March 28, 2002
I just spent way too long updating those greymatter templates. Hot damn.
I think this is all functional now. That's far better than when it wasn't working an hour or so ago.
I'm still boring, though. We're working on it.
(I, I, I....)
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March 23, 2002
I need to rip winter off this site.
It'd also be a slight improvement if I updated. Ever. Having nothing to write about from actual life these days, I'll have to make up stories. They may involve headcheese, they may not. But one thing's for sure - I'm losing the webloggers webring, because this isn't a weblog, and it might still be broken.
I need one of those muses, or illicit drugs. I've had a site long enough that it would seem strange not to, but most of my posts seem to center around a lack of anything to write about. I think that means the site is getting a little too bad.
So, changes are in order. Or an official hiatus. I don't know. I'll at least lose the snowman.
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March 19, 2002
The nearest NBC affiliate decided to take off the overnight programming - reruns of Leno and Conan - and replace it with a home shopping network. So now, with ESPN showing truck driving and a sad lack of movies, my overnight tv is pretty craptacular. I'll have to either beat down the people in charge or send them an email expressing my displeasure. Or I'll grumble and do nothing. Definitely one of the three.
I guess I could cast and film some overnight shows for my own personal entertainment, but Mr. T is probably a little more expensive and less available than the Title Loans ads lead one to believe. Alas.
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March 12, 2002
nostalgia + March 12 = my new toy
Feel free to post there, too. Just don't try to chat, because that'll get ugly. I don't have that kind of bandwidth!
Any ex-regulars who know how I can make that look more authentic, give me a yell.
That thing would be five years old now. Amazing.
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March 09, 2002
You know the "Before and After" category on Wheel of Fortune? They'll end up being something like:
COLORADO
RIVER
OF JORDAN
That sort of stuff. Michael and I have come up with a couple of far better ones:
TACO
GRINGO
JONES
Taco Gringo being a somewhat obscure fast food Mexican place, Gringo Jones being an imports shop in St. Louis. It's perfect for challenging the contestants.
Also, of course:
PATRICK
ROY
CAMPANELLA
That one's fun for the contestants, because they get to decide which pronunciation of "ROY" the judges will want.
But aside from the storm and the strawberry cheesecake I had earlier - which, really, is a lot like pie - there isn't much happening lately. And winter is over. It lasted ten days. If it would switch to doing that right around Christmas each winter, I would be a happy camper. Not that I'd go camping, mind you. That would suck enough in warm weather, what with all the bugs and lack of plumbing. I guess there'd be fewer bugs during the winter, but then it's all cold.
The wind is whistling out there. Secure your garbage cans, neighbors.
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March 05, 2002
It's winter!
Actually, winter came a little over a week ago, when we got our first real snow. It was an unimpressive snow, but it covered (most of) the grass and stayed on the ground for more than six hours, so it gets the nod. Snowmans were built around the area, and salt trucks finally got to dump crap all over the streets. The lack of any snow up to this point really made people overreact to the three (or fewer) inches. You would have thought we were in the middle of a week-long blizzard with all the news reports urging us to put together "emergency kits" of blankets and bottled water and high calorie foods in case we were stranded in our cars. It just wasn't that extreme of a storm.
That snow mostly melted in the next couple of days, but winter returned with something of an ice storm over the weekend. Very little snow, but there was a shiny layer of ice over everything and some power outages. Much, much more dangerous than the snow, but it sure didn't keep all of the city from going to dinner at the Texas Roadhouse Saturday night. We thought we could get less than an hour wait at 5:00 PM in the middle of some craptacular weather, but we were wrong.
Yesterday was, thus far, the coldest day of the season. By midweek, we're supposed to be right back up into the fifties. Then, it's looking to get cold again. Up and down, up and down. Winter got really stupid.
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