CARROT!!!1

This is a carrot we grew in our garden. We created it (well, gave it an earthy home to grow in), and then we ate it!

old & frail

i'm 10 days from living 28 years. for 27 years I had very few ailments or injuries. a few broken bones, a few sinus infections, a couple of upset stomachs, and a teenage bout with acne. but not much more than that.

over this last year i've realized my body is getting old and falling apart. back problems - my own fault through incorrect posture, the worst twelve hours of my life - from the toilets point-of-view anyway, and now my ears.

it started as swimmer's ear, a day before I began swimming. as of now, three weeks later, the swimmer's ear has passed but some sort of fluid (why the h is there even fluid back there?) won't drain from behind my ears. this doesn't hurt, but I can only barely hear in my right ear and my left ear comes and goes.

this has put an indefinite hold on learning to dive. but it has also made me consider that this may be the turning point. perhaps it is my time to grow old. pain-pills, soreness-ointment, wrinkles-moisturizer - bring it all on. this next year, year number 29, I am going to have to fight hard to stay this young.

I think I need a haircut.

ima idiot

Funny story...

This morning I got out of the shower and after turning off the water I heard a weird noise that I had never heard before and that sounded to me like a fan blowing. I checked the bathroom fan and it wasn't on, but the noise was pretty loud. I looked out multiple windows to see if the neighbor was weed-eating, but they weren't. And I noticed that the further from the shower I got the less I heard it. I checked upstairs and outside and saw nothing unusual.

I told Rohini about it and she couldn't figure it out either so we called her dad and he came over. After he inspected it we concluded that it was coming from within the thin wall that separates the shower stall and the bath tub. We thought there must be some pipe in there that is messed up and is vibrating or something and somehow creating this noise.

I then got a chair and stuck it in the shower to check the light above it. I realized that the pipe coming from the wall to the shower head was vibrating and the sound would fluctuate as I shook it. So I removed the shower caddy that holds the multitudes of shampoos and conditioners and soap and what-not off the pipe coming from the wall and handed it to Rohini. As I did this I noted that the pipe had stopped vibrating and she noted that the shower caddy was still vibrating. What the H? We looked again and realized the razor I use, the Mach 3 Power, which is a normal razor but vibrates, was on the shower caddy. So, apparently, when I finished using it this morning in the shower I placed it on the shower caddy but failed to successfully turn it off.

It took us about 30 minutes to figure all this out and that silly little razor was so loud and it shook all the pipes in the wall so much that you could hear them when you stuck your ear to it. Crazy, huh? But really, its a good razor, you should try it, here's the link to it...
Gillette M3Power

maid in america

list of things i did today...

1. change cat litter
2. sweep laundry room
   
3. wash dishes
4. clean kitchen counters
5. sweep kitchen floor
6. mop kitchen floor
7. sweep kitchen floor again where jonze knocked down the plant and dumped dirt everywhere
8. clean automatic pet bowl
   
9. mop kitchen floor again where i spilled lots of water trying to carry automatic pet bowl full of water
10. pick up every dog/cat toy from the floor (i'm sure they're all back out by now)
    
11. vacuum 2 living areas, dining area, and bedroom
12. take out trash and recycling (not part of foreplay, but still very important)

i need a raise.

mal likes ice cream

hi mal, i found this photo and concluded that you like ice cream. i also figured you'd like me to publicly post it so everyone else knows, too. so, here yeah go. :D

HAIRCUT

I gave in. I got a haircut - by a professional. Well, kinda. It was SportsClips. She did a pretty decent job on it I think. Way better than that old dude in the mens barber shop in Plano. Here's some pics to check out. And one of Jonze too, cuz why the H not?

Weekend in Galveston/Houston

Well, we all seemed to have lotsa fun this last weekend in Galveston, or as I like to type it, Glaveston. That keeps our record of seeing each other every weekend intact for a little while longer. The sea certainly has made Mal more surly than ever - or I just forget easily. But it was all in good fun and I can't wait to go back.

The trip back has been extremely long and I am still tired from it all. It started at 3:30 this morning when Ruth and I left TAMUG in the dead of the night. All was well the first four-and-a-half hours. The highway wasn't even closed at NASA Rd 1 like we anticipated. Then around 8am we encroach upon the outskirts of Big D. The weather was clear up to this point, but there were giant thunderstorms parked right over the entire metroplex.

We cautiously stuttered our way into the downtown district before we decided to exit and the Harry Hines out to Parkland. Good thing we rented a pickup truck because all the low water crossings we waded through would have killed any compact car - actually we saw alot of small cars driving through these and I thought they were crazy, I'd never attempt that. We eventually arrived safely at Parkland just shy of ten o'clock.

Then I headed back to Plano to drop off the rental truck and pick up my car from the mechanics. That all went pretty smoothly, even the remaining low water crossings on Harry Hines. The weird thing was when the Enterprise guys dropped me off at the mechanics they sent four (4) guys with me in that truck. I don't know why they did that because they were all so squished in there.

Anyways, after all that I picked up some Wendy's drive-thru and went in to work a few minutes after noon. At about 12:44 (according the time on my Mac) I got hit with a HUGE wave of drowsiness. I was so tired, but I plunged on. Two things that helped me through my day: a cupcake, and a piece of cake. Luckily there were two birthdays today and I got a double dose of afternoon sugar (sounds kinky, I know - its not).

I decided to take off just a tad bit early to make sure I made it to my appointment with Dr. Jones on time. Of course, anytime you try this you'll be extremely early. There is never any real way to judge how long it will take to get to Uptown. But it worked out, I was outta there before I was even supposed to be there. And that just meant I get an hour of rush hour traffic sooner.

Now I'm home. I've eaten. I've checked my email. I haven't unpacked or done laundry, but those will probably just have to wait till tomorrow. I think its time to vegetate on the couch till I pass out (prob 3.5 min) and then when I wake up in confusion I'll stagger into bed and start the whole process all over again.

G'nite.