Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Fall in California

And the Orb Weaver spiders come out.

Why do the really big ones always choose to camp out at face level right in front of my garage?

This can't be good.

Ok, so I should properly credit Ben Templesmith, his twitter feed, his facebook comments, etc. for noticing this, but...ahem....holy fucking shit.


Of course, the article off the AP feed that got my attention.

And worse, this article from the Huffington Post that gives a fabulous "correlation does not imply causation" (*but holy crap*) moment.

Another fine day in Orange County

"They both want to travel to the land of competition
Southern California will destroy them" (Bad Religion)

Seriously, how can you not appreciate articles like this?

"Eventually relented"? How do you imagine that debate must've gone?

End of Summer Extravaganza!

What I Did on My Summer Vacation

• Became single (again)

• Started smoking (again)

• Bought a bicycle. Rode 673 miles.

• Solved the cat problem

• Shaved off the beard

• Lost 43 lbs

• Figured out how to use the postal system

• Paid off all my debt

• Quit smoking. (again.)

• Figured out something about goals

What'd you do? Anything fun?

Milestone 2

Sub-190

For the record

I will be turning off my router tomorrow evening at 7pm. I will be turning off my cellphone at the same time. Landline phone? Yeah, ringer off.

I will not be reachable in any way this weekend unless you know where I live and convince me to actually answer the urgent knocking at my door.

Thank you.

Man vs. God

I don't even know where I stand anymore when it comes to religion, so I'll just say I found this an interesting read: Man Vs. God

Everything Changes

I picked up the new Pigface album the other day and have been listening to it. Sure, it seems a little sloppier and more rushed than past releases, but there's a sense of something else I think I'm detecting.

It feels very much like a requiem for a musical scene (largely Chicago Industrial) that just isn't what it used to be. I can hear echoes of it in this recording, but whether it was the liner note suggesting that it was likely the last Pigface album or I've changed, I don't know.

There's a few songs I like, but maybe I'm just getting too old to identify with it anymore. Songs like "I Hate You In Real Life Too" might've stuck better with me a decade ago. "6.6.7.11" wasn't interesting at all and sounded a lot like something I could record in an afternoon. Liked "Mercenary", "The Good, The Bad and The Druggly" (though it could've been a lot tighter), I think my favorite is "Up and Down"

So not to make this sound like a review, but it had its high and low points. Just odd to me that it comes across as so much of an epilogue to a past chapter.

Oh, fine, I'll grow up already.

This being the summer of goals (wait for the extravaganza post in another week or two to recap the highlights), I'm kind of sitting here thinking "You know, I probably should stop dressing like I did 10 years ago."

Not because I've been fashionably awkward all this time, never cared about that. But I'm 32 now and the only way to keep being weird (and not pathetic) is to start over-dressing a little. Dress shirt. Slacks. Nice shoes. Tie.

I swear I've not been watching Grosse Pointe Blank, but there's a certain appeal to saying your job is "Professional Killer" without anyone batting an eye. Now the trick to figure out how to transition to dressing like a professional adult without my management thinking I'm out interviewing every day....

(The last time I wore a tie to work, a significant percentage of the cow-orkers acted like they were having cardiac events)

Guess I'm really just tired of being a borderline slob. Lots of excuses not to buy new clothes when my weight hasn't stabilized yet (on the cusp of milestone 2, btw. Under a pound for that one)