This weekend, Morgan and I attended a birthday party at Celebration Station which, if you’ve not been or don’t have one near you, is essentially a Chuck E. Cheese clone. They have pizza, arcade games, lots of outdoor activities, and animatronic … dogs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1sbt_a9P8Y
(Not my video.)
Below are a few pictures I snapped at the party.
Down the left-hand… read entire post
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Falling Apart
Next month, I will be turning 39-years-old. I was hoping that my body wouldn’t fall apart until the age of 40, but it doesn’t look like that will be the case.
It all started with some weird “finger tremors”. Occasionally, one of my fingers will just start twitching. Whenever they do this, they hurt like I’ve popped my knuckles too… read entire post
Retroist Rewind (07-21-12)
Here’s a recap of the articles I wrote for Retroist.com this past week:
Monday: I mentioned the 25th Anniversary of Madonna’s Who’s That Girl?, both of which were released in June of 1987.
Tuesday: I posted some advice: Never Trust A Rancor, complete with six pictures that (I thought) were funny. Comments ranged from “I loved it!” to “How can… read entire post
Three Changes to the Blog
01. I slightly increased the font size. A combination of (a) longer posts, (b) smaller screens, and (c) my failing eyesight are making the site more difficult to read. The font size is only about 1pt bigger, but I think it makes things more readable.
02. I changed the layout from 3 columns to 2. Everything that was over in… read entire post
Why My Desk Looks Like This
Monday evening after hours I got a call informing me that one of our most important servers at work was offline. I’m not officially “on call” like I used to be years ago, but when something like this happens you throw your shoes back on and go see what’s up.
What was “up” — or technically, what wasn’t “up”, was… read entire post
Eating at Five Guys for Free (My Charmed Life) #FiveGuys #OKC
One night last week while Susan and Mason were in Washington DC, Morgan and I had dinner at Schlotzsky’s. While there, we noticed a sign for a brand new Five Guys Burgers just across the street. “We’ll have to go there with Mommy and Mason next week,” we said. Unbeknownst to us, Susan and Mason actually tried going to a… read entire post
Morgan’s Musical Mysteries
Three random musings from Morgan this week:
01. “I like that song Peaches and Lava.”
I guess I had been listening to 80s music that morning. The song wasn’t “Peaches and Lava.” It was “Egyptian Lover.”
02. “I like that guy, Milli the Willie.”
This one wasn’t too hard to figure out. The only real mystery to this one is,… read entire post
Learning Sign Language
The following sentence was, in the original draft of this post, four paragraphs long. I have replaced those four paragraphs with the following sentence: “they recently changed our custodian at work, and the new one is deaf.”
Most of the custodians at my work are either Hispanic or Asian, some of which speak little English. Just making up numbers, I’d… read entire post
Commodork on the Virtual Shelf
Commodork reader Frank Burcaw recently e-mailed me the following screenshot from his iPad:
I’m not sure how deserving my book is to sit on the same shelf with The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine and Jobs’ biography — even virtually — but I’m tickled nonetheless to see it there.
Thanks again for sending me the picture, Frank! As a reminder, both of… read entire post
Retroist Rewind (7-6-12)
Here’s a recap of the articles I wrote for Retroist.com this past week:
Monday: I featured the Easter Island Tissue Dispenser my Mom found for me at a garage sale.
Tuesday: I compared two sets of drinking glasses from Target, Star Wars vs. Star Trek.
Wednesday: (the 4th of July) I wrote a short tribute to my Dad’s old 1975… read entire post