two decades before becoming a TV icon as sardonic investigator Briscoe on...
The author of this message board post made this statement regarding the age-old debate on Empty Hand Defenses vs. Weapons:Also, most people create an image of having to fight a super hero on acid or Dan Inosanto. Most people you will come across don’t train, are drugged or drunk with dulled senses and are basically average people. Please train for overkill, but realise what you are most likely to...
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Here are some things I would have taken pictures of, had I a camera, and would have uploaded by now had that camera been digital:Every sign in Elmira, NY that E and I drove past that had any reference to Mark Twain.
The two front lawns we drove past that had deflated Christmas balloon-figures. It was a pretty ghastly looking scene.
That demonic "scary tire guy" that's on a sign a little ways south...
Monday, December 27, 2004
Christmas was nice at Ma's house (Henceforth, my mom is “Mom” and E's mom is “Ma.”), even though I've been denied watching "24 Hours of A Christmas Story" and managed to leave my copy of Chicago XXV (Full of Christmas music -- XXV, get it?) in Cleveland. There was no shortage of Christmas music here, though (i.e. 20 versions of the same 10 songs).
It might have been as much as I wanted, but I got...
Friday, December 24, 2004
About noon yesterday, E and I rolled into "Mark Twain Country" to spend Christmas with her mother. The first thing we did was sleep out of sheer exhaustion. We were up at the butt-crack o' dawn and made it here about 12:30 pm.
After all the naps, we had some food, lots of coffee and a game of Scrabble which I won because I had the rare fortune of using all of my tiles in one play. Now, I'll get...
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Tomorrow is going to be a fun drive. I called the folks earlier and gave them a false departure time, 90 minutes after we'll actually leave so that they won't get all jumpy. I think I inadvertently gave them an arrival time that was later than it should have, but it's all good.
Not sure how blogging's going to be, but I'm sure I'll make it on at some point.
Next post will be from somewhere other...
Tomorrow, I'll be on the road, so I'll have to do this now. I have to say that this test adequately reflects my state of mind.
You scored as Pissed at the World Cat. And here we have the next serial killer. Try having some cotton candy, it'll make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, Psycho.Pissed at the World...
Why do I relish the thought of moving to Ithaca, NY? Because as long as polls like this are being conducted there, I know that chances are, the place is liberal enough to have people that won't try to lynch me once the first stupid Filipino - whoever that might be - does something stupid and blows something up.Fear factor: 44 percent of Americans queried in Cornell national poll favor curtailing...
Monday, December 20, 2004
I had to stop at the nearest wireless hotspot... well, not quite the nearest, but the one that serves my favorite coffee, so that I could transfer some money into my checking account. Yeah, I know, I shouldn't be doing things like that over a wireless connection, but it's not like there's a lot in there for anyone to take, anyway.
Anyway, once I finish my coffee, off I'll go -- I just hope the things...
Saturday, December 18, 2004
At least for the next hour or so. The downside to getting the time off that I need for E and I to spend X-mas with family is the fact that the Diamond Mine crammed my shifts together between this week and the next schedule-week, so that today will be day 3 of 7 in a row, all 8 hours/day at varying start times, which preclude any chance of biorhythmic balance. Add to that the fact that once that...
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Monday, December 13, 2004
BWAH-hahahahahaha.... snicker... snicker... BWAHHHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Van Damme is a ‘superhero’
Jean Claude van Damme has described himself as a “superhero in bed” who performs for his wife every night.
The star, who is in the Romanian capital Bucharest looking at locations for his next film, said that although he kept to a punishing three hour fitness regime every day, he was never tired when it...
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Not that rough, although it does show my age when getting up after staying out until 2:30 a.m. after an evening of marguaritas, beer, and greasy food is a bit difficult. No hangover, though, and I had more greasy food for breakfast.
It reminds me of a discussion I had with someone at the Diamond Mines lately as we reminisced about life north of Columbus. She remembered breakfasts of bacon and...
...but I'm glad I missed out on the sniper and stuff like this:Seminal Guitarist, 4 Others Die in Ohio Shooting
Thu Dec 9, 2004 02:04 PM ET
By Jim Leckrone
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A man charged on stage and opened fire at a heavy metal band and fans at a crowded bar, killing four people and wounding two others before being killed by police, officials said on Thursday.
Among the dead was "Dimebag"...
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
No blogging, or anything else, for the past five days because I've been almost completely immersed in the Diamond Mines. But, I've got two days to look at this thing called daylight, and in the few hours I've been awake and online, have I got some stuff..
ITEM ONE
The teaser for the new Doctor Who series -- F**k yeah!
ITEM TWO
More controversial self-defense issues...
The Debate over Tasers and...
Friday, December 03, 2004
This is related to a rant on self-defense that I posted recently, linked here for my convenience. It's a thread from the message boards on the Defend.net forums about the "legitimacy" of Sayoc Kali. It doesn't get good until about the fourth post where the thread-starter makes the assertion:1. As far as the Sayoc training being like firearms training, I disagree for two fundamental reasons. First,...
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
My cousin (sort of) and her new husband.
This is a shot of the wedding that E and I attended a couple of weeks ago. This whole scene was part of what made E so nervous because not only was it a "church wedding," it was a Filipino wedding, and on top of that, it was done old-school Filipino style. For...
What do you do when your fiance is on a 7 day cleansing fast and she's jonesing for a pizza on the second day?
You rent the movie Supersize Me to remind her why she's doing this in the first place -- it worked better than I could have possibly imagined! Check it out. The movie got play at Sundance for a reas...
Thanks to my old friend FATHER_FRO, I guestimate that I've increased the value of my new computer at least 1.5 times, thanks to some more nifty new programs that he managed to find from... somewhere... and burn onto a DVD-R for me. There's easily a grand worth of programs on that thing, but I only needed two of them. Hey, E's going to need a video editor one day, and who knows, I may get tired of...
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