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| Thu 22:26 | 
 | ONE WEEK TO MODESTO: I called Mom for Mother's Day and the subject came up of what she might want to stock the fridge with when we visit. I spent a good five minutes trying to convince her that "Pepsi Max" was a real thing and not some regional selection |
| 10.5 21:01 |
 | While driving home, the iPod shuffled up a track from the Brookstone 2CD compilation "Smooth Jazz Weekend" and I smiled because it reminded me that I have a loving wife who would actually go to the Mall of America Brookstone in person and ask a salesperson to sell her a copy of "Smooth Jazz Weekend" to give to her husband for Christmas. (It's not even that bad! It's almost exclusively Japanese jazz dudes, so don't be fooled by the cover) |
| 9.5 00:22 |
| New slogan for Modesto: at least we're not Ceres (KCRA: Stanislaus County drug agents find 290 pounds of meth inside home Read more: http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-mod) |
| 8.5 23:58 |
| Two weeks from now we'll be in Modesto! I can hardly wait to hear people outside the bedroom window trying to steal my folks' minivan for crank money! |
| 5.5 23:15 |
 | Geez, I go to the bathroom and the Sharks score three goals. I gotta do more reading! (Also, how awesome has this weekend been?) |
| 3.5 20:20 | | Dudes, there is so much NBA Playoffs, NHL Playoffs and ARCA & NASCAR at Talladega on TV on this perfect rainy weekend |
| 1.5 22:11 |
 | RIP Mac Daddy (link to YouTube video: "Kris Kross Sprite Commercial") |
| 28.4 17:58 |
 | It hit 80 today! But I ain't shaving anything else! |
| 27.4 04:06 | | Well, it hit 71, so I'm shaving this thing off. Kim is bummed. (Don't worry - my NHL playoff beard will start almost immediately) |
| 22.4 19:05 |
| At this rate, I reckon I won't have to mow the lawn until the 4th of July |
| 18.4 19:22 |
 | Shoveled the walk. Did not get heart attack. Snow was JUICY. Dog crapped on the boulevard - thought to myself "owner would PROBABLY pick that up even if I weren't here." Listened to confused birds and possibly unhappy rabbits. Rechecked calendar. Still April 18. |
| 12.4 21:41 | | Oh, Facebook timeline, you're so amusing - but at least I was just able to mark a "Scott's Blog of Doom" sponsored ad "offensive" |
| 12.4 21:13 | | The short version of today's "there are no coincidences" story involves me buying the LAST copy of "Classic Pop" Issue 3 from the Roseville Barnes & Noble |
| 11.4 21:17 |
| ATTENTION CALIFORNIA: Pencil us in for May 23-June 4 - our first appearance in Modesto in almost four years! |
| 9.4 17:40 |
 | Just recycled three enormous bags of uncrushed aluminum cans - which barely fit in the New Beetle - and scored TWELVE BUCKS!!!!! I feel very Californian today. (I still have many bags of crushed cans in the garage, though - saving THEM for retirement. (Please don't break into our garage.)) |
| 8.4 23:33 |
| FOX BABY (ironically, airing on KARE and not on KMSP) (link to YouTube video: "Urban Fox and her cub- Lake Calhoun, Minneapolis") |
| 4.4 22:10 | | An interesting read from Dan - in all the Spanish words I can remember at this time...me encanta (Link to Daniel Watman's blog) |
| 4.4 02:11 |
| It's just like AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (Link to YouTube video: "Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators: Giorgio Moroder") |
| 30.3 17:00 | | Definitely shorts weather.
(Definitely bigger butt.) |
| 15.3 22:50 |
| Always amusing when the iPod shuffles up Christmas music way out of season - DOUBLY amusing when it happens while I find myself driving in snow down TH-280 - but, ya know....these lyrics work year round, really. Also, JB died on Christmas Day. (James Brown - Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay) |
| 13.3 02:30 | | I also would like lots of comments. Would you prefer a math question or a challenge to name a word without a certain letter in it? How about a questionable political opinion? Perhaps I could make reference to the local sports team. Or maybe I'll just link to a Maze featuring Frankie Beverly video. |
| 8.3 20:58 | | I have not had the chance to experience the joy of fathering a child, but I imagine it was something like how I felt last night after I finally passed Level 147 of Candy Crush Saga |
| 7.3 19:18 | | There was a piece of ground peanut in my phở! Is that good luck? (I guess it's lucky I don't have one of those trendy peanut allergies that kills you!) (It was DELICIOUS, by the way. I shoulda sprung for one of those appetizers with the ground peanuts in it!) |
| 20.2 23:18 | | "El Cleaño" is her trump card. |
| 18.2 00:02 | | I'm making unexpired Top Ramen! Is something wrong with me? |
| 7.2 00:08 | | I also got 12 out of 13, despite this Quiz seeming to have a lot of coastal bias. (Link to Pew Research Center: The News IQ Quiz) |
| 4.2 22:32 |
| Hey so I didn't even tell you the strangest part! The jar of preserves was $2.99. I paid with a $20. The cashier - again, this was around 02:25 so clearly at his best and brightest - grabbed $17 out of the till and closed the cash register, looked at the change, rechecked the receipt he'd just printed, then fumbled around the register because the only way the drawer would reopen was if he rang up another purchase or accessed a set of keys which were no doubt somewhere around wrist of someone close to the meat department. Before I could finish offering "you know, I really don't need that penny," he'd found one and thrust the change in my hand. I turned to leave and got a good ten paces before realising he'd handed me a Canadian penny. "Ah, he got me good," I thought, until this morning when I learned that Canada was discontinuing the penny and I now had a collector's item. Take THAT, Cub Foods! |
| 4.2 02:09 |
