197¾ lb., 24.8% body fat
Still sick. *cough*
Not as miserable, though.
Yes, there is hope in KIE's world. After 10 wayward years, the Italian Chicken sandwich has returned, if only for a time, to Burger King.
If any of you have seen the Dexter's Lab cutscene on Cartoon Network, where Dexter is munching away at an endless burger pyramid? Yeah, that's me with the Italian Chicken sandwich.
Must...engorge...myself....
-KIE, who wishes they'd bring back the French for a little bit
Nope, not redoing my blog. I've found a nice groove here, and I will keep it in said groove. May not be a daily thing to update, but I definitely like where I sit here.
The rework is where I have to re-address some comments for something that, again, someone doesn't want to do themselves. And they're not paying me any more to do it...
I would be mad and flatly refuse, but I'm too nice a guy to do it.
While I suffer through this moral quandry, I offer for you to discuss the purported best
Boo.
NASA's picture of the day
Here we come to All Hallow's Eve. It means many things. The day before November. Shard of the Dead (in Ultima Online) Fall weather Start of the restricted waiver claims for Week 9 FFL Spooky get-ups and/or set-ups. 7 days until nationwide elections (Robert Jindal looks to win La. District 1 going away.) the birthday of the New Orleans Saints (who lost in a none-too-pretty fashion Sunday) But, probably most important of all:CANDY I'm not connected enough to go
197½ lb., 25.1% body fat ()
Last night, I finished VNOLG. Level 48. Had waaaay too much equipment to go through. Bought a stone ripper just before the little quest for the stone ripper. Man, I wish I could recoup some of those stone shards. (I played as Nuparu, so stone shards went to my weapons.)
12 Attack
14 Defense
21 Technique
A high Technique makes the game a lot easier: Defense becomes less important when you're dodging the attacks, and Attack rating can take a back seat when you
Something Dallas quarterbacks saw fit to do with the football several times last night. Because of this, the Cruisers managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat at the hands of the Touchdown Titans, 48-43. Next up, the probably easiest stretch of the schedule. Looking ahead, the 3-4 Cruisers are early 8 point favorites at the 1-5-1 Kenner Knights. Another one of the company's principal owners.
Speaking of turning over....this is a reprint from the Sunday, October 22, 2006, edition of t
With this being my 47th blog entry (my favorite number, incidentally), I figured it was time I went ahead and divulged my favorites, official and non, of the approaching 600 blogs here.
By no means is this list complete. This is just what I found on the first 5 pages.
FAVORITED BLOGS
Puffins Puffins Everywhere
The Life of Lady K
Toaraga's Toa-Bloga
Captain's Quarters
Omi's Rush
From the outskirts of Chocolate City.... (Hey, it's not vanity: it's a way of finding mine quickly!)
Nikir
198½ lb., 24.2% body fat
Oh, what a weekend.
Friday evening, I got to go eat at Rotolo's Pizzeria (not the one in Columbus) in the [French] Quarter with a group from UNO and then go to a game night at a church on Paris Avenue. There were four of us playing other-than-Balderdash: A Tulane student, a NOBTS student, myself, and an architect (the seminary student's husband). We played a round of Clue (I was dealt 3 rooms and a suspect, was nowhere near the solution when the accusation was made.)
:wakeup2: This was in the paper today: Bear with me, here.
Emotion is a good thing. It makes the colors of one's life much more vivid than without.
Anger does have its place in life. There are times and situations that warrant, nay call for righteous indignation.
But please, temper that anger; don't let it temper you.
A lot of things happen during the teenage years. Physical, emotional, interpersonal, spiritual...the body is in a unique brand of chaos.
The young Mr. Anderson has now ef
I need a break. A day off. Something.
Heck, I'm drinking a Coke and it's only 10 AM!
Brandy & Michael's wedding (Saturday) went great. I don't know how many of you have been in weddings before, but this was my first.
No miniature groom. No ring bearer. No groomsman. Just straight to Best Man. In a way, I'm honored. And yet in another way, I feel gypped.
I can say exactly how I feel gypped: I'd never been in a wedding before, so I had no idea how much standing was involved. A third of t
The Cruisers got absolutely manhandled last week. Now 2-3, three games out of the division lead and a game out of the wild card (with a very rough stretch ahead), my season is just about done.
Maybe I should just concede that I don't have a good team, I won't have a good team, and I should just finish paying off the season and dump what good players I have. </self-destructive>
Seriously, though: I had Chase Utley, Roger Clemens, Mike Mussina, Akinori Otsuka, Travis Hafner, Jason Giambi
I've said it before: I'm a licensed Engineer Intern in the state of Louisiana. (My registration number is 20327, if anyone wants to look it up.) In maybe a year or two, I will have been employed as an engineer long enough to be eligible to take the Licensure exam, and become a licensed Professional Engineer in my own right. Until then, my title is EI, not PE.
One of the requirements for maintaining a PE license is continuing education. In Louisiana, the requirement is 30 PDHs (Professional De
Sam Houston High School defeated Patterson High School last night, 21-20. Patterson scored a touchdown with 30 seconds to play, but without a functioning placekicker, they were forced to go for the 2-point conversion. I understand the quarterback option was stopped in the open field inside the 1.
