I don't know which is worse. The fact that I just ruined a good pair of jeans, or that it all happened over less than stellar pizza.
G
Saturday, March 10, 2007
birthday blood
I wish robin was here
big birthday bean burrito
pull over, man...
sxsw swag!!
zipa-dee-poo-dah
only in texas...
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Happy T'aint To You!
So, is this considered to be the Holiday "T'aint"? Smack-dab between Chrsitmas and New Year's. Too late to waste your days shopping and too soon to start drinking heavily. What are we supposed to do with this time. I don't wanna work, but I am tired of hanging out at home.
That's all I got for now.
-G
That's all I got for now.
-G
Monday, July 10, 2006
I Am Not Writing About Superman Returns
Yes. I saw the movie. Yes. I enjoyed the movie. Quite a bit in fact. I just didn't like it nearly as much as Batman Begins, but then, how could I?
I will, however, send you to read a blog by someone who did write about the new film. You ARE NOT ALLOWED to go read it if you haven't seen the movie though. Have you seen it? You have? No fooling? OK , here you go.
I will, however, send you to read a blog by someone who did write about the new film. You ARE NOT ALLOWED to go read it if you haven't seen the movie though. Have you seen it? You have? No fooling? OK , here you go.
Friday, March 24, 2006
I'm Feeling Kinda Gassy
Six years ago we bought a basic, black, "bean can" of a pickup truck. We bought it because we were moving into an new house and we knew we would be doing the move ourselves, as well as any big interior and landscaping projects. The plan was to get the truck, do all the big work, and then trade it in for something nicer in about 2 years. Yeah, that plan certainly worked out well.
Since this was to be a vehicle of necessity, we got NOTHING extra. No 4-wheel drive, or cassette/cd player, or A/C, or electric locks, or bed liner,... nothing. As long as it ran well, I really didn't care how the truck looked either. My philosphy has always been, "It's a truck, and I will use it like a truck." The windshield has an elegant network of cracks thanks to driving behind gravel trucks up and down "the canyon" to Black Hawk when I was a blackjack dealer a few years back. The bed of the black truck actually looks gray from all the scratches caused by hauling countless loads of dirt, patio pavers, folding poker tables and chairs, etc.
There are two emblems on the tailgate of the truck. The Ford logo, and another I always assumed was the logo for the dealership. Recently I learned that this was not the case. The second emblem is Ford's logo for "flex-fuel" vehicles. This means I can put "e85" (85% ethanol) fuel in the tank and it will run fine.
For six years I have been killing the planet by filling up with regular gas, when I could have been saving lives, reversing decades of environmental abuse ,and ending America's "addiction to oil" by using this alternate fuel. I hereby vow, from this day forward, to do my part and use e85 in my piece-of-junk Ford Ranger. Did I mention that I checked and e85 is going for $1.99 a gallon right now? That's $.50 cheaper! Woohoo!
Of course I will be making a sacrifice, considering it isn't all that convenient to get this fuel. You see, there is only one station in Denver that sells e85. Granted, it is located very close to the Blue Bonnet, my favorite greasy, "shlock" Mexican food restaurant. That way I suppose, I can double load up on gas... if you know whut i'm sayin'.
Wow, that was bad. I apologize for the poor quality of this post. I guess I figured I have been away too long and that anything was better than nothing. Hmm. Shows what I know.
G
Since this was to be a vehicle of necessity, we got NOTHING extra. No 4-wheel drive, or cassette/cd player, or A/C, or electric locks, or bed liner,... nothing. As long as it ran well, I really didn't care how the truck looked either. My philosphy has always been, "It's a truck, and I will use it like a truck." The windshield has an elegant network of cracks thanks to driving behind gravel trucks up and down "the canyon" to Black Hawk when I was a blackjack dealer a few years back. The bed of the black truck actually looks gray from all the scratches caused by hauling countless loads of dirt, patio pavers, folding poker tables and chairs, etc.
