Wow, so much stuff to talk about in the last couple of weeks. I started working an extra day at the bookstore, which means I have a little bit of extra pocket money… that will probably go to buying books at the bookstore… and will inevitably sit on a table at my house since I am totally out of room on my bookshelves. I bought about another 10 this week too. Geez, I’ve got a big paper monkey on my back.
Hm, what else?
- Taking advantage of the brief stint of beautiful weather, I went on a picnic in the park with Mrs. C this past week. We ate focaccia sandwiches, olives, dolmades and eccles cakes, drank orange creamsicle sodas and fended off attacks by a very cute bulldog puppy that thought our sandwiches were his.
- When I lived with my friend Dylan back in 2000, we were bachelor types that ate in the living room while watching Star Trek: Voyager and used one condiment. The Condiment, a.k.a. Saigon chilis in oil. I’ve tried other chilis in oil from various manufacturers, but there was something about Saigon that made it extra good. Maybe it was the promise of a new millennium. Anyway, I hadn’t seen it since and presumed that it just disappeared (like all of my turn of the century optimism) until I went to Save-On Foods the other day and there it was, as if waiting for me. The Condiment is back; all hail The Condiment.
- Also at Save-On, we scored a $6 copy of AtmosFear–you know, the DVD update of the old classic VHS boardgame Nightmare, where the “Gatekeeper” verbally mocks you and calls you maggot while you try to win. Excessive awesomeness for cheap. If anyone wants to hang out and be verbally abused by a fictional character, let me know.
- Completely unintentionally, my 1500th scrobbled song on LastFM turned out to be “Dirty White Boy” by Foreigner. It feels like there should be some kind of hidden meaning in there. Maybe there’s some not-so-hidden meaning in there…
- My sweetie bought me the Playmobil “Brokeback Viking” set. Well, seriously, what would you call it? There’s two Norsemen hanging out in a cozy tent with a bearskin rug. *cough* I suppose it’s an appropriate Easter gift though, since the Norse killed lots of Christians and then became them. There’s an analogy in there if you look hard enough.
- Speaking of Playmobil, the Viking line appears to be discontinued but one of the new series for 2007 is the Romans, and come its release in August the trireme is totally gonna be fighting my Norse longship.
- And finally, I am now on Facebook, so poke away:
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Uh-huh. Puffin’ away at Gareth’s wedding. Would have lit one up at YOUR wedding, too, but I guess SOMEONE was too cool for school… even though we both graduated way too long ago.
Comment by Chris Eng 04.09.07 @ 9:54 pmThey do indeed. The bathtub wars may commence.
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Dude! It’s the condiment! Fairway here in town still carries it; had I known you were jonesin’ I’d have sent out a care package.
And that Facebook pic…are you smoking?
Comment by Dylan 04.09.07 @ 6:21 pm