Monthly Archives: April 2010

I got a couple of birthday presents this week, and one of them was some alterations to the front of my car. I only noticed it this afternoon, when I returned to my car as I was leaving work, so I thought it happened then. There are only three places I park and that’s the one that gets the most traffic. But when I got to the gym I found the missing part of my grill out in the street and I knew someone just backed into my car. And didn’t leave a note. Hooray. Tonight burger club went somewhere WITHOUT burgers, Koi Studio {1}. I had a K-dog (the … Continue reading →

This is my birthday week and I’ve felt pretty good all week. I was asked by one of my friends (the one who told me I should go out with women I find unattractive because that’s all I was ever going to get at this point) what age of women I could go out with now. Well, the Sex and the City calculation is half your age plus seven, so (46/2)+7 = 30. But I’ve come to find that calculation ONLY WORKS FOR WOMEN. I get all sorts of shit for wanting to go out with younger women (well, 30 is about the limit, really, because too young and I’d … Continue reading →

So Apple announced new laptops today and they’re lots faster than the one I have. Or so they say. And I can get a bigger SSD hard drive for a whole lot of money. Yeesh. And here I was thinking I wasn’t even going to get an iPad until my sister started talking about paying for half. I’m going to put it out of my head for at least 6 hours. Just because those 6 hours are sleep hours doesn’t mean anything, right? Speaking of which, maybe I should get a head start on that already.

It’s a tradition at the gym to do birthday burpees. Perhaps you remember burpees from gym class as squat-thrusts, but there’s an extra pushup added to them, and they suck. Last week I was trying to get a guy to stay at home so I wouldn’t have to do birthday burpees with him but he’s only 26 so that wouldn’t have been so bad, though I wouldn’t have been able to do them straight through. Forty-six of them was awful. I went out to Metrovino for $5 bubbly/$5 burgers tonight. Thanks to Nurse Tiff for organizing. The guys at Metrovino are incredibly nice and the single-patty Monday burger was delicious. … Continue reading →

I’ve noticed a lot of the ads I see on match.com (and I reply to almost none of them because no one replies to me) seem to say the top end of the guys they want to go out with is 45. So there you go, another statistical reason not to be on match.com, especially after tomorrow when I turn 46. Besides, match.com sucks. I spent most of my day reading comic books today. The problem is that there’s always more where they came from. I also started more birthday gluttony by going to Laurelhurst Market for dinner and having the second steak of the weekend. I’m not entirely thrilled … Continue reading →

Let me first say that you do not have a constitutional right to be happy. You have a right to pursue happiness. Nor do you have a right to not be annoyed. If you misconstrue something I’ve said to have way more negative meaning than I meant to have, let me know and next time I’ll meet or exceed your expectations. The plumbing supply keeps calling me to pick up all the stuff I bought. I went down today, waited in line for 20 minutes, and was told they want to deliver all my stuff, especially my tub. THE ONE THING I TOLD THEM I DIDN’T WANT TO PICK UP … Continue reading →

Burger club, where a bunch of us from the gym go out and have burgers, is getting a big overlarge. We had thirteen people tonight and we went to Metrovino. The burger there was excellent, and it’s probably close to the one from Laurelhurst Market. It was a giant double burger and they only had five left. Fortunately, it was big enough that ten of us split five of them. On the minus side, there were no fries. I had the bacon-wrapped date salad instead. It was quite tasty. The desserts were good as well, though the cheesecake at Laurelhurst Market is my favorite right now. On the minus side, … Continue reading →

I kind of knew something awful was going to happen at the gym, and for some reason I just didn’t care that much. I figured I’d take the run easy, then I decided I’d do the kettlebell swings easy, and then I tried to stay on the pullups longer than I usually do. I finally broke the 10 minute mark on Helen today by doing something else quite simple: cheating. My last few pullups weren’t as pretty as they should have been. My new bathroom scale is a bad thing to have. I’ve been weighing myself every time I go to the bathroom, just to see if going to the … Continue reading →

I never get enough sleep, so I really don’t need a call at 1:30AM from a FAX scammer. My phone lets me turn off the ringer during specific hours, so I could just let everything in the middle of the night go to the answering machine, but the last time someone called in the middle of the night it was my friend’s wife because my friend was in the hospital. I got up and went down there as fast as I could for moral support and that’s a good enough reason to leave the ringer on. But if these FAX scammer bastards keep calling I don’t know what I’ll have … Continue reading →

My sister asked me what I wanted for my birthday and told me she’d pay for half of an iPad. I was going to wait for the second generation iPad, but why wait? I’ve decided I’m pretty close to completely nuts, so I just need two more things: an accurate bathroom scale and bagpipes. The bathroom scale I’ve been using is older than I am. My mom doesn’t know how old it is since it was in the family since before she was married to my dad. It seems to give repeatable measurements, but I’m not sure how accurate it is. Now I can weigh myself all the time and … Continue reading →

I had a couple of burgers in the past few days that were OK, but not that great. The burger patties at the Mad Greek and Helvetia Tavern are probably from Sysco. I’m really unimpressed with Helvetia but I have reasons other than the burger for my loyalty to the Mad Greek. In fact, my Yorgo Burger at the Mad Greek was free because of their Tuesday Facebook giveaway. I was feeling the burger in my gut all day. Today I had my favorite thin-patty diner burger at Skyline Burger with fries, and a chocolate malt. Somehow that combination is hard to beat. I forgot that Easter is a big … Continue reading →

That’s pretty much the idea, but yesterday I was at a birthday dance party and quite sober but tonight I’m watching TV and movies and drinking. I must say that this Maestro Dobel Diamond that they’ve started to sell in Oregon is quite nice. Today I had to drive THMFIC to a submission wrestling tournament and I figured I’d better not be hung over in a room overfull of testosterone and lack of sense. I had a good time at both, surprisingly, standing in the corner at the party and at the tournament. Turns out it’s better to stay out of the way in a lot of places. At the … Continue reading →