Accidentally Watching the News
I accidentally heard a couple of things from the news broadcast I left on in the background as I worked on my literature review.
October 2006 Archives
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October 31, 2006
October 30, 2006
Wasting Your Time
I'm bored enough to do surveys. I know, they're a waste of a good blog post. I have nothing important to say, and I'm done with reading shit online. And since I'm laying in our bedroom next to a sleeping Amy and I can't sleep, this is what I'm doing. Deal with it.
Buy Stock in Black
If you know of a company that sells black cloth, perhaps you should buy stock. Amy and I are apparently becoming goth, because we've been thinking about death a lot lately. Not collectively, she just told me about this tonight. And I am in the same boat. I chalk it up to my mom facing a potentially fatal disease, my brother being in a wreck would have killed him in 99.9999999999999% of the alternate universe scenarios, and Amy's grandmother being in a generally bad way. Combine that with the change of the seasons, the dying of the plantlife and the ridiculously short days courtesy of the end of daylight savings time, and we're literally seconds away from putting a black fabric clothier atop the Fortune 500.
October 29, 2006
Jack-O-Lanterns, Hailstorms and Chili-Dogs
My stomach feels like shit. I don't know why, or what, but something isn't agreeing with me. It's probably the Mexican food we ate after Amy got finished with church earlier. I ate cheese and sour cream in large amounts, and I don't think it was right for me. Amy said that she read somewhere that being off of milk products for a while makes people lactose-intolerant. Maybe that's it?
Sleeping With the Naughty Oughties
Tomorrow morning is the best day of the year. Everyone in the United States, except for the fine people of Arizona and Hawaii, are awarded an extra hour of sleep with the end of Daylight Savings Time. And that is really just the best thing ever.
October 26, 2006
Happy Pills and Talk Show Hosts
It's been a pretty shitty month in terms of weather. The grayness has reigned surpreme, so my mind has been off. I feel like locking myself in a dark room, sucking down Marlboro Reds and listening to old sad bastard music. And while I haven't quite done that, my behavior is definitely in that direction -- completely socially detatched, unproductive, mentally restless.
iTunes Survey Number 2
I did an iTunes survey a few months ago. This one is different. I don't really care. I just want to sleep, but I can't. I have nothing to say, so I'm wasting my time on bullshit like this. Deal with it.
October 24, 2006
Long Weekend, Long Post
October 20, 2006
How Many of Me?
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What's funny is that, when you type my name into Google, you come up with people who have written SCUBA diving guides, are the town crier, etc... but all of them are outside of the U.S.
Alright, Groovy Guys and Groovy Gals...
We're going to Indiana today when we're finished at work. Right now, I'm waiting around the house for a load of laundry to finish so I can finish packing, and I'm waiting for Amy to call and let me know her check has arrived so I can deposit it on the way to work.
October 18, 2006
Random Thoughts Vol 15
This'll be a short one. I think.
October 16, 2006
The Akron Penguins
Excuse my nerd moment.
I had a big night tonight after Amy went to sleep.
October 15, 2006
Bittersweet Dodged Bullets
This weekend has been a pretty decent weekend. We've been doing a lot of things outside the house even though I've been pretty sick with an awful cold. We hit a football game, a couple of hockey games, and may have a hike tomorrow. You can see pictures of our adventures the past couple weekends on theshears.com.
October 13, 2006
Equal Parts
I'm sitting around the house, blowing out snot by the gallon, listening to Lou Reed and reading about the Canadian House of Commons. How strange. Seems like a setting for a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas sort of movie. Minus all drugs stronger than cough syrup, of course. Though cough syrup can be fun...
October 12, 2006
Hope.
I'm not one to quote anything on my blog, certainly not the bible. I need to do so right now. It gives me hope, which is something religion doesn't do very often for me. I'll explain more later.
October 10, 2006
Have you ever seen a fat (pseudo-)vegan?
I've been reading William Bunge's Fitzgerald the past week or so, in order to prepare for a discussion on the book in GRAD Group. It's a geographer's look at a neighborhood in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s, examining the social problems that contributed to its current state. He was exiled to Canada shortly after the publication of the book and blacklisted from the discipline because it was "too revolutionary." It's about 1/50th as revolutionary as some of the stuff out there today.
No Accountability
A couple thoughts about some current events:
October 08, 2006
Books
I just realized something as I was updating my profile on myspace:
Decent but Meh.
I guess it's been a few days. Busy-ness (isn't that "business"?) does that.
October 04, 2006
A Playlist for Fall
My current list of music in heavy rotation. I think the change of the season is having an effect on my listening.
Debate This.
There's nothing like an indepth debate about a topic with which you've only just recently become familiar to prove that you're a jackass.
Random Thoughts Vol 14
I am now an uncle, for the first time ever. This makes Amy an aunt. And no, Tim (thankfully) didn't go knock someone up.... this is the daugther of Amy's brother and sister-in-law. Her name is Eliza Suzanne. If you'd like to see a picture of the newcomer and/or comment on that event, visit theshears.com. It's right on the front page, yo. I'm a proud uncle. I think. It doesn't really make sense in my head yet that I am related to this tiny thing in the image we received via phone, but I guess it will soon.
October 03, 2006
Meh.
Relatively "meh."