I was up at about 7:30 Saturday morning and sat on the couch to read until Norm and Vicky got up. I heard their alarm go off at 8:30 and as soon as it went off, I could hear Vicky in a panic. She later explained that she forgot it was Saturday and thought she…
Friday the Thirteenth turned out to be a very nice day. I picked up my rental car after work and headed up to Nanuet, New York. I was given a Honda Accord, which was nice, but it took a while to do the paperwork because Hertz’s computer systems were down. Regardless, I made very good…
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for months and keep forgetting, but I remembered this morning and so here it is. Every morning, I wake up with a song in my head. I don’t know how it gets there, but there it is. I usually don’t notice it until I’m driving to the train…
So I was going to get up at 4:30 and be into the gym bright and early this morning, but I got to bed a little bit later than planned and decided to sleep in until 5:30 and go to the gym at lunch today. I did get to the gym at lunch, and while…
I ran out of time to post my workout from yesterday, but I did indeed go and workout after work yesterday. It was Wednesday and that’s a cardio day and I managed to get in a full cardio workout, which felt pretty good. Especially since I almost didn’t go.
I don’t normally check the news first thing in the morning, but when I glanced at Yahoo!’s headlines, I was suddenly saddened with the announcement that Kurt Vonnegut had died at the age of 84. While he is known for his satirical writing and some pretty darn good science fiction, I admired him most for…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEN! That’s right, today is he11o_sunshine‘s birthday. I won’t say how old she is, but I was seven years old when she was born, and I can remember the day as if it were yesterday. First, we were woken up early in the morning and taken to a neighbor’s house so that my…
When I got home from work this evening (at 6:40 PM because I went to the gym after work), I found at my door step a shipment from Powell’s containing Will and Ariel Durant’s The Age of Napoleon. It is the final volume, #11, in their famous STORY OF CIVILIZATION series and it completes my…
This weeks theme in Anu Garg’s (wordsmith.org) A.Word.A.Day mailing list is words that seem risque. Today’s word was “vomitorium” and for some reason, the word reminded me of strausmouse. It sounds risque, but would you believe that a vomitorium is actually: A passageway to the rows of seats in a theater. It comes from the…
I did get sleep last night. I was in bed at 8 PM, when it was still light out. I turned out the light at 8:20 and I was out. I woke up bleary-eyed to my alarm at 4:20 AM. I was still groggy enough when I got into the office at 5:40 than I…