Archive for June, 2003

7 adults + 8 teens + trees + bugs + ropes course = fun

Monday, June 30th, 2003

so…I’m back. You didn’t know I was gone.
I spent the weekend with Erika and 7 of her young women at a ropes course in NH. I had a great time!
The ropes course was run by Outdoor Explorations and hosted by the Browne Center. I had never been through a full ropes course — I had […]

mmmm…forbidden donut

Monday, June 30th, 2003

When your wife says “close your eyes and open your mouth” what do you do?
Well, I ate a forbidden donut!!!
I didn’t enjoy it, really! I swear!

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Friday, June 27th, 2003

so…we just got back from dinner, and I turned on the Sox game…I thought I was going blind when I saw the score being 19-1 in the bottom of the 4th!!!!!
the Sox had a 14-run 1st inning!!! daaaaammmmmmnnnnnn!!!
edit: I must be watching the game on a twilight zone TV: Doug Mirabelli is playing first base!
edit: […]

open a window or something!

Friday, June 27th, 2003

There is a foul smell coming from the cube next to mine. I don’t know if it’s my coworker or the food he’s eating, but mixed with a poorly working AC unit that is blowing luke-cold air in my direction it’s about enough to make me leave early!

and in the news…Strom bites a big one

Friday, June 27th, 2003

do you think that there is any connection between Strom Thurmond dying and the Supreme Court’s overruling of the gay sex ban?
Strom was a racist, but I’m sure he’d uttered the words “gay sex?! Over my dead body!” before.
Either that or he decided that it was time to get with the program, and the decided […]

and in the news…Bush learns about the phone

Friday, June 27th, 2003

Bush launches do-not-call list to stop telemarketers
‘’Unwanted telemarketing calls are intrusive, they are annoying, and they’re all too common,’’ Bush said at a White House ceremony.
Way to get on the bandwagon, W. Saying that Bush had anything to do with this is like Gore saying he invented the internet.
People began registering just after midnight. As […]

mmmm….boycotted donut

Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

so..you’ve all heard: Massachusetts got a Krispy Kreme. In Medford. Whoopity doo!
I enjoy donuts. However, what I saw last night has made me even more of a lifelong Dunkin Donuts man…
There was a line of cars, a quarter mile long! Snaking out of the parking lot, on the Rt. 16! And there were people lined […]

say it with me now: re-tahd-ed

Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

Husband asks to be prosecuted for wife’s crime
A husband thinks he should be prosecuted for his wife’s failure to stop driving while she breastfed their baby on the Ohio Turnpike.

Asked why his wife did not stop to nurse the child, Barnhill said she didn’t want to turn “a five-hour trip to Michigan into a seven-hour […]

from spring…

Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

right into indian summer?
it’s at least 87 degrees, according to boston.com, and weather.com wants me to know that it feels like 92 degrees…
I’ll tell you what it feels like: HOT!

noooooooo!

Monday, June 23rd, 2003

oh, wait….I wanted to say:
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!