The end of September is always a favorite time of the year for me. Not only because September 25 is my birthday, but because Olive Garden always has their "never-ending pasta bowl" special. All you can eat pasta and sauce for $7.95$8.95...I think. For $2$1.50$1.95$2.95 more, you can get meatballs or italian sausage (like the pizza topping) or chicken with every fillup.
I like pasta. I'mI was OCD over my wire-mesh colander, because I like my pasta. I tinker with cans of tomatoes, fresh onions
Ladies & gentlemen, my fiancée, Amanda Weems.
Plan C evolved and came to fruition over the course of about 54 hours, from mid-day Thursday through Saturday evening. A too-clearly drawn line to December removed plan A (where we first met), and Ike washed away plan B (Dickens on the Strand, in Galveston, TX).
Suffice it to say, the giant cheque in the back of the car was all I needed to distract from the jewelry box in my pants pocket. After one presentation, I deftly (for as much as A
Yes he did and no one had better let him out of it!
Wow, BrickFest was a blast. It's all mish-mashing in my head right now, so I'll make with the quick-hits before I forget everything. 50° F (10° C) is an overnight low, not a daytime high, for March. Geez, Oregon. It's spring. Get with the program. The scent of a Randazzo even before the bag is opened is as hypnotic as ever. TLG has to open a LEGO store at some point along the Gulf coast. I'll drive to Gulf Shores if necessary; I just can't
Hi.
Wow it has been a long two weeks.
Well, nearly two weeks: I just got my computer back online last night.
In any case, I hope to catalogue the past two weeks in multiple entries, starting with BrickFair.
Thursday saw me flying off to Washington, DC, ahead of the inbound Hurricane Gustav. Setup went fairly well, given the help I had. (Thank you, Roa & DV, for being my stand-in helpers, as well as bringing the great MOCs.) As anyone who attended the open fair Saturday or Sunday
This evening, former LSU and Michigan State head coach Nick Saban takes the Miami Dolphins to Pittsburgh to play the Super Bowl XL champion Steelers.
In other words, the NFL season starts tonight. And with it, countless offices, pubs, and bars become distracted for the next 4 months.
Why? Two words:
Fantasy Football.
My office is not immune. Nay, far from it. The Moss Bluff Cruisers host a "team" from Kenner whose name I can't type with a straight face.
"But KIE!" you no doubt inquire,
The title is from a sound bite in Red Alert 2.
I figure, since everyone is doing it, I ought to have a Q&A entry in my blog. That is, in case anyone wants to know more about me.
If no one asks any questions, I'll know I've scared everyone off. Either that, or I have overexposed myself here.
With that said, ask away! Every question will get a response, and most will have answers.
-KIE
No seriously. You, BZP, have spoken. And my blog is more dated than the 19th century.
Thursday morning: 4.6 out of 5, 27 votes
Friday morning: 4.4 out of 5, 28 votes.... mathematically, this could only have been from a 1-star rating
Saturday night: 4.3 out of 5, 29 votes.... again, this could have only been from another 1-star rating
.....
I never realized what I offered was so, very, lame.
So, very, bad.
Do I use too many words? Do I not volunteer for questions or something? What
I hope today is the day.
Election Day today. I've not voted yet, but I will during lunch. LA House District 1, and another slew of amendments. Bobby Jindal still looks to win going away, so I want to turn my attention eastward.
ATTENTION: ANYONE RESIDING IN ORLEANS PARISH, OR ON THE WEST BANK OF JEFFERSON PARISH.
PLEASE vote today.
PLEASE vote for anyone other than the incumbent, William Jefferson. Vote for any Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Socialist, whatever, just please fi
And so the BrickFest 2007 MOC rush begins!
*cricket chirping*
...okay, I figured it'd be a little bigger than it is right now, but hey.
In any case, I have found some tasty packing material.
I doubt I'll be able to bring mayhaw jelly this year, because mayhaws aren't ripe yet, so the jelly is very expensive right now ($6.50 for a 16 oz jar, instead of $4.00).
(Why is it expensive? Simple: it hasn't been successfully cultivated yet. What mayhaws there are, they are grown wild. Thus, it
Really.
Must Cartoon Network put anime AFTER Futurama/Family Guy? I can't function on 5½ hours of sleep during the week.
At least I'm seeing the end of the GITS:SAC 2nd Gig. When I'm not sleeping through it, that is.
-KIE, who wants Saturday to be the day. Really.
I'll tell you why.
I admit, I probably have gotten out of hand the past couple of days. And while the nationwide returns last night were a bit bluer than I would've wanted, I do feel as though I did my part.
