Marty August 2nd, 2008
Or working ON the weekend, as the case may be. But the skies are bright, the weather is warm and Shari no longer has a kidney stone so it’s not a bad place to be, even if the house needs to be dealt with. So, I’ll be out making the house look prettier, feeding the birds and eventually putting in some hours at my real job so that I can go to NC in 10 days without any guilt.
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Marty July 16th, 2008
that I’m a dumbass. In the immortal words of “That 70’s Show”:
Eric: I don’t know. You know, it seems like bad things are always happening to me, like I have bad luck or something.
Red: [slowly] Son, you don’t have bad luck. The reason that bad things happen to you is because you’re a dumbass.
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Marty May 16th, 2008
Well, we had our 5th and 6th softball games this week, and at best I had a mediocre week. The lines:
Game 5: 0-3, 0R, 0RBI — 10C, 5PO, 2E
Game 6: 1-3, 1R, 0RBI — 12C, 9PO, 0E
Tuesday’s game was probably the worst I’ve ever played. I got good contact on the ball but hit it TO someone every time. And defensively I made two big errors and one costly mental mistake. We still won, with no help from me. Continue Reading »
Marty April 13th, 2008
I feel like this emu right now - pulling my hair out after having waited until the last minute to do my taxes. You know - more than a little disheveled, with that glassy look in my eye.
Taken at Noah’s Ark, a great little refuge that takes in unwanted or illegal wild animals and tries to give them a better life, located near Locust Grove, GA. You can learn more about the refuge here.
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Marty April 11th, 2008
Or are these two eerily similar? I’m just sayin’.
Marty March 8th, 2008
We had just gotten home from grocery shopping and I was making some brunch when our neighbor came to the door.
“Um, do you know that you have a branch through the back window of your car?”
Needless to say, I didn’t. It turns out that a large branch from one of our oaks had landed across the entire top of my car - this part through the back windshield, and another section that dented the roof in 3 places in the back and 2 in the front, both of which cracked the front windshield, too.
Oh, did I mention the driving rain we were having at the time?
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Marty March 5th, 2008
…and a yo ho ho and a bottle of Advil.
Last Friday, some township workers knocked on our door to ask me to move my car to protect it from the blighted oak tree they were going to cut down in our neighbors yard . But I asked them if they wouldn’t mind leaving some of that wood on the planning strip so that I could get some firewood out of it. Continue Reading »
Marty January 3rd, 2008
Well, another year has past and we’re on the cusp of hitting 2008 in stride. And as usual, everyone will make resolutions about all of the things that they will do better in 2008 than they did in 2007. BUT, how did I do on the goals I set for THIS year? Let’s take a look: Continue Reading »
Marty December 28th, 2007
I haven’t been around much, I know, but I had to put something up about this. Yep, I’m now one of the privileged folks who has enjoyed the wonders of MRSA, or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, thanks to a spider bite about a week ago. Continue Reading »
Marty November 7th, 2007
Today I did my first jury duty - well, at least I reported for it. I didn’t end up getting called to serve on any juries, just sat around for 4 hours and then received my certificate for being a good boy and sent home. Or work, in my case. So, I got paid to read my book and do crossword puzzles, which wasn’t so bad. Continue Reading »