There are two emblems on the tailgate of the truck. The Ford logo, and another I always assumed was the logo for the dealership. Recently I learned that this was not the case. The second emblem is Ford's logo for "flex-fuel" vehicles. This means I can put "e85" (85% ethanol) fuel in the tank and it will run fine.
For six years I have been killing the planet by filling up with regular gas, when I could have been saving lives, reversing decades of environmental abuse ,and ending America's "addiction to oil" by using this alternate fuel. I hereby vow, from this day forward, to do my part and use e85 in my piece-of-junk Ford Ranger. Did I mention that I checked and e85 is going for $1.99 a gallon right now? That's $.50 cheaper! Woohoo!
Of course I will be making a sacrifice, considering it isn't all that convenient to get this fuel. You see, there is only one station in Denver that sells e85. Granted, it is located very close to the Blue Bonnet, my favorite greasy, "shlock" Mexican food restaurant. That way I suppose, I can double load up on gas... if you know whut i'm sayin'.
Wow, that was bad. I apologize for the poor quality of this post. I guess I figured I have been away too long and that anything was better than nothing. Hmm. Shows what I know.
G
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Where is the Tangent Boy?
So... Schooly gives me shit for not posting. I'm not even going to bring up the fact that he hasn't updated this site in many many months. I'm not going to ask, "where is the Tangent Boy?". I'm not going to do it.
With that apophasis behind us, I can get to the point. I have a joke to tell:
"So did you hear about the dyslexic man who walked into a bra?"
Thank you. Thank you.
With that apophasis behind us, I can get to the point. I have a joke to tell:
"So did you hear about the dyslexic man who walked into a bra?"
Thank you. Thank you.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Smack It. Flip It. Rub It Down.
Not much to share with you all right now besides this completely USELESS info.
While in Amsterdam, I was watching TV one night and saw some clip of a woman folding a shirt in about 2 seconds. This fold job was as crisp as any you will ever see in the Gap. I told Robin and she didn't believe me until now...
I was just browsing around the site for ReadyMade magazine for a specific article. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled across this article, complete with folding instructions and a video!! I can now wait to pack for a Vegas trip until 5 minutes before heading out the door.
Happy laundering. - G
Update (2/08): The old link no longer works, here is a step-by-step guide on YouTube, thanks to VideoJug.
While in Amsterdam, I was watching TV one night and saw some clip of a woman folding a shirt in about 2 seconds. This fold job was as crisp as any you will ever see in the Gap. I told Robin and she didn't believe me until now...
I was just browsing around the site for ReadyMade magazine for a specific article. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled across this article, complete with folding instructions and a video!! I can now wait to pack for a Vegas trip until 5 minutes before heading out the door.
Happy laundering. - G
Update (2/08): The old link no longer works, here is a step-by-step guide on YouTube, thanks to VideoJug.
Monday, December 12, 2005
My Apologies
I am so sorry, dear fans of the Tangent Boy. My attentions have been elsewhere recently. What makes it worse is that I have been concentrating on other blogging efforts. Is that cheating? Should I feel dirty?
One of the reasons I started Tangent Boy was to provide a vehicle for me to get used to writing on a regular basis. That was so it wouldn't be so hard when I finally get going on a bigger project which, I can happily say, has kicked off. Don't expect any great writing, just long-winded descriptions of one of nature's most simple delicacies...
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the pre-release version of the Zealots of Za website.
The other distraction has been the preparation of our trip out of the country for the holidays. Of course, I had to create a blog about that as well. If you are a real glutton for punishment, feel free to track our voyage by going to ragz.com.
That's all for now. I promise I will return at some point with worthless rambling exposés on topics of little importance.
G
One of the reasons I started Tangent Boy was to provide a vehicle for me to get used to writing on a regular basis. That was so it wouldn't be so hard when I finally get going on a bigger project which, I can happily say, has kicked off. Don't expect any great writing, just long-winded descriptions of one of nature's most simple delicacies...
