Last night was my aunt and uncle's 20th wedding anniversary party, and I found myself thinking, "wait- is this one of those TUXEDO OPPORUNITIES I've been waiting for?"
Yes. Yes it was.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
This SO happened
Last night was my aunt and uncle's 20th wedding anniversary party, and I found myself thinking, "wait- is this one of those TUXEDO OPPORUNITIES I've been waiting for?"
Yes. Yes it was.
Monday, August 11, 2008
The Drawer of Destiny
It's not much of a secret that Heidi and I have serious pack rat tendencies. Of course, in classic FOA style, we're pack rats about DIFFERENT THINGS. So, the whole Fortress is full of boxes of things that one of us keeps trying to throw out, while the other says, "well, I don't know, we might need those someday..."
"We might need 50 feet worth of late 1980s Parallel Printer cables?"
"...."
Therefore, the system that's developed is one of largely tolerance and selective blindness. This is, of course, highly exacerbated by our inability to actually put anything away ever. It's not so much that we're lazy, you understand - it's that we're both champion grade procrastinators. And again, about largely different things, which tends to end in a net result of us getting nothing done.
(As an aside, this is my official marriage planning advice to all single people is this: marry someone who likes to do chores. But will be classy about it. And while you're at it, someone rich.)
Where I'm going with this is this: When we manage to spend an afternoon taking the drawer in the dining room we've been using as the place to stick all the crap we don't know what to do with for the past year and turn it into this:
Well, it's a relief for me anyway. Our kids might not get tetanus and die after all.
"We might need 50 feet worth of late 1980s Parallel Printer cables?"
"...."
Therefore, the system that's developed is one of largely tolerance and selective blindness. This is, of course, highly exacerbated by our inability to actually put anything away ever. It's not so much that we're lazy, you understand - it's that we're both champion grade procrastinators. And again, about largely different things, which tends to end in a net result of us getting nothing done.
(As an aside, this is my official marriage planning advice to all single people is this: marry someone who likes to do chores. But will be classy about it. And while you're at it, someone rich.)
Where I'm going with this is this: When we manage to spend an afternoon taking the drawer in the dining room we've been using as the place to stick all the crap we don't know what to do with for the past year and turn it into this:
Well, it's a relief for me anyway. Our kids might not get tetanus and die after all.
Made available here for Reference
The Five Point Movie Scoring System is an infallible system developed over years of painstaking research. The System boils the total value of a Movie down to a totally accurate score between Zero and Five, the higher the better.
A Single Point is scored for the presence of each of the following:
1) Robots (also valid: Cyborgs or Replicants.)
2) Explosions (Any kind)
3) Ninjas
4) Nudity
5) Space Ships (or any other sufficiently advance mode of travel)
The Value of this system can be observed by the following ratings:
Star Wars: 4 points
Starship Troopers: 4 points
MORTAL COMBAT! 3 points (added by Heidi)
Raiders of the Lost Ark: 1 Point
Blade Runner: 1 Point
Citizen Kane: 0 points
No one has ever found a 5-Point movie. This is believed to be an entirely mythical concept.
A Single Point is scored for the presence of each of the following:
1) Robots (also valid: Cyborgs or Replicants.)
2) Explosions (Any kind)
3) Ninjas
4) Nudity
5) Space Ships (or any other sufficiently advance mode of travel)
The Value of this system can be observed by the following ratings:
Star Wars: 4 points
Starship Troopers: 4 points
MORTAL COMBAT! 3 points (added by Heidi)
Raiders of the Lost Ark: 1 Point
Blade Runner: 1 Point
Citizen Kane: 0 points
No one has ever found a 5-Point movie. This is believed to be an entirely mythical concept.
Monday, August 4, 2008
And what did you do over the weekend?
Us? Um... we beat the Endless Playlist in Rockband. Yes, the one with 58 songs in a row.
Took us 6 hours.
Notice our highly sophisticated XBox360 cooling mechanism:
It's a fan. Blowing on a bowl of ice cubes. We had to change the ice every couple of songs - usually the XBox crashes on us every hour or two, but not this time.
Took us 6 hours.
Notice our highly sophisticated XBox360 cooling mechanism:
It's a fan. Blowing on a bowl of ice cubes. We had to change the ice every couple of songs - usually the XBox crashes on us every hour or two, but not this time.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