| Dateline: 26TH AVE S, BETWEEN 28TH ST AND 29TH ST E - It's a crap shoot visiting Cub Foods after the bars close, as you can find yourself behind a dozen or more toasted folks determined to tie up the one cashier - and it's never more than one cashier on duty at this Cub at this hour... hell, sometimes it's zero - for well longer than your desire to make sure you have the requisite number of jars of apricot preserves for the next day's crock pot of li'l smokies in apricot preserves and neon mustard for Joel's Super Bowl party. But my timing was fortunate as there was only one lady ahead of me - like me, she also had a single item to purchase, and I felt less weird about checking out at 02:20 am with one jar of apricot preserves because, in my mind at least, her jar of taco sauce was an infinitely stranger and definitely more out of place acquisition. |
| 31.1 22:34 |
| As we turned left from Central Ave SE to University Ave SE, I regarded the police car now comfortably in place in the rear view mirror and wondered aloud: if I started speeding when it was five below and even colder than that when the wind chill was taken into account, would they actually pull me over and get out of the warmth of the black and white car? Being older and wiser then when I first dreamt up ways of challenging authority like this, I decided against testing the theory. To reward me karma divined the foot of the driver of the yellow cab in the lane to the let of me to floor it, and it inexplicably started speeding away... long enough for the cop to switch lanes, speed up and follow THEM, and by the time the hack figured out perhaps their own left turn should immediately be considered as a form of escape, the red and blue flashers had come on and they BOTH made a turn onto 16th Street SE and right to the curb. The civic duty and/or desire to brandish and exploit the power of their badge and office shown by the cop was noted by both the driver AND passenger of the slightly-differently-from-a-cab-yellow coloured Beetle as we picked up speed out of Dinkytown and on our way home. |
| 31.1 22:23 | | Note to self: grabbing cinnamon grinder and blindly applying freshly ground cinnamon instead of pepper is definitely not the gastronomic/geographic adventure you attempted to spin it as to your wife |
| 30.1 01:11 |
 | Turns out Kim's working tomorrow during the Timberwolves game - I know it's short notice, but would anyone like her ticket? Should be an interesting game versus the Clippers, decent seat for nothin', $5 to park in the Macy's lot and the only down side is you'd be sitting next to me. Sorry in advance to my California friends for not giving you more notice. :) We'd have to meet up at the Target Center around 6-ish for me to hand you her ticket. Anybody interested? |
| 20.1 20:19 | | Dear Facebook friend: I read your chain mail, but I didn't respond to it, and I'm not pasting it here for other people to fret about whether THEY should break the chain or not. But I did read it, I still love you, and I'm totally real. (Except we both know I'm not real.) |
| 20.1 05:35 | | Extraordinary. |
| 19.1 23:17 |
| Dudes, the Arby's on University Ave SE is GONE. When did this happen?! (Well, the building is still there (for now), but all the super cool vintage signage is outta here.) Turns out it's getting knocked down (along with the plasma center) for an 6/11/6 story...um...dorm, I think. I guess I should pay attention to this stuff. |
| 19.1 02:35 |
| Hey Ferrall, pour me a cold one (Link to YouTube video: "Scott Ferrall Ferrallavision_1996ish") |
| 13.1 02:41 |
| If "Red Dawn" is airing on any channel, Kim will find it. (It's on Encore at the moment.) |
| 1.1 02:00 | | Happy New Year, two hours late - or to my friends in the Pacific zone, right on time! |
| 31.12 18:50 |
| Speaking of nostalgic choonage, me favourite NYE jam turned 25 (I'm old) this year - thanks and big ups to King Boy D and Rockman Rock, wherever you are. (Link to "The JAMs: Burn the Bastards") |
| 31.12 18:02 |
 | Past few years I've tried to share a Grooveshark playlist of stuff I listened to from the previous year but in 2012 I was really awful about listening to stuff from 2012, so sorry I have nothin' to share this time. We'll see if this is an aberration or a trend - or if I finally hit that age where I give up on playing "future DJ" and just listen to mostly 1970s and 1980s stuff for the rest of my natural life. |
| 29.12 15:47 |
 | This is the second time I tried to share this (which doesn't mean the government got to me the first time...I hope) - anyway, a blog post made for Facebook and thanks, Congress... (Link to reason.com: Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy than Washington?) |
| 17.12 04:05 | | I love you, but you're like the 500th person who thinks I need to read "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother." |
| 16.12 05:43 | | Oh, Internet. (cc: Shona McKean Lewis Sally Wold Marcus Metropolis) (Link to "Morgan Freeman’s Newtown ‘Statement’ Almost Definitely A Hoax") |
| 15.12 16:14 | | There should be no excuse for a double standard. That's all I care to say (and more than you want to hear). |
| 12.12 00:23 |
 | OK, I have "new MySpace" invites. If you seriously want one, I will seriously offer (up to seven of) you one. Otherwise, as you were - make your own MySpace joke here |
| 6.12 00:36 |
| As much as I want to make fun of it, I DID just spend almost two hours playing around on the new MySpace. My first impression (which, as anyone in the industry will tell you, is totally worthless): I think it's going to turn out to be pretty good for music, and Google+ for everything else. |
| 1.12 19:23 |
 | So long, mustache. (Welcome back, beard!) (Movember photo: Day 30) |
| 25.11 23:13 |
| For your next DJ set - a strangely compelling groove... (link to "Donna Summer: I Feel Love (backwards)") |
| 21.11 23:51 | | Just remember, if you're not sure who the turkey is....it's you. |
| 16.11 16:48 |
 | This was all I cared about, and it seems like they haven't existed for like 20 years, so screw 'em (Link to Flickr photo: "Hostess Pudding Pie") |
| 14.11 23:55 |
 | Is it true? The first McRibs of the season have been located in the Dinkytown Mickey D's! |
