Very very early Saturday morning (after the post-TMBG concert trip to Denny’s) I mentioned to alenxa, “I’ve already forgotten the name of the opening act.”
Her: “Corn Mo'”
Me: “Ah. All I could think of was Moo Cow.”
Retreat!
For those of you who haven’t already seen them, I’ve posted some of the more amusing pictures from last weekend’s camping trip (well, mostly from the drive to and from Joshua Tree) over on K-Squared Ramblings.
Also, I found that the location of the last retreat alenxa and I made it to, Cuyamaca State Park, was indeed wiped out by the Cedar fire last October. There’s a picture on the park website right now of “what’s left of an ancient oak” – a collapsed, hollowed-out trunk with burning coals still visible inside. Right next to our campsite, there was a fenced-off oak tree labeled as one of the oldest oaks in the state. The page also has a picture of the picnic area where we stopped for lunch on Saturday, showing a half-collapsed picnic table.
What the heck: the Movie Poll
Stolen from andrea_wot:
Give me a break
Folding laundry (having left it sitting on the bed all evening, forgotten). I have three sets of nearly-identical socks. After sorting through the two sizes of black socks and the dark-dark-dark blue socks that match one of the black sets, I discovered:
Badum-bum-bum!
I am missing one of each set.
Meme-ography
Early
Here’s the very early song.
Won’t you help and sing along?
It’s early
I knew it
So early
I rue it
I’m very very sorry that I woke up at this hour
Just don’t fall asleep again, you’re driving…
(Sorry, I’m too tired to come up with a good rhyme.)
Camping
Off to the annual CHP Retreat this weekend. We were determined to go since we missed last year, but with so much last-minute wedding preparation going on, it’s beginning to look less like a fantastic idea. Or rather more like a good idea with a high cost.
Still, the eve of such a trip is a perfect time to review quotes from campouts past.
I mean, who could forget such gems as “Hold it there, Tyler, we’re going to take a picture of your… pickle” and “She’s like a little snowman… from hell!” And of course, “We can’t have scones running around unzipped, can we?”
I wonder if anyone collected quotes on last year’s trip?
Peer Pressure
As previously posted by maldis, sekl and others:
| You are 43% geek |
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.
You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You’ll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!
Geek [to You]: I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!
You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.
Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com
First Post!
I finally decided what to do with this account (other than commenting and tracking). I’ve got a fairly long-running group blog with alenxa at K-Squared Ramblings, and I didn’t want to move all my stuff off of that. At the same time, I didn’t want to leave this blank.
After tossing out several options, I’ve decided this is where I’ll post memes and at least some personal stuff (not in the way-too-personal sense, but in the I-don’t-think-anyone-who-doesn’t-already-know-me-will-be-interested sense).