Catching Up
After a few days off, here are a few quick items that weren't significant enough for posts of their own:
Real estate porn: I'm starting to really enjoy this whole buying real estate thing. Every Sunday I try to hit up a few open houses to see what's out there, and it's fun to see the nice kitchens and views and cleaned up bathrooms and stuff. Equally fun (though also frustrating) is seeing the places that sound nice and are photographed well, but in actuality are dumps. Who are they kidding?? And then there are the places I walk into off the street because there's an "open house" sign out front, only to find it's way out of my price range. Ha! Either way, it's all good and worth seeing just for comparison. And one day, one of these nice kitchens will be mine. Then, I suppose, I'll have to cook. But first things first.
All junk: I'd like to spend, like, two minutes in the mind of a spammer. What good is it to send out all your messages for discounted software and "enhancement" drugs and all that other crap on a holiday weekend, when it'll just get lost amongst all the other junk emails of the sort? I got close to 100 of these messages in my work email box between Friday and Monday morning. And I moved them all into the trash.
In their place: I'm so far away from being married that sometimes I can only look at my married or engaged friends and laugh at some of the things they do. Like when my engaged friends register for "silly" stuff I know they'll never use. For example, one of my friends registered for, like, 20 bjillion placemats. And not just the same kind, but, like, six of one kind, a dozen of another, and 15 of another. How many times has this couple eaten dinner together at home recently? Let's just say that everytime I call them at 5:00 (the time they say they're eating dinner) they're not home. And I know this friend will enjoy that I'm making fun of him publicly. Still, I look forward to the day when he tells me the dinner placemats actually got used.
No Dice: Halfway through the season and I'm still not impressed with Dice-K. He lost again on Sunday. Six runs and 10 hits in five innings. That's no ace. As for the whole team, I'll worry about them when the second place team (be it Toronto or the Yankees) make it within five games. Until then, much as I'd rather they be dominating everyone, I can't get upset that they lost the series this weekend. The season's on cruise control.
Wild thing: I'm really looking forward to the movie adaptation of Into the Wild, which is a book I've actually read. Granted, it was a few years ago, but I remember really liking it, and the film's trailer looks really promising. Speaking of which, I expect to have finished Cabin Pressure by week's end (only 25 pages to go). That'll be the second book I've read in three months. (That's right, two books in three months. Go me!) Next on the reading list: The Year of Living Biblically, by A.J. Jacobs. It's not out till October, but A.J. himself sent me an advance copy (with a personal note and everything) because I interviewed him a few years back to promote his last book. Yaaaaaay, A.J.!
Real estate porn: I'm starting to really enjoy this whole buying real estate thing. Every Sunday I try to hit up a few open houses to see what's out there, and it's fun to see the nice kitchens and views and cleaned up bathrooms and stuff. Equally fun (though also frustrating) is seeing the places that sound nice and are photographed well, but in actuality are dumps. Who are they kidding?? And then there are the places I walk into off the street because there's an "open house" sign out front, only to find it's way out of my price range. Ha! Either way, it's all good and worth seeing just for comparison. And one day, one of these nice kitchens will be mine. Then, I suppose, I'll have to cook. But first things first.
All junk: I'd like to spend, like, two minutes in the mind of a spammer. What good is it to send out all your messages for discounted software and "enhancement" drugs and all that other crap on a holiday weekend, when it'll just get lost amongst all the other junk emails of the sort? I got close to 100 of these messages in my work email box between Friday and Monday morning. And I moved them all into the trash.
In their place: I'm so far away from being married that sometimes I can only look at my married or engaged friends and laugh at some of the things they do. Like when my engaged friends register for "silly" stuff I know they'll never use. For example, one of my friends registered for, like, 20 bjillion placemats. And not just the same kind, but, like, six of one kind, a dozen of another, and 15 of another. How many times has this couple eaten dinner together at home recently? Let's just say that everytime I call them at 5:00 (the time they say they're eating dinner) they're not home. And I know this friend will enjoy that I'm making fun of him publicly. Still, I look forward to the day when he tells me the dinner placemats actually got used.
No Dice: Halfway through the season and I'm still not impressed with Dice-K. He lost again on Sunday. Six runs and 10 hits in five innings. That's no ace. As for the whole team, I'll worry about them when the second place team (be it Toronto or the Yankees) make it within five games. Until then, much as I'd rather they be dominating everyone, I can't get upset that they lost the series this weekend. The season's on cruise control.
Wild thing: I'm really looking forward to the movie adaptation of Into the Wild, which is a book I've actually read. Granted, it was a few years ago, but I remember really liking it, and the film's trailer looks really promising. Speaking of which, I expect to have finished Cabin Pressure by week's end (only 25 pages to go). That'll be the second book I've read in three months. (That's right, two books in three months. Go me!) Next on the reading list: The Year of Living Biblically, by A.J. Jacobs. It's not out till October, but A.J. himself sent me an advance copy (with a personal note and everything) because I interviewed him a few years back to promote his last book. Yaaaaaay, A.J.!
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