Archive for January, 2009
Ricardo Montalban
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20090113
I’m gonna jump the shark tonight and confess that I’m pretty friggin down about this surgery I’ll be having in a couple of hours. It’s not that I’m scared. I’m not scared one bit, to the extreme of just about not caring if something does [Read More]
Win a 2009 calendar!
I’d been meaning to order some pet calendars for the past month-and-a-half. I finally got it done just now. Want one? Be the th unique individual to leave a comment on this entry, and you’ll get this 2009 calendar of Aremid, Zellouisa, and Herman absolutely [Read More]
Harris Teeter and Pumpkin Pie Yankee Candles
One exciting element of my day was going to the new Harris Teeter at Guess Rd and Horton Rd (the “Willow Haven” store as opposed to the now-closed Willowdaile store). I spun a wheel to win a coupon for free Harris Teeter ice cream, a $5.29 value! (And now I will [Read More]
Two days until basilic vein transposition
One of those fun health updates…I called it a “basal” vein transposition in the video, which is wrong, as anyone who knows anything about biology obviously knows (which I don’t and don’t want to know, because it all makes me quite queasy when I [Read More]
Uncrappy Prius
I have meant to add a quick note mentioning that my Prius turns out not to have been crappy after all. It did not need a new hybrid battery or anything else exceptionally pricey, just a new 12-V battery. It was still a painful episode, but the mechanic said my car was in [Read More]
The Mediocrity of Kate Hudson
This scathing post by Chez on the awful-sounding new film Bride Wars (11% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) led me to the following geeky exercise: That graph is really too kind to Kate Hudson. If you couldn’t guess, the mere notion of Kate Hudson is a pet peeve of mine. [Read More]
Howard’s End
I never fully got on the Obama train, as much as I believe he was still an infinitely better choice than McCain. It didn’t help that Obama/Biden never sent me one of those round magnets that I should’ve gotten following my post-Biden-pick donation. I don’t [Read More]
U.S. Economy circa January 2009
The storm metaphor is just too easy, but this is what I saw when I left work today, from the parking deck of American Tobacco, overlooking University Ford. Apparently, Durham has the lowest unemployment in the state of North Carolina, at just 5.8% compared to 7.9% for the [Read More]
2008: One Last Trip to Wasilla City Hall
I like year-end lists but haven’t made time for my own. I’d like to do some sort of retrospective, but looking back generally isn’t something that’s terribly helpful for me. Nonetheless, I want to note that one of my enjoyable reading experiences of [Read More]
