Aren’t you fortunate to have a portal into the nooks and crannies of my day to day life? It’s an honor, I’m sure. In any case, here’s one more minutiae: my tooth hurts.
Carrying on in fine American tradition I have long put off taking advantage of western preventative dentistry, and now the piper must be paid. What vile organisms festering in my mouth have bored through enamel and bone to…
O.K. mister, hold it right there! I want you to give me all of your carbs! Everybody just stay calm and no one will get hurt. HEY! Keep your hands away from those bun-less burgers! I said I want CARBS! I’m running out of energy here so hurry it up! You people and your weird diets, you wanna lose weight? I’ve got a diet for ya. We’ll call it the “lube job” diet. Just replace every other…
For the first time in the playoffs this season, I didn’t watch the end of the Lightning game last night. By the end of the second period it took monumental effort to continue watching. I imagine it felt a lot like being a hockey player’s dentist. It was really discouraging.
Yes, last night’s game was an old fashioned whoopin’, and the Lightning players were not the ones holding the whip. I…
The ground is particularly good at equal and opposite reactions, but we usually don’t need Newton to tell us that.
Perhaps more important are Newton’s other laws of motion. If you are sitting on the roof with your legs hanging over the gutter and you use your arms to push off so that you clear the gutter, the force of your push acts on your shoulders, above your center of gravity. This creates…
It would be so easy. My eyes want it so much. I could just let them close for a moment. Oh yeah, that’s it. Just for a few minutes. It feels so right to let them close. Every limb feels so heavy. Every movement seems to take three times the effort as normal.
Can’t I just sit here and rest for a moment? Maybe doze off for a few moments? Even sitting up in a desk chair, sitting motionless with…
Recent history has ushered in more than its share of mood altering drugs for children. However, kids and their moods are no exception. If you can name a disorder your local pharmacist can name a couple of cures in a bottle, with an optional safety cap. There is one mood altering drug that has been with us for centuries. I am talking about sugar.
Who among the parents of the world have not sugared…
I have a bad memory. There are things that I have in place to overcome this failing, but like all things human they are not perfect. There is a certain couple that will be celebrating a wedding aniversary tomorrow, number four if I’m not mistaken. I offer this entry as an incredibly lame substitute for what will surely turn out to be another failure of my memory tomorrow. I could call, but I…
In the end, it was a good trip. Per usual, I was nervous being the outsider on that first day (as I’ve already explained). Some of my first impressions were not as good as I had hoped, but in hindsight I can’t discount the fact that my somewhat aloof manner contributed.
The second day left me with much more favorable impressions. During the discussions I overcame my fear of speaking up, and…