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#4816 – topical quotes

i’ve been in a good happy mood the last few days, what with having fun and making photography-money this last weekend, and going on vacation to the eastern regionals this coming weekend. plus the o’s CLOBBERED the yankees 12 to 0 tonight, even though they plunked miggy and honeybear. boo! but aubrey huff hit a grand slam and and we gave up only 2 hits, so that’s all good.

i’m describing visiting folks like ocarina, gaiadea, geminid, evilyn and shleb (among others) at randolph-macon womens’ college back in the day…

me: “so then there’s me in this dorm room with all these women and they’re all ‘hey, let’s start measuring each others’ chests!’ and i’m all ‘yessssss!’, but they’re all ‘glenn, let’s start with you!’, so i’m all ‘nooooooo…’. after they measured me they said ‘glenn! we don’t know how to break this to you… but you’ve got a negative bust! your chest is concave!”

bruno_boy: “well, i guess you’ve got what every pirate wants, then.”

me: “huh? what’s that?”

bruno_boy: “a sunken chest!”

me: “…”

“what every pirate wants?” oh, i hope not. and speaking of bad piratey things, bruno_boy also pointed out to me that “the pirate movie” is on comcast on-demand until sometime in october:

i’m tempted to have a crappy-movie night one night where folks come here, booze it up and watch “the pirate movie”, but 6 or 7 years ago when i last showed people “the pirate movie” they dragged me out of the house and locked me out after the movie. (in my defense, we weren’t old enough to drink then, and i didn’t realize it was that crappy since i had originally seen it when i was in 5th or 6th grade when a friend of mine was in the town theater’s production of “the pirates of penzance”.)

coworker: “man, today has been really crappy.”

me: “you should regulate.”

coworker: “how would i do that?”

me: *shrug*

coworker: “regulate, huh? maybe i should take an immodium a.d.! that’ll stop it from being crappy!”

the neat thing about working with a bunch of african-american females about 10+ years older than i am is that they think it’s hilarious when i start saying stuff like “regulate” or that things are “off the chain”.

i can’t wait for tomorrow to be over… i don’t need a vacation from work, but i need a vacation from a customer of mine — she’s been emailing me 2 to 3 times every day for the past week about the status of her transfer. you’re probably not going to be able to follow this pretty well, but this is what's happening…

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#4812 – the bachelor gourmet

i was in the mood for something a bit more “gourmet” than chef boyardee ravioli out of a can, so i cooked up some of this tortellini in a bag (boil water + add tortellini = done!) like what we had for our “gourmet dinner” during our camping trip up in new york. cooked up some ragu sauce to add to it, and it’s pretty good! so i’m having tortellini and corn for my veg (that “local corn” sign i saw yesterday gave me a craving).

i figured with my gourmet dinner that i’d have some of this penguin wine that mom and dad got me from their camping trip when they toured the winery. i started to worry that i wouldn’t be able to get it open when i realized that it’s actually sealed with a cork, and i couldn’t find a corkscrew in the kitchen, and i knew that the swiss army knife i have doesn’t have a corkscrew attachment. lucky for me i found right away another pocketknife i got for christmas as a stocking stuffer that had a corkscrew on it — dad had picked it up at some environmental conference he was at, so the apartment’s corkscrew says “groundwater analytical” on it and also has a bottle opener and a phillips-head screwdriver.

of course, i don’t have any wine glasses, so i had to decant my wine into a pint-sized guinness pub-mug. yes, that’s definitely a bachelor gourmet dinner.

eta: you know, after talking with cynicalscribe yesterday about christopher walken’s “the continental” character (see my icon) and how i haven’t yet thought about what to be for halloween… i think if i shave off my krebs-beard and find a lounge-jacket and offered people some cham-pani then i could pull that off. or if i shaved off my mustache and kept the krebs-beard then i could go as maynard g. krebs! hm, tough decision.