While I could throw everyone a curve and explain something I learned in statistics, I won't.
I've taken quite an interest in the Chef Jeff Project, on Food Network. I think it's quite admirable to see an entrepreneur to put his company at risk to aid some unfortunates, and also inspiring for half a dozen Gen-Y'ers to buck the cycle they've known only, and aspire to something greater, something outside their environs.
Of course, I volunteer this with a caveat: I know nothing of growing up in
Observation:
It's an odd place to be, on the precipice of doing a comparatively great deed, and know that in the grand scope, it is merely a bandage over a gaping wound.
Makes one wonder what good doing the deed at all will accomplish.
I take solace in that the commission of the great-yet-insufficient deed is not mine to dictate: I am merely the instrument. Or, will be the instrument.
</necessarily cryptic>
Back to the grind. Perhaps a new recipe, er, a borrowed recipe, la
Week 11.
Time for the final push in Fantasy Football.
The Moss Bluff Cruisers are coming off a debilitating 88-52 loss at the hands, er, hooves of the Poplarville Stallions. Now tied with the Stallions at 5-5, the Cruisers are mercifully only two games behind the Kenner Kastrators, thanks to an upset turned by the Touchdown Titans the same weekend.
But the hopes of a losing streak in Kenner do little to dispel the bleak outlook for the Cruisers, as week 10 also saw the end of the season f
Forgive me for not posting this 28 hours ago: I didn't have time before running out my brother's door in Baton Rouge.
Forgive me for not posting this 14 hours ago: I had a splitting headache (which hasn't quite gone away yet).
The PE exam was quite similar to the FE exam.
The ones I got, I feel supremely confident about. The ones that required books that I don't own, or the one I left in Metairie (The AASHTO Design of Pavement Structures (AASHTO Green Book)), I confess that I took blind s
I mentioned earlier this year (because I couldn't get it together last year) that Amanda gave me XM Satellite Radio for Christmas. She got me a receiver & antenna, an FM adapter, and a 30-day subscription. While I'm content to listen to WBSN or WODT whenever I'm around New Orleans, and can generally stomach KLove between Baton Rouge and home, the only thing I'd need XM for is baseball games.
See, I'm as big an MLB fan as Amanda is an NFL fan. (This is why she has Sirius, not for Howard Ster
Somewhere out there in the vast nothingness of space
somewhere far away in space and time
Staring upward at the gleaming stars in the obsidian sky,
we're marooned on a small island
in an endless sea
confined to a tiny spit of sand
unable to escape.
But tonight
on this small planet
on Earth
We are going to rock civilization
I am a bad person.
Today I received a letter from the Louisiana Department of Revenue. Apparently, the server connection reset when I e-filed my state taxes last year meant I did not file for the 2006 year.
This makes me a very bad person. Nigh a felon, for a slam-dunk case of tax evasion.
A dentist in Slidell recently was convicted for tax evasion. Refused to file taxes for about 9 years, was fined something like $400,000 (in addition to the taxes he never paid) and sentenced to 10 yea
Posted a week ago, but I still wanted to call attention to it here, as the BBC tends to swallow the mediocre quickly.
Argaius and his topic.
I'm not going to ask for glowing reviews if they're not warranted. In fact, I can't really promise I'll do much MOCing, regardless of feedback. I'd just like to get a feel as to how this is. And if it's "mediocre", I can handle hearing that.
Ms. Hedge-Morrell issued an apology in the paper today. She said she wanted to set a good example for the st
This entry was typed this morning at my closet/office at the Joseph S. Yenni building, but not entered here at BZP because internet access is heavily restricted.
Okay, got a weekend schedule sorted out with Amanda.
She'll get here Friday afternoon, and head home, through Covington, Tuesday morning. (Covington, to interview for a job). This is after she tests for the TSA at the airport Monday, at 1 PM.
Which leaves me with the daunting task of finding stuff to do Saturday evening/Sunday afte
More crazy email!
Mind you, I don't live in Florida, but I have evacuated and not evacuated in front of hurricanes before: I can identify with just about everything, except house insurance.
I don't own a house; I rent.
I don't know about you, but I nearly passed out from laughing so hard when I first read it.
Personal news:
I GOT A KEY TO MY APARTMENT! WOOHOO!
Maintenance ended up having to change the deadbolt because the keys in the envelope didn't match the installed deadbolt, but
I can't exactly say that I'm a fan of Semisonic, or any of the other bands who may have covered the song "Closing Time", although it is a very appropriate lyric at the moment. We have just gotten back from a whirlwind trip to NOLA, only to be thrust into more acceleration. It is the endgame of my time in Morris. As of 12:30, my wife & I now own (well, mortgaged) a house outside Covington, Louisiana. Yesterday, the Army Corps of Engineers completed the dredging beneath the new bridge, widen
For the first time in 7 years, 337-842-0361 is not my cell phone number.
