Pants on a Cat

That’s just tasteless.

Phil — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:20:29 +0000

Not a joke, shockingly: the NY State Gov’t has a bill in progress to outlaw the use of salt during food preparation at a restaurant. Lest you think I’m kidding or somehow misreading things, here’s the actual and complete text of the bill, including the justification behind it. PROHIBITION ON SALT; RESTAURANTS. 1. NO OWNER OR OPERATOR [...]

Sometimes you’d just rather not know: Pt. 2

Phil — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:48:04 +0000

I just got back from my meeting to discuss last weekend’s MRI results. First, the good news: minus the bone fragments all over the place, my ankle hard structures are actually fine. No polio-victim brace necessary. Now the bad news: Of the 5 or so tendons that hold the ankle together, three are damaged and one’s [...]

“Tick, tick, tick,” says the Clock.

Phil — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:02:10 +0000

One week into the engagement and the planning engine has been thrown into gear. We’re looking at late August/early September, but that’s going to depend both on venue availability and people availability. Certain people (and I will refrain from naming names) would be advised that telling us that some dates would actually be a major problem [...]

Criminal: someone who doesn’t obey the law.

Phil — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:12:06 +0000

You’d think that would be obvious to everyone, but you’d be wrong. A campus gun ban will do absolutely nothing to prevent any sort of school shooting unless the campus PD plans to frisk everybody as they cross the campus border. I’m really disappointed with people who don’t seem to grasp the whole “criminals, by definition, [...]

I can’t even think of a snarky title.

Phil — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:11:03 +0000

I’m engaged. Yes I am. As of Saturday 11:30p. Update: Story below the break. The 23rd was our three-month anniversary. Being as we were unable to celebrate it on the day, we planned for a date night on Saturday. …a secret surprise date night. I told Lia that I’d plan it and that all she needed to know was that [...]

Bad news, Good news.

Phil — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:01:38 +0000

Bad news: I crashed my car in Estes Park last weekend Good news: Nobody was hurt, no other cars were involved. Bad news: I had to limp a very broken car home down a canyon. In the snow. With a donut-spare up front. And a badly hurt control arm. Good news: I survived, got the car into the [...]

Oooh.

Phil — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:17:52 +0000

I think tonight might be the last night I’ve got to tape those protective plates over my eyes! That’d be exciting – I dislike having to scrape the left-over adhesive off of my skin in the mornings.

Occasionally you’d just rather not know.

Phil — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:35:55 +0000

I went for X-rays at the Orthopedic Center yesterday to try an figure out what was wrong with my foot – my suspicion was a stress-fracture from skiing a few weekends back. Reality was a little worse. Back in ‘97 I had an “incident” with a trampoline that resulted in me having a foot the size [...]

LASIK update: +4 days.

Phil — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:58:44 +0000

As reported on Saturday, my vision is presently 20/15 which is pretty darn good. My night vision is probably about 90-95% of what it was with glasses and should improve somewhat in the weeks to come. Here’s the summary of how the whole thing went down. T -1:00:00 : Took one pill of Xanax (a drug [...]

Unsupervised!

Phil — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:01:20 +0000

I took an unsupervised sunglasses shopping trip today and found a couple pairs that _I_ think look good on me. First up: the Smith Optics “Parallel Max“. Interchangeable lenses; polarized; comes with two additional sets of lenses. Next: Wiley-X “Airrage“. ANSI-rated for high-velocity impact (rock to the face on the motorcycle); removable foam gasket (wind block); light-sensitive [...]