However, I left with 2½ minutes to play in the third quarter, with the score tied at 14-14, when it came to me: I really didn't care how this game ended.
Last night was a cross-class social. Members
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So.
Much.
Football.
I know you guys are getting tired of it, I can just tell.
In the fantasy realm, the Moss Bluff Cruisers are 8 point favorites, visiting the Cookie Crunchers, a fellow rookie team. This game will be over by 7 PM tonight, so go ahead and follow the details here.
Or at least in about 4 hours, when the games start.
Me, I will actually be in attendance of one of the real games: Tampa Bay at New Orleans.
Will be the first time since th
I'm packing a soft bag right now. Headed home this weekend.
In the fantasy realm, the Moss Bluff Cruisers are 22 point favorites over the visiting Poplarville Stallions, but then again, we all know it will be closer than that. While the Stallions are a very weak team, I've got some pretty poor matchups this week. I like to think I'm going to get back to .500 this week, but it's not money in the bank (something I seem to have little of recently).
Yet, that's not this entry.
Tonight, it's
Right now, as of midnight ET, September 29, 2006
NL Central standings
St. Louis 81-77
Houston 81-78 ½ GB
Need at least one (preferrably 2) more from the Brew Crew.
Gonna pull something I'm reaching so hard.
-KIE
(Bonus entry) as of right now, 23:19 GMT, September 28, 2006
NL Central standings
St. Louis 81-76
Houston 81-78 1.0 GB
Oh Lord, please oh please oh please oh please.....
Three words: (help me out here, Kohaku & Than) GO BREW CREW.
-KIE
This week will be a record 6 blog entries, I can tell. More coming tomorrow & Saturday.
Just folded 70 22"×34" maps of Huntwyck Village yesterday & this morning. Huntwyck is out the door...well...it's out my door. It's in the conference room, 12 3" binder being filled via assembly line, to be taken to Baton Rouge tomorrow.
But I don't have to see it for the rest of the month, so I'm happy.
Right now, I'm reconstituting a manhole survey form from April that mysteriously vanished som
Vocabulary phrase of the week
Who Dat?: a rallying cry of exuberance and jubilation in reference to the New Orleans Saints franchise of the National Football League. Not to be confused with "Who Dey?" of the Cincinnati Bengals franchise, though it's unclear which predates the other. usage in the following chant, heard many, many times just yesterday evening:
Also: a fan of the New Orleans Saints with a propensity for initiating said chant with little advance notice, though certainly not with
Well, either Marilyn or Matt Hasselbeck gift-wrapped a victory for the Cruisers this weekend. 81-70 is the final, and I was a 10½ point underdog. But I'm not about to complain or gloat: Jimmie gloated, and Tim, the commissioner, came up with this story to switch kickers and wide receivers after the fact, creating a tie between the Touchdown Titans (Tim) and the Caribe Sharks (team Martinez), with the Titans having a player left to play tonight.
Marilyn still said she wanted to start T.J. Who'sY
Observe the manhandling of the Cruisers, in their home stadium, versus the Laplace Gators. Peyton on a good team, as if I ever had a chance. 0-2 becoming 0-3 on the way to 0-5.
That's not what hurts today though. Although yes, knowing I'm putting down $110 all told to get walloped week in-week out is an ego blow, there are other things.
Like, say, Friday night, when the whole of Napa Valley turned out to take out yon Über-Monster-of-the-Fortnight, the Void Shadow.
Took 3 hours to kill. A
Just taking a few moments from what I really should be doing with the Huntwyck maps to give a quick civics lesson.
Kids: remind your parents to vote. Vote yourself, once you get registered. Repeat every November, or don't ever complain about your elected officials.
Saturday, September 30, there is a special election in Louisiana. Filling the Secreteary of State and Commissioner of Insurance (a notorious position in the state government: 3 of the last 4 have served or are serving jail sent
197½ lb., 24.5% body fat
It's been over a week since I've posted, and with good reason:
HUNTWYCK IS DRIVING ME UP THE FREAKIN' WALL.
Don't believe me? There are shoeprints on the wall beneath my 2005 Astros NL Champion pennant. I can take a picture tomorrow.
There, now that I have that out of my system, time to recap the last 5 days...
The 2006 ASCE/ACI Louisiana Civil Engineering Conference and Trade Show was, well, a bust in my book. Several steps back from the last conference I att
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,
196 lb, 22.7% body fat
There are times when I get upset about not being able to blog what's on my mind, simply because I don't have time at work.
But today is not one of those days. Thanks to the AFL-CIO, today is a national holiday. So, I give you, all 15 of you (give or take), the full form of my weekend today.
Friday, my parents donated the old TV in the living room to me. It's not that old, but I have no cable TV service, so all I get to watch is white snow, and not the Team White Sno
...currently reached Category V status....
...projected to cut a path from Grand Isle through Covington....
...Katrina will drop an estimated 20" of rainfall....
...the rain has stopped, but the water keeps rising, AND NO ONE CAN FIGURE OUT WHY....
...people are cutting through their own rooves amid 20 foot flooding....
...all power and gas has failed....
...estimated 10,000 dead or missing....
You guys had to realize this post was coming.
A year ago today was a very, ver
