By writing this I am likely going to jinx myself and end up with a ticket sometime soon.  I made it back from Elizabethtown, NC in three and a quarter hours.  I think I averaged 80 mph.  I haven’t had a drive like that in a while.  Oakenfold in my ears, the blur of tail [...]

Thanksgiving was a good break.  Spent some time with the in-laws in Colorado Springs.  Playing cards and Settlers of Catan with the whole set I recently purchased.  Knights & Cities is a great addition to the game and made for many long and close games.  I wasn’t able to pull off a win but it [...]

After what I consider to be a short run of about five years my car is dead.  Not completely dead but it needs enough repairs that it is not worth keeping.  It will still run ok for a few weeks or perhaps months before the transmission finally gives out and leaks transmission fluid all over [...]

Travel hell – what a farce. I rush to BWI – where I haven’t had the best experiences – and it’s empty.  No lines at security despite the maze they’d setup. A new X-ray machine that can actually see through laptops and fluids – amazing.  About damn time.  A news crew just inside the doors – [...]

Many of my neighbors have dogs.  I see them walking their dogs all the time, holding the bag of poo in their right hand and the leash in the left.  Rich people.  They drive BMWs and Audis.  They have thousand-dollar suits and matching shoes.  And clear bags of poo in their right hands.  I love [...]

One hundred thousand.  The Red Eye made it to 100k.  I’m only responsible for sixty-thousand of those miles.  Blew Cheese made it to around one-fifty before she died outside BWI airport.  In a few days I will again leave my car at BWI airport while I travel and I can only hope that the same [...]

I love seeing this on my paystub every year:
EFFECTIVE THIS PAY PERIOD YOU HAVE SATISFIED THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX LIMIT.
Wahoo!

Amazon had a good deal on the whole Settlers of Catan set last week so today I got the original game, the five player expansion, the Seafarers expansion, the five player Seafarers expansion, and the Cities & Knights and five player expansion.  That’s alot of freaking Catan. 
 We’re going out to the in-laws for Thanksgiving and [...]

I spent the weekend cleaning out my DVR – Prison Break, Journeyman, Bionic Woman and Chuck.  In the blur of images I noticed a number of ‘easter eggs’ in Bionic Woman.  First off, Katie Sackoff and Mark Shepard are both on the show.  On the Paradise Lost episode Jamie and Ruth walk into a house with the [...]