Category: Blogging

  • Well, that’s a sucky way to start the day…

    So on my way to work this morning, I got into a car accident. One of three cars involved! Westbound on Franklin, just past the light on Third, and the first car stopped for the construction they’ve got going on, and the car in front of me rear-ended the first car, stopping up short, and I had to hit my brakes—but still rear-ended the second car. A three car pile-up. Sort of.

    Anyway, I’m fine, no injuries, just smashed up the front of our Honda Odyssey real good (but the engine seems to be fine, so that’s good). The other two drivers are fine, too, so everybody came out of it shaken but unscathed.

    Yep, it all sucks. The car is at the shop now, waiting for a damage estimate, and I’m dealing with insurance and paperwork and all that fun stuff.

    What I find amusing, is everyone’s reaction: first is the natural, “Are you okay?” question; that’s been followed up with, “It wasn’t the new car, was it?”

    (No, it was the older car.)

  • Not much

    No, I haven’t posted much on any of my sites this week. My aunt died on Monday, and I just haven’t felt like writing much. There’s really not any more to say; the funeral is on Saturday. In the meantime, I hope everyone’s having a good week, what with the first day of summer and the hot weather and all.

  • An angry bunch

    Go and check out today’s Pearls Before Swine comic strip. It’s the good stuff.

    Pearls Before Swine for 6/16/06

  • So can you hear the ringtone?

    So can you hear this ringtone? It’s supposed to be too high-pitched in frequency for the ears of people over 30 to hear… but I can hear it. It’s via Shannon, who seems to be alternating between thinking she’s too old to hear it, or she’s just been exposed to too much loud music over the years.

    …she also wants me to use this quote for her quote of the week: “next thing ya know, i’ll be wearing depends and drooling.” I don’t know, that seems too easy to me. We’ll see.

  • 6-6-06

    The sixth day of the sixth month of…

    Yeah, are we really doing this?

    I got nothin’.

  • Shannon’s silver bullet (quote of the week!)

    Jeez, come back from vacation to find Shannon’s latest post:

    “some gal on myspace.com contacted me. offered me a free silver bullet. how could i refuse?”

    You’ll have to go read the entire post for context…

    I just hope Shannon doesn’t think the silver bullet refers to Coors Light…

  • Offline for Memorial Day

    Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ll be offline for the Memorial Day weekend—through Tuesday, actually. Hopefully everyone has a safe and fun holiday weekend!

  • One billion seconds

    There was a site I found the other day (and have subsequently forgotten what it was) that prompted you to enter your birthdate, and it would present you with various facts about your age. You know, what year in the Chinese calendar it was when you were born, what your astrological sign is, etc. etc. One thing resonated with me, though, and it was in the alternative time measurements of age (number of days old, and months, and weeks, like that): the number of seconds old.

    Obviously it’s an estimate, but the realization that I am more than one billion seconds old kind of brought me up short. On my 33rd birthday five months ago I was (approximately) 1,040,688,000 seconds old.

    Put another way, I suppose I could say I’m 1.04 gigaseconds old…

  • Shannon’s quote this week

    I had to wait a bit, but Shannon’s got another quote of the week: “i think i need some higher goals in life like buying a house or putting money away for retirement but for now, i just want to be a dancing bunny.”

  • My new blog launch: Hack Bend

    I had hinted a while back about a new project I was starting, and I think it’s time to launch and announce it. It’s a new blog called Hack Bend, and it’s purpose is to be an insider’s guide to Bend and Central Oregon. (In fact, the tagline I have on it right now is “Getting the most out of Bend and Central Oregon.” Original, no?)

    There’s always a bit of trepidation in announcing something like this, but I’m excited about it. I’ve got a bunch of ideas and things to write about already, but as I wrote on the About page, “obviously, I can’t claim to have all the answers or know everything there is to know about the area.” One of the things I’m considering is opening it up to multiple authors, making it a group blog—but that would be down the road sometime. In the meantime, anyone who has any hints, advice, stories, or hacks about the area, please let me know! I’d like to make this a definitive website about Bend, and the more contributions I get, the more likely that’ll happen.

    So pop on over and check things out, subscribe to the RSS feed, and become a regular contributor. And let me know what you think!