January 31, 2005
Notes from the weekend
1. If you're on the South Beach Diet, don't attempt to get crunk'd within the bounds of your allowed food intake by downing five vodka and club sodas. They taste awful and the bagel that could have been the difference between recovery and continued hangover the next morning will lie just beyond your reach, as you dejectedly munch on dry turkey bacon.
2. Some people don't like being rushed and aren't afraid to let you know. For example, take the guy who was clearing his car of snow last night. I put my car in park a few yards behind the spot and waited for him to clear off the windows. Then he cleared the rest of the car almost completely of all snow. Then he took several passes around the car, front and back, to make sure the car was properly snow-free as I turned on my hazards to signal other drivers that I'd be awhile. Passive agressive much?
3. Of Montreal's Satanic Panic in the Attic is awesome.
4. It's also probably one of the last CDs to be burnt on my circa-2000 notebook computer, which has seen better days. Attached to an external keyboard and monitor like an iron lung and a dialysis machine, it took ten minutes to open up a 2-page PDF on Sunday. I'm not buying a replacement quite yet, in the hopes that prices will drop in the next few months to the point that I can get it for less than the cost of an iPod, which I'm also not buying for fear that it will arrive the day they announce the new 100GB, $23.87 5G models.
5. Realizing that I'd miss Desperate Housewives: saddening.
Finding out that it was an hour later: awesome.
Seeing that it was a rerun: maddening.
Posted by rj3 at January 31, 2005 1:51 PM
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Hear, hear, re Of Montreal.
Posted by: John at February 1, 2005 10:52 AM