- ARCHIVE / July, 2004
- stuff-n-stuff
So yesterday I hear this incredibly loud and really really bad sound coming from the front of my car. It happened when I turned, when I didn’t turn, when I accelerated, when I slowed down, when I coasted. I dropped it at the shop last night. Today they called and gave me the low down: [...]
- Time Flies When You’re Bloated
One week. Can you believe it? I look over at the baby countdown clock and am amazed that it only says 7 days! It was almost 200 days when it first started ticking away.
It seemed like the first 20 weeks of the pregnancy crawled by. Every week seemed like a milestone. The 1st sonogram - [...] - I Feel Girly
I spent $2.99 yesterday on a little wooden picture frame that has a pair of molded pewter baby shoes glued to the top edge. The black and white photo inside is of a black girl - probably around seven years old - swinging on a swingset with the world around her blurred to infinity. I [...]
- Tick Tock
Just got back from a walk around our hilly neighborhood. It’s probably 80% humidity at 9:00 p.m. Brutal. Sweaty, swollen feet, achy back, and that’s me - not even my 38 week pregnant wife! Well, we don’t take walks as often as we used to in our courting days, and so we figure this was [...]
- Reading is Fun & Mental
I go through phases of reading books. I really started to read books for the shear enjoyment of it back in college. Before then the only books I read were assignments from school teachers and were rarely interesting and never worth talking about. Since college, I’ve gone into lulls now and then where I either [...]
- Spiderman 2
The process of picking a movie to go see on a Friday night is always a daunting task between my wife and I. I have systems. Lots of systems. All are usually designed with a single goal in mind: Let her pick the movie because if she doesn’t like it she won’t blame me. Rarely [...]
- Typography
Typography. What can you say about Typography? It is the Art of Type. Kerning, tracking and leading. Ascenders and descenders. X-heights and serifs. Roman and modern. Terribly interesting…if you’re like me.
As I think back on my early artistic endeavors that incorporated typography (even if I didn’t know what that word meant at the time) I [...] - Corrugation Nation
I know what you’re thinking - you cynical little so-n-so… you’re thinking, “Cardboard?? Why the heck am I gonna waste my oh-so precious internet minutes reading about some idiot’s cardboard?!?” Well my friend, you shouldn’t. I don’t serve your kind here. Don’t let the firewall hit you on the way out.
Now then, for the rest [...] - Thou Wast the Most Pleasant of Weekends
Well, my hard work in the bathroom paid off. Kate was very impressed with my manly manliness. It was all well worth it.
To celebrate my hard work, we took a drive on Saturday morning down the shore to Manasquan. For those of you that are not familiar with New Jersey-isms, “Down the Shore” is proper [...] - The Bathroom
Success with a capital “S”! From the sanding to the painting to the towel rack mounting, everything went perfectly. What a load off!
I even went the extra distance and replaced the old grungy blinds that were on the shower window with brand-spankin’ new ones. I feel so accomplished.
I think the only real project I have [...]