Thursday, September 17th, 2009
by Jeff
I hope @scarlettraces is ready for some new followers. Red Hood’s Robin-like sidekick tweeted what she was doing, which just so happened to be murdering.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
by Jeff
Just some randoms from today
I woke up grumpy with a headache and sinus congestion. It cleared up after a while. Fresh air at night would help, but the bedroom only has one window in which the air conditioner sits at the moment. A major design flaw when this house was built as the bedroom is on the corner and could easily have another window on another wall.
I could pull the AC out, but as soon as I do we’ll have a 90 degree night and I’ll have to put that sucker back in.
I’ve been tired of going to parties and get togethers and not drinking with everyone because I don’t like beer. Everyone says it’s an acquired taste but until recently I haven’t acquired it.
Over vacation I tried Bud Light with Lime and it actually isn’t bad. Sure it may not be a manly beer, but it beats a Mike’s Hard Lemonade and is much cheaper than mixed drinks. I know I could also try Corona with Lime, but I’m too lazy to keep fresh limes and cut them up. I wonder why the lime only comes in Bud Light?
I went to Zimmie’s comics in Lewiston today, and wasn’t as impressed as I had hoped. I never like asking for things in stores. I figure if it’s not in plain site and easy to find, you’re not doing a good job displaying your wares. Beside I enjoy browsing before I find what I came for.
I went to pick up Superman #679 and Star Trek Year Four: Enterprise Experiment #5 that were both released today. I found neither on their new release rack, but saw others I knew had been released today. I’m guessing you have to reserve to be sure to get your copy the day of release. I’ll just grab them next week at Casablanca Comics in Portland.
I did pick up a couple of back issues of other books that looked interesting, and I did learn a lot overhearing a discussion on the theory of 20 sided dice and using them in various role playing games. This guy talked about it the whole time I was there. I may be a geek, but he really should go find a date.
My father-in-law had his new souped up truck on display tonight at Cruise Night at the local ice cream stand here in Lisbon. Not only can you take my man card away for drinking Bud Light Lime, but also for not enjoying looking at cars with their hoods up. I did see a 1970 something Dodge Dart there that reminded me of my mother’s car that my grandfather warned her was just too much muscle for her. She wanted it though, and drove her two young kids around town in it proud as can be.
She sold it to a friend of the family to get a more practical station wagon, and he still has it. She got to drive it one last time before she passed away, and she loved it.
My wife goes back to work tomorrow after summer vacation. (Summer vacation because it’s in the summer, and because that’s her name) I’ll be spending the day alone with Jake and I’m planning to take him out in the morning to Danville Junction in Auburn near the railroad yard. Hopefully there’ll be some activity there for us to watch. I think we’ll both be just as excited.
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
by Jeff
Since others are attempting to do it, I figured I’d do the same and blog each day of my vacation. If nothing else I can always look back at the end and see how much of my vacation I wasted. Today was a good start.
I woke up at 10am which is so much nicer than waking up at 3:30am and hitting the snooze alarm three times. My wife and son had left early to meet some friends at a petting zoo. Since I have pet one too many animals in my day, I stayed home.
I brought a load of laundry downstairs to be done, but I always have a hard time remembering to go back down to put it in the dryer. I never understood why dryers have buzzers but washers don’t seem to. At least none I’ve ever used.
To solve the problem of the laundry switch, I sat down at my desktop which is also in the basement, and decided to enter in the codes from the six Ziploc bags of Pepsi bottle caps that Anita from the office has been collecting for me. You enter them on pepsistuff.com and you can get a free song on
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for every five caps. 154 caps later, I had enough points in the bank for about 40 songs, and the washer was done.
For the remainder of the day, in between helping get my son fed and keeping him from rolling blueberries off the entertainment center and into the baseboard heaters, I read comic books.
I used to read comic books as a kid right through college. It wasn’t until college that I realized that these things might be worth something some day, and started saving them instead of throwing them in the landfill. I still have several boxes of 15+ year old comics somewhere in the basement that at last check aren’t worth any more than the cover price, which back then was $1 or less. I stopped reading when the price went over a dollar, and to follow a story arc you had to buy multiple series since the comic industry realized they’d make more money by doing crossovers.
After seeing The Dark Knight though I had to get back into it and now am reading every Batman and Superman book I can get my hands on. I’m also catching up on old story arcs in trade paperbacks that collect all the comics in the arc into one handy book.
Which brings me to 1am on what is technically day two of my vacation. I’ll read one more and then go to bed I suppose. Batgirl just showed up in No Man’s Land, but Batgirl was retired (actually shot and paralyzed by The Joker) years ago, so who is this?!?! Must find out.
Tomorrow’s agenda? I need to start flattening a bunch of boxes in the basement for recycling, do some major yard work since part of the house looks like a jungle, make a trip to Zimmie’s in downtown Lewiston for the first time to get more comics, and of course read said comics.
Vacations can be hard work when you’re a geek.
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