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the pre-release version of the Zealots of Za website.
The other distraction has been the preparation of our trip out of the country for the holidays. Of course, I had to create a blog about that as well. If you are a real glutton for punishment, feel free to track our voyage by going to ragz.com.
That's all for now. I promise I will return at some point with worthless rambling exposés on topics of little importance.
G
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Is it Wrong... ?
As many of you know, I am a pretty staunch vegetarian. This is a choice I made over 10 years ago based primarilly for ethical reasons. Knowing this, do you think it is wrong or hypocritical that I could go through and entire 3 lb. bag of animal crackers in one sitting?
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Please, Sir. Can I Have Some More Cottage Cheese?
So, for the past eleven days, Robin (my way-better half) and I have been on a diet. My first diet in 36 years of existence, in fact. It's not like I am a fatty-fatty, but I do have a little bit of a tire in the middle that forces me to wear kinda baggy shirts now and then. As you know, I do love the pizza and burritos. But, don't worry, I still have the long, skinny, chicken legs capped off by a lack of cushioning on the backside. It would be ideal if I could just rearrange the extra flesh, but alas...
Anyway, we were turned onto this diet so aptly named the "Idiot-Proof Diet". The appeal is that they pretty much guarantee that you will lose 9 pounds in eleven days. Another plus is that it is not a starvation diet. You are allowd to eat till you are satisfied, but not full. Lastly, they have a vegetarian/vegan version and I seem to be a sucker for anything that is a veggie-friendly version of a non-veggie food. Our freezer is constantly packed with various mock-meats since I feel it necessary to support any company who makes the effort to acknowledge us as a valid market.
The catch of this diet is that you are told exactly what you can eat, and it is fairly lacking in variety. You get four meals a day that can either be categorized as protein or carb meals. Each meal is usually one type of item and that is all you get, although you get as much as you want as long as you don't fill up too much. Some days it is almost all protein meals, somtimes all carbs, and occasionally there is a mix. I think the point is to keep your metabolism guessing, which keeps it running on high.
Day one (Monday) was quite a start. I was stuck in a 5-hour meeting at work when they brought in about 10 pizzas for lunch. PIZZAS!! DAY ONE!! Didn't anyone get the memo? I sat there and grumbled into the first bowl of cottage cheese I have ever eaten. Since then we have gone through THREE LARGE TUBS of cottage cheese a the house. If I never have another spoonful, I'll be good.
By day three (Wednesday) I was grumpy if anyone talked about food around me and I already had lunch plans for the following Friday to go to Anthony's as soon as the diet was done. Then I went to work out on day four and got on the scale. I had lost four pounds in three days. Wahoo! I could do this.
Let me get this straight for other first-time "idiots" trying this diet. Weekends suck! You are allowed only one glass of wine a day. What's the point? One glass makes you want another. The second glass either makes you want a third or makes you want to sleep and it isn't till the third or fourth do things really get good. Not to say that we need to get boozed up to enjoy the weekend, but if we are gonna go out on a Friday or Saturday night we are either going to eat or drink. We spent our Saturday night at the Super Target. I bought four pairs of boxers and two new pillows.
Just when I thought, "you know, this ain't so bad. I can do this for a while longer," the mother of all bad-days-to-be-dieting hit. Halloween. I had bought six bags of bite-size candy bars. Two bags each of Snickers, Reece's cups, and Kit-Kats. I was thinking that we normally don't get a ton of kids to come by, so I was already thinking ahead to day twelve when we could tuck into all the leftovers for breakfast.
I didn't count on the weather. A big reason we don't usually get a lot of trick-or-treaters is that Halloween in Denver is quite often a wet, cold, even snowy event, and most of the kids do their begging in malls or they just stay home. This year it was a gorgeous day and was still fairly mild well into the evening. My optimism sunk around 7pm when I had to dig into the second half of the stash. They didn't stop and they kept coming in huge groups. Normally I would be thinking "what a cute little kitty," or "that sure is a scary vampire". This time I was only grumbling about my dwindling cache. I think we have about five mini-candies left. Good think those Kit-Kats break in half easy, otherwise Robin would definitely be on the short end of that deal.