I count 9 seats in Congress in 7 different states from yesterday's entry. (Yeah, I'm counting you, Lady K, Makutaman, and Mikerahk.) Thank you for voting, or wanting to vote. And this is where I tell you why.
I come across many people, both in person and online, who complain about the
I'm not posting my weight, if only to say it's too much.
Right outside my office door, on the counter across the hallway is the coffeemaker.
There is both significance and irony in that fact. The significance is that there is often congregation outside my door. The irony is that I do not drink coffee.
I don't know...something about coffee beans has never stroked my taste buds well. Nasal passages, sure: I can appreciate the aroma. But I've never acquired a taste for it, and caffeine just d
Amanda & I went to see The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian tonight. Well worth the wait.
Even saw some cosplayers.
Or, more likely, just dressed up in an old Halloween getup. For shame.
Anyway, we're both looking forward to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, for whenever it comes out.
-KIE
Well, I alluded to it earlier, and I even told GN when I picked up his Bounty Hunter over the weekend, but thar she be: my first set review, first time in the public spotlight on BZP.
Pity I don't have time to bask in it. Not if I'm going to finish this watershed deal so I can take tomorrow off to pack for Brickfest.
It's 1:40 PM. Office closes in 4 hours, and I have at least 6 hours of work left to do on this, and that's assuming it goes smoothly. Curse you, ArcMap 9, and your inability t
Yep.
Confirmed it for me.
I want to post a quick reply specifically to ChocolateFrogs: I don't have any MOCs (outside of my BrickFest badge) to post, for three reasons.
1) I'm missing a good chunk of MOCcable pieces: outside of 3 8556 sets and a pair of Nui-Jaga, most of what I have are loose Kanohi. That, and the color selection in 2002 was rather limited.
2) I lack the creativity to MOC. I like to construct the sets, but I can barely embellish here and there, like the half-pin on the bac
Kiss me out of the bearded barley
Nightly, beside the green, green grass
Swing, swing, swing the spinning step
You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress.
Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight
Lead me out on the moonlit floor
Lift your open hand
Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance
Silver moon's sparkling
So kiss me
Kiss me down by the broken tree house
Swing me upon its hanging tire
Bring, bring, bring your flowered hat
We'll take the trail marked on your fathe
...took his merry ol' time making his grand debut.
Hello, little man!
6 lb. 9 oz., 19¾ inches
Date of birth: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Time of birth: 14:59 CST (40 minutes before the time this entry was published)
Proud father, worn-out mother behind them.
-KIE, finally an uncle
Another short entry, as I have errands to run.
Two major points to address from the past couple of days:
1) Brandy is now 4 or 5 days overdue.
2) I'd best not ever own a Nintendo Wii of my own: I lack the self-control to stop playing.
-KIE
30° 00' 25.16" N
90° 11' 53.10" W
7:03 AM CDT this morning (approximately 80 minutes ago).
Just a traded peck on the cheek, but I'm still on cloud 9½.
-KIE
Godspeed, Amanda.
I'd wanted to post during Brickfest, but I couldn't handle the felt-like-fragile keys of Omi's laptop, and I never really had time to think it out. It was busy, and it was a blast.
Friday, I was picked up at the airport by a family I'd met through BZP, but not on BZP. We went out for Vietnamese food for dinner, well, late lunch, as I hadn't eaten since my last blog post. Vietnamese cuisine produces the ABSOLUTE BEST spring rolls in the the world. Just enough butter/fat in the frying, just the
One of the most thrown-out-there quotes is "Art imitates Life; Life imitates Art". There's a measure of truth to it, too. For instance, I give you a scene from both Bleach 19 and 211: Bakudō 99. It's funny, in that the first time it is introduced, the ultimate manner of restraint is rendered insufficient. In a similar manner, I've seen intangible things grow lives of their own, even recently. That the hype around some things can grow and build and compress and concentrate and...compress, it is n
No, that's not McNeese's football team's ranking in the I-AA er Football Championship Subdivision polls.
That's what number I am upon registering for BrickFair this morning.
Washington DC, here I come.....
...in about 10 months.
-KIE
204½ lb., 24.0% body fat
Where were you five years ago today?
I remember where I was.
Five years ago today, it was not Wednesday. It was Saturday.
It was Saturday and I had a whistle.
I was a basketball referee for the Upward basketball league at the church I attended, First Baptist Church of Moss Bluff. I wasn't that good, and I'm still not that good at it. (I'm prone to getting caught up watching the game instead of, y'know, actually refereeing it.)
Anyway, the games lasted fr
