Cavities hurt.
Not just the ones in one's teeth, mind you. Nature abhors a vacuum, and I'm no exception.
Right now, there's this cavity between my arms and chest, that only Amanda can fill. She won't be here until Friday, so it'll have to hurt until then.
But oh, it hurts. :\
(no, this has nothing to do with the ab strain at the gym Monday night)
-KIE
Hi.
I finally got the opportunity to watch Fireproof over the weekend. Let me say two things about it:
1) This film is a must-see for anyone considering marriage, or even in a long-term relationship. Yes, it can happen.
1a) I don't love Amanda because I get or even expect anything in return. I love Amanda because I love Amanda. (If you don't understand the previous sentence, you haven't found "The One" yet.)
2) Kirk Cameron has come a long way from "Growing Pains".
In other news,
Dear 52%:
I have a proposition:
Three years from now, if my life and my surroundings are better off as a direct result of Barack Obama being president and his policies becoming law, I will vote for him in 2012. If not, I will vote for the Republican candidate.
Now please quit chanting "Hope & Change" and "Yes We Can." so loudly into my ear. I need to get busy at work.
-KIE
17 years
167+10 hours
1700 miles
2 jobs
11 weeks
130 miles per hour
4 cars
12 roses
13 months
3 revisions to the application
1 testing
...and 14046 registrations
-KIE, who wonders who'll take a gander at the significance of all the numbers at the top.
In 2009, I resolve to kiss Amanda more.
I've only got a moment, so I'll share something that came via email.
CAT HAIKU
You are my best friend,
Person Allergic To Cats.
Let me shed on you.
I leap for a bird
And miss. I pretend I was
Stretching, to fool you.
I'm not sure what this
Was when it was alive, but
Isn't it nice now?
I want out. I want
In. Out. In. Out. In. Out. In.
Are you angry yet?
No, I don't abuse Boots. Why do you ask?
-KIE
For entertainment purposes only.
EagleBank
United States Naval Academy (+3½) over Wake Forest
New Mexico
Colorado State (+3½) over Fresno State
St. Petersburg
South Florida (-13½) over Memphis
Las Vegas
Brigham Young (+2½) over Arizona
New Orleans
Troy (-2½) over Southern Mississippi
Poinsettia
Boise State (-1½) over Texas Christian
Aloha, er, Hawaii
Hawai'i (-2½) over Notre Dame
Motor City
Florida Atlantic (+4½) over Central Michigan
Meineke Car Care
North Ca
I passed?
I passed!
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It's snowing outside right now.
I'm going to be late for work because of SNOW.
SNOW.
(You people up north don't realize how big a deal snow is here.)
-KIE
*takes a page from countless international observers who appeared to have assumed a McCain-Palin victory would have meant 4 more years of backwards podunk politics in Washington, D.C.*
Welcome back to the rest of America, New Orleans.
Louisiana elects the first Indian-American to the Governor's Mansion, and the first Vietnamese-American to Congress. Heh, maybe we are on the cutting edge after all.
I am locking this before discussion begins, but I do welcome the discussion off the pu
Bah.
I tried to force myself to write this entry Saturday night before heading to bed, but then I realized it was 1 AM Sunday morning.
So, this had to wait until I got back tonight.
Let me tell you about my weekend. *collapse*
The fun started awful early, as Wednesday afternoon found me in an auto accident. Nothing major: the other driver (who was in his first accident in 45 years) clipped me in the process of avoiding me. We're both fine, but I still haven't had time to start to file
To the new reader, I would still like to call attention to the original Thanksgiving entry back in 2006. If I get an update on those prescriptions, I will post it here.
In more current news, I have a lot to be thankful for this year. My mother & I will be spending Thanksgiving in Monroe with my fiancée and her family, since my father went offshore this morning. As soon as I can get away from work, I'm headed to Baton Rouge to meet up with my mom to go to Monroe in one vehicle.
Also, I'
Since XM merged its programming with Sirius this morning, all my station presets are out of whack. To top it off, the station it was most often tuned to, is now off the air and online-only.
KIE is sad.
To commemorate a comprehensive post that never happened, I give you the XM channels I had preset, in their order.
XM 32 The Message: In my opinion, this mix is superior to Sirius 66. It's why I was an XM fan before the sports tie-ins. XM 110 Classical Hits: ...because I'm a sucker for a st
I am KIE, and I recognize this.
Seriously, Niki, my hat is off to you. You have a gift I seem to not have been blessed with.
I applaud you, and rejoice.
You too, Smeag.
-KIE
There's a saying in Louisiana that people in New Orleans vote early & vote often.
I haven't learned anything about this "voting often", but I did vote early this time around.
In the off chance that it would influence anyone's vote (which it SHOULDN'T: You were the one paying attention the last 10 months. You were the one weighing everything you heard said by and about the candidates. You formed your own opinion on this landmark election season.), From the outskirts of Chocolate City en
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
Today is launch day for Red Alert 3, and I do not have an advance copy.
In fact, I didn't even know the game existed until this past Sunday, when my brother called me while I was at the airport. (Why was I at the airport? I was getting €310 at a nice-ish rate for some spending money on the honeymoon next year: I have to expect to have passed the exam.)
The good news is that my computer can run the game.
The bad news is that my brother can not.
The worse news is that, in the process of se
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
*looks up from his Civil Engineering Reference Manual to make a comment*
Memo to Red Sox nation:
Your sense of entitlement no longer amuses us, nor does your Game 7 mystique have us in awe. Complain about the breaks you got and brace for being viewed in the same light as the New York Yankees faithful.
You lost.
It's time for parity anyway.
-the rest of the baseball world.
-KIE
Go Rays.
Printed out today, because I just found out that they won't send it through the mail.....
(with many formatting errors...I'm transcribing a PDF as best I can)
Well, I'm official now. Time to start studying.
-KIE
Three points from my first Monday Night Football experience:
1. Ed Hochuli needs to forfeit his white cap. Come on. If that face mask were any more blatant, the helmet would be facing the shoulder. And the "fumble that I'm calling not-a-fumble," please stop rewriting the rule book, oh ye of many words and massive bicep. And none of this patronizing "make up call" business, either. If you're going to jam a team, jam them both halves of the game. Be consistent.
2. Reggie Bush is all that, a
Some recent highlights:
-I saw a summer sausage at Walmart tonight, and was reminded (back me up on this, magpi) that the most random things happen at 1:30 in the morning at LEGO conventions.
-My key chain is marginally heavier and infinitely cooler thanks to Black Six.
-I don't know what the physical therapists are thinking: shoulder impingement or weak rotator cuff muscles can't be related to tendinitis of the deltoid, can they? They do realize the pain is in the shoulder area and not in
Yay, happy birthday to me. 29 & holding.
Despite the goings on in Corvalis earlier tonight, my fiancée got me the best gift: an excuse to go to August, a John Besh restaurant. A lovely little corner (though good luck parking) and THE BEST MEAL I HAVE EVER HAD. Seriously. If you get to go, get the gnocchi, save room for dessert, and GET THE CRÉME FRAÎCHE.
I'm so glad I'd never gotten to eat there before: I wouldn't have appreciated how beautiful the meal is.
If you'll pardon me, I'll
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
I get to play Santa Claus tomorrow.
The company I work for has decided to give $30,000 to its employees this autumn, specifically, $1,000 to each full-time employee. There's a catch, however: the money is not for us.
We've been tasked to give this money away to a person, organization, or cause we deem worthy of it.
When I first got this memo back in mid-July, the first opportunity that came to mind is Marcie, my girlfriend's sister: she was recently diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and that's
