I’m at GenCon. While I’m there, my wife sees my niece at a family party back in Chicago. She’s four (my niece), and she still gets a little confused when we tell her things.
felixnation :: Aug.17.2007 :: Conversations, Odysseys, family, wife :: No Comments »
Is a glass that is neither too tall nor too deep, together with a cookie that can be both completely submerged without getting stuck at the bottom.
Hence, I must appropriate the proper permissions to conduct the following experiment:
felixnation :: Aug.08.2007 :: Mad Schemes, wife :: No Comments »
You pay to socialize with people. You pay for the food, for the transportation, for the medical bills…
But when I socialize with my coworkers, I’m beginning to think that you don’t just pay, but you pay real money.
felixnation :: Aug.07.2007 :: Odysseys, coworkers, wife :: No Comments »
Today I’m trying to get my PS2 to boot when my wife calls.
What are you doing, she asks.
Trying to play, I say.
Are you lying on the floor pathetically resetting that thing for hours and hours?
No, I say getting up, I’m standing up. Continue Reading »
felixnation :: Aug.03.2007 :: Addictions, Conversations, wife :: No Comments »
We’re at the Children’s Museum playing with…ok it’s all a blur. We’re playing with random pretend crap for kids (and when I say crap, I mean cool stuff). My niece and nephew are fake grocery shopping in a kid’s town, fake delivering mail, fake creating a plumbing system under a fake house.
It’s really cool. Continue Reading »
felixnation :: Aug.02.2007 :: Odysseys, family :: No Comments »
For me, August is nice because, well, my birthday falls in August. And birthdays mean presents, attention, and forgiveable amounts of gluttony. Wait, I get these all year round? So how is August different?
felixnation :: Aug.01.2007 :: Addictions, The Coal Mine, wife :: No Comments »
My wife and I rent movies through Netflix. We set a list of movies up in a queue, and they’re mailed out to the house one at a time as we return movies we watch.
I have to set it up to see The Big Lebowski, a guy film that I’ve never seen before.
Why?
Because of Under the Tuscan Sun. Because of death.
Oh, why haven’t I ever seen it before? That movie that’s like a rite of passage for guys?
That, I’ll get to later.
felixnation :: Aug.01.2007 :: Learnin' Stuff, Mad Schemes, friends :: No Comments »