Now it is day eleven of an eleven day diet. As of early yesterday, I had lost 7.5 pounds. Part of me wants to see if I can gain it all back in the following three days. I think I have a good menu mapped out to do it primarily made up of sugar and cheese sandwiches on white Wonder bread. Ideally, they suggest to do the diet for eleven days, cheat for three, then start another eleven. The claim is that the three-day break actually helps your body break fat down faster in the next set of eleven. Like I said, I am pretty sure I will need more than a three-day break to willingly put another bowl of cottage cheese in front of me.
G
Anyway, we were turned onto this diet so aptly named the "Idiot-Proof Diet". The appeal is that they pretty much guarantee that you will lose 9 pounds in eleven days. Another plus is that it is not a starvation diet. You are allowd to eat till you are satisfied, but not full. Lastly, they have a vegetarian/vegan version and I seem to be a sucker for anything that is a veggie-friendly version of a non-veggie food. Our freezer is constantly packed with various mock-meats since I feel it necessary to support any company who makes the effort to acknowledge us as a valid market.
The catch of this diet is that you are told exactly what you can eat, and it is fairly lacking in variety. You get four meals a day that can either be categorized as protein or carb meals. Each meal is usually one type of item and that is all you get, although you get as much as you want as long as you don't fill up too much. Some days it is almost all protein meals, somtimes all carbs, and occasionally there is a mix. I think the point is to keep your metabolism guessing, which keeps it running on high.
Day one (Monday) was quite a start. I was stuck in a 5-hour meeting at work when they brought in about 10 pizzas for lunch. PIZZAS!! DAY ONE!! Didn't anyone get the memo? I sat there and grumbled into the first bowl of cottage cheese I have ever eaten. Since then we have gone through THREE LARGE TUBS of cottage cheese a the house. If I never have another spoonful, I'll be good.
By day three (Wednesday) I was grumpy if anyone talked about food around me and I already had lunch plans for the following Friday to go to Anthony's as soon as the diet was done. Then I went to work out on day four and got on the scale. I had lost four pounds in three days. Wahoo! I could do this.
Let me get this straight for other first-time "idiots" trying this diet. Weekends suck! You are allowed only one glass of wine a day. What's the point? One glass makes you want another. The second glass either makes you want a third or makes you want to sleep and it isn't till the third or fourth do things really get good. Not to say that we need to get boozed up to enjoy the weekend, but if we are gonna go out on a Friday or Saturday night we are either going to eat or drink. We spent our Saturday night at the Super Target. I bought four pairs of boxers and two new pillows.
Just when I thought, "you know, this ain't so bad. I can do this for a while longer," the mother of all bad-days-to-be-dieting hit. Halloween. I had bought six bags of bite-size candy bars. Two bags each of Snickers, Reece's cups, and Kit-Kats. I was thinking that we normally don't get a ton of kids to come by, so I was already thinking ahead to day twelve when we could tuck into all the leftovers for breakfast.
I didn't count on the weather. A big reason we don't usually get a lot of trick-or-treaters is that Halloween in Denver is quite often a wet, cold, even snowy event, and most of the kids do their begging in malls or they just stay home. This year it was a gorgeous day and was still fairly mild well into the evening. My optimism sunk around 7pm when I had to dig into the second half of the stash. They didn't stop and they kept coming in huge groups. Normally I would be thinking "what a cute little kitty," or "that sure is a scary vampire". This time I was only grumbling about my dwindling cache. I think we have about five mini-candies left. Good think those Kit-Kats break in half easy, otherwise Robin would definitely be on the short end of that deal.