My wife was receiving unwelcome phone calls in the middle of the night, so we had our numbers changed.
After 4 years in New Orleans, I finally have a local phone number in the 504 area code.
Oh, and married life? I don't think I can answer how it is: it's too early to have set an honest-to-goodness routine.
-KIE
I have seen the future of bandages.
Last night, I scratched my left pinky on an exposed, unfiled screw hole leftover from a chair in the choir room at church. It bled, but I let one of the photocopy-of-the-hymnal sheets of music soak up the blood.
Wasn't much.
Today at lunch, I stopped in at Walgreens and bought a box of ActivFlex bandages by Band-Aid. With a foil box and clearly stated 10 bandages for $5, I figured this was not cost effective. However, I rarely break my epidermis, so I fig
Brandy is officially due in 0-2 weeks. I am authorized to ask Michael, from now until birth, when he calls me if this is "The Call."
Just putting the rest of you on notice.
Oh, and if any of you feel so inclined, pray for my mate [in the context of European/Australian english] from college, Earl: he was in a car accident Tuesday, and apparently the seat belt severely injured his pancreas, sending him to the ER and then ICU halfway into a diabetic coma.
This was posted Wednesday at wired.c
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
<21 seconds of city street ambience>
<19 seconds of random audio clips, interspersed with radio static>
...it doesn't matter to me
Hey, I'm in the Caribbean
(I'm in no hurry, yeah)
In my Caribbean dream....
Picture me just lying in the sun
with the radio on
And nothing has to get done
Yeah, this reggae music is fun
rhythym of the island
Happiness comes sneaking up on me
from a serious place
There's not a serious face
On any day of the week
Dancin' with my left fe
That coffee discussion I mentioned yesterday? It's become the "Chicory Conflict," and is in danger of escalating into "Coffee Wars 2007".
DEII has purchased, or leased or something, a couple of commercial coffee-makers, to replace the coffee pots & coffee makers we seem to go through. One of the neat features of the new coffee makers is the multiple Thermos-style coffee pots, allowing different brews to be hot simultaneously. You've probably seen these things at the continental breakfast
Fantasy football draft couldn't have gone better, in my opinion.
For one, I was the only one who didn't draft with the aid of alcohol, so that may be to my benefit.
First, the rules:
12 team league (3 4-team divisions)
14 rounds.
Must have 2 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 4 RB-WR flex, 2 K, 2 D/ST on the roster. TE are considered WR.
Must start 1 QB, 1-3 RB, 3-1 WR, 1 K, 1 D/ST.
Scoring:
6 points for all TDs (Rushing, Receiving, Passing, Return (D/ST))
1 point for every 50 yards passing
1 point
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
I want a Pavarotti voice
'cause I'm a scary Connick
A solo show with the philharmonic
No fake Monet
Hey the real Van Gogh
A Seventeen, Cover Girl, Vogue, Cosmo
(Woo hoo hoo)
It's a beautiful thing (Woo hoo hoo)
To be loved by you (Woo hoo hoo)
Oh that'll be enough to get me through
It's a beautiful thing
I'll take the Rockies gift-wrapped
or the Grand Tetons.
Add a truckload of those cherry bonbons
A '54 fire red collector's car
A doggie-bag trip to the money super bar
(Woo
197¾ lb., 24.8% body fat
Ugh.
This week has been terrible.
Sunday, I come to the office before church, and start the design storm runs for Houma & Cleary, and those finish. I go over graphs with Rob Monday and we went over the graphs for Helios/Galleria (the part of this project that will be its undoing because it's taking so long), and, in the interest of time, we're calling it done. I go to start the design storm runs Monday morning, and in the middle of the night Tuesday mornin
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
Ten thousand views. Or functionally close to ten thousand views. Wow.
I only wonder how many of those views were me, trying to draw attention to this blog. Probably 70% of 'em.
One day, I might have as many views as Dok has comments.
One thing I hadn't mentioned I'd picked up over the weekend was a trio of insect bites: left Achilles tendon, left shin, right thigh. I thought they were mosquitoes, but they're now red & blotchy like an allergic reaction to fireants. Which is odd, becau
My my, what have we here? So much dust; so many events; so much life has happened here, I should think I ought take a moment to catch you all up. However, that moment is not immediately. Expect more soon.
No article about prescription "I don't need sleep anymore" pills.... but that article is still in the archives from last year.
No, what I learned recently is that complacency in a young relationship is pretty toxic.
Happy Thanksgiving, guys & gals.
-KIE, still not an uncle
