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not fade away

April 28, 2009 in Personal by Ben | Comments closed

I’m a little disconnected at the moment, so this entry reflects my mentality.

I’ve had a blast watching Twitter go nuts about Swine Flu. I didn’t create it, but I’ve had fun using the term twisteria to describe the process. Also? tagging items with captaintrips is more fun than the boring old ‘swine flu.’

I finally watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Perhaps it was the wine, but did they really manage to make the idea of sex with Penelope and Scarlett seem boring?

My son called me an idiot this morning because I asked him to put on his shoes. I think he has issues with authority.

I changed my banner. I’ll give you a guess why. Hint: it’s been too long.

We’ve actually seen some rain lately. Which is good.

Bob Marley makes most things better.

See?

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So, whatcha been doin?

June 16, 2008 in Fat Guy, Personal by Some Guy | 1 comment

I’m sorry, internets. I’m not neglecting you on purpose.

I’d love to pretend that I’ve been so busy being a Rock Star that I haven’t had time to blog. I’ve had time. It’s not me, it’s me. I just don’t feel like oversharing as much as I used to.

Here’s a little snippet of what’s been going on:

We sold my wife’s mom’s house. Yay! We have that behind us, after six months of fretting and working on things. We’ve learned some stuff. We hate the housing market right now (there are so many foreclosures and people trying to sell that – hell, just read a paper. It sucks) Still, it’s done.

We closed on it, and it took maybe ten minutes. There was also a four hour drive (each way) to make this happen. But the kids saw their grandparents (it’s been too long) and Dad (that would be me) tried hard not to piss everyone off (it sorta worked, for a while).

Father’s Day was low key; the way I like it. We had cupcakes, everyone went swimming, we watched geeky science shows on TV, my family cooked me a steak dinner. Pretty awesome, yes?

I’m still running; I have 23 miles so far in June, including three four mile runs. The heat is kicking my ass. Actually, it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. It was 77 this morning with a dew point of
76 or so. Yeah. But get this – I think I saw a fox this morning. Ran across the road about twenty yards in front of me, and it was pretty light out. Very slender, dog shaped, but with a bushy tail
that was almost as long as it’s body, very fast.

(disclaimer: this was toward the end of my run, so a pink girraffe on a cell phone wouldn’t have surprsised me at this point)

I’m alarmed by oil prices as much as anyone, I guess, but there isn’t a damn thing I can do about it, so I’m trying not to lose any sleep. Just watch with me while our economy follows our environment right into the crapper. Sorry, kids, we enjoyed fucking your planet up for you, maybe some of you are smart enough to recover from our mistakes.

Whew, I’m such a happy little bastard! Sorry about that. (I keep saying “sorry” and can’t seem to quit, and I think it’s driving my wife nuts, because she comments on it. Not sure what to do about it,
though. Oh, another thing that drives her nuts? That I’m ‘addicted to movies.’ Another thing I can’t seem to get out of my system. It could be whores and drugs, though, so maybe it’s not such a bad vice? And what’s with the parenthesis? Dayum.)

This is going downhill, fast, so I better just quit. Have a nice one.

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Always on my mind

May 20, 2008 in Personal by Ben | 1 comment

You ever get something in your head, and unless you tell somebody or write it down, it won’t go away?

Me, too.

So I’m writing these things down so they can go away:

She teaches anatomy. Get it?

1) I so want this shirt for my wife:

2) I don’t like sellers on Ebay who won’t leave feedback unless you, the buyer, leave them feedback first. I won your auction, I payed your overpriced shipping and handling charges, why don’t you acknowledge it?

2a) I leave feedback regardless, because it’s the right thing to do.

C) I think these are the best grapes I’ve had in ages.

4) To celebrate 21 years of wedded bliss my wife and I are taking our boys to see Indiana Jones. Insert age jokes here. I saw the original Indiana Jones with a different girlfriend, I think, who dumped me unceremoniously shortly afterward. I wonder if she’s been married as long as we have? P

5) I ran 5K this morning, under a full moon.

I feel better, now.

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not a moment too soon

January 25, 2008 in Fat Guy by Ben | 1 comment

Got this from Hal Higdon’s web site (I’m following his Spring Training plan).

A lot of people play at running, going out for an occasional run on weekends if the weather is good. Sometimes they’ll run three or four days in a row–then skip several weeks before running again. But that’s not training. Training is when you follow a schedule, such as this one, where each day has a purpose. If the weather is bad, you still run. If you have important business, you simply rise an hour early to run. Why? Because I told you to! And if Hal tells you to rest, you rest. That’s what I have scheduled for you today.

I ran three days in a row this week. Not far, certainly not fast, but I did it. I ran in 39 degree rain. I ran when I was tired. I can do this.

Today, for my “rest,” I’m driving a couple hundred miles, supervising movers, renting a truck and moving other stuff, hopefully meeting with a realtor and perhaps a handyman (or woman), and wrangling three bored children.

Ah, I can feel the stress just melting away…

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Jesus just left Chicago

January 22, 2008 in Personal by Ben | 2 comments

He’s bound for New Orleans..

Sorry, lost in the headphone zone again. I’m trying to block out distractions. For some reason I’m easily distracted. BTW, that’s why the Black Crowes are below this entry; there’s no hidden meaning, it just came on the radio and made me chuckle so there it is.

Todd Snider tells a great story about how some of the best advice he ever received was to never own more shit than you could pack up and move in 15 minutes. Let me tell you, I’ve never met anyone who has actually acomplished this (I can’t speak for Todd, he tells the story but I have no idea if he still follows that advice). I know for a fact that we just spent four days sifting, sorting, and packing stuff; we still aren’t done. What a long fifteen minutes…

And hey, I’ve been busy all day, I just checked and the world is panicking as stocks slump. Oh, now there’s a shock. You can almost hear a dozen Presidential Hopefuls preparing their press conferences about how they are now Expert Economists and have the secret to Fix Everything, but they won’t tell us what it is until after we elect them. And just last week everyone was jumping around saying that giving American’s $1,000 would keep us out of a recession. Yeah, right.

Did anybody watch any football? I saw one play, this weekend I think. The last play of the Giants / Packers game. Damn, that looked cold.

My kids were awesome this weekend. Their dad is the one that needs the work. Really. One more weekend of hell, and we’ll be caught up on the moving front. I hope.

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