Now it is day eleven of an eleven day diet. As of early yesterday, I had lost 7.5 pounds. Part of me wants to see if I can gain it all back in the following three days. I think I have a good menu mapped out to do it primarily made up of sugar and cheese sandwiches on white Wonder bread. Ideally, they suggest to do the diet for eleven days, cheat for three, then start another eleven. The claim is that the three-day break actually helps your body break fat down faster in the next set of eleven. Like I said, I am pretty sure I will need more than a three-day break to willingly put another bowl of cottage cheese in front of me.
G
Movin' on Up?
Since I have proved to be so prolific and accomplished at this whole blogging thing, I am coming to the decision that it may be time to force myself up a level or two and jump into the realm of podcasting. Gimme a couple weeks. I gotta get the home equity loan so I can turn our little bathroom or maybe the wife's closet into a sound recording studio.
**Tangent Alert** Please pause here while I check out www.meebo.com at the suggestion of a friend. A site which allows you to log into your IM accounts (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber) through a browser window and chat with others online without the use of individual apps. Should definitely come in handy while in Europe over the holidays. **End Tangent Alert**
So, as far as the podcasting goes, here are some things to look forward to. It will surely be more focused than Tangent Boy has been. I won't mention the topic here right now, but if you know me personally, you get 3 guesses (you won't need 2 of them). It will involve more people than myself on a regular basis. It won't be nearly as good as any other podcast out there.
Stay tuned. Until then, maybe i'll fill this blog with more journalesque "today I felt melancholy as I wathced the autumn leaves fall to the ground" type stuff... Maybe not.
G
**Tangent Alert** Please pause here while I check out www.meebo.com at the suggestion of a friend. A site which allows you to log into your IM accounts (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber) through a browser window and chat with others online without the use of individual apps. Should definitely come in handy while in Europe over the holidays. **End Tangent Alert**
So, as far as the podcasting goes, here are some things to look forward to. It will surely be more focused than Tangent Boy has been. I won't mention the topic here right now, but if you know me personally, you get 3 guesses (you won't need 2 of them). It will involve more people than myself on a regular basis. It won't be nearly as good as any other podcast out there.
Stay tuned. Until then, maybe i'll fill this blog with more journalesque "today I felt melancholy as I wathced the autumn leaves fall to the ground" type stuff... Maybe not.
G
Monday, October 17, 2005
Time Waster, Extraordinaire
Yes, I know it has been a long time since my last post. But, what did you expect? I am a confessed slacker, and a pretty good one at that. Allow me to illustrate...
Do you remember a good while back when I had a run-in with Taco Bell? Well, I got online and filed a complaint explaining that my order had been wrong. As expected, I soon received a letter from the corporate office apologizing for the mistake and offering me a free entree of my choice.
I was very excited to take this powerful document down to the location of the infraction and get my free Nacho's BellGrande (sans meat of course), but first, I wanted to share my victory over "the MAN" with the world. I eventually took a picture of myself with the letter and planned on posting an entry here before cashing it in. Well, the slacker in me took over and I procrastinated. I took so long, in fact, the the letter expired. No Nachos for me. To make up for it, I made sure to use a Q-Doba 2-for-1 coupon on THE DAY it expired. I feel better.
G
Do you remember a good while back when I had a run-in with Taco Bell? Well, I got online and filed a complaint explaining that my order had been wrong. As expected, I soon received a letter from the corporate office apologizing for the mistake and offering me a free entree of my choice.I was very excited to take this powerful document down to the location of the infraction and get my free Nacho's BellGrande (sans meat of course), but first, I wanted to share my victory over "the MAN" with the world. I eventually took a picture of myself with the letter and planned on posting an entry here before cashing it in. Well, the slacker in me took over and I procrastinated. I took so long, in fact, the the letter expired. No Nachos for me. To make up for it, I made sure to use a Q-Doba 2-for-1 coupon on THE DAY it expired. I feel better.
G
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