Monthly Archives: April 2008

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Brazil priest car­ried aloft by bal­loons miss­ing
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hun­dreds of helium party bal­loons was miss­ing Mon­day off the south­ern coast of Brazil.
Res­cuers in heli­copters and small fish­ing boats were search­ing off the coast of Santa Cata­rina state, where pieces of bal­loons were found.
Rev. Adelir Anto­nio de

Welcome to finals week

I’m work­ing until mid­night tonight. Then back behind my desk at my day job at 8:30 am. I like my jobs, but right now I’d really rather be home, clean­ing and sort­ing. I brought home a full set of almost 40-year-old dishes to use at home, which are old and attrac­tive enough that

This isn’t working.

I have to get up early for work, and my body still doesn’t quite under­stand this. “I thought we were still in grad school!” it whim­pers, shiv­er­ing. “Can’t we go back for five more min­utes?”
“No!” yells my bank account.
Morn­ings are not pleas­ant around here. They require three to four alarm clocks, one

Shirtless

Why are the good ones always printed on yel­low? It’s even library-themed.That’s hap­pened with a lot of my other favorites that they’ve done lately, too. I haven’t ordered dur­ing the $10 sale in a long time, pri­mar­ily because they haven’t done any­thing in col­ors I would actu­ally wear.
Even if they weren’t ugly

Ewwww

This was tomato sauce at one point. Um…at least we know that this brand doesn’t put strong anti-fungal chem­i­cals in their prod­ucts? There must always be a bright side.
We’ve started clean­ing out the fridge more often since this inci­dent. That’s never been one of my favorite chores.

13 years later…

They’re doing some­thing with ELS. That build­ing has been sit­ting and rot­ting since 1995 and is one of the last of the fraternity/private soci­ety houses to be ren­o­vated at Hamil­ton. It was a bus stop and occa­sional meet­ing space dur­ing my time there.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEE (and my mommy)

[Num­ber redacted] years ago today, a 4 pound, 7 ounce baby girl was born in Tup­per Lake, NY. She grew up, moved to Syra­cuse, got mar­ried, and 27 years ago today gave birth to a 4 pound, 11 ounce baby girl. That girl in turn grew up, moved to Albany, but has not

Bowling with a bit more authority than you’re used to

I have sort of a crush on John Oliver.
Is it the dim­ples, the glasses, the accent, or the slow-motion fake bowling?

Def­i­nitely the slow-motion bowling.

Warm weather makes me thirsty.

I for­got to bring my water bot­tle in to work today.  I usu­ally drink at least a liter of water, and I leave it half-full in the freezer overnight so I can have ice water all day.  I get very grouchy if I can’t sit and sip my water all day at work, espe­cially as

Random childhood memory of the day

Brzostek’s has a Web site! They were orig­i­nally based in my home­town of Bald­winsville, and when I was a lit­tle kid we used to go to their antique auc­tions to look for glass­ware deals. I didn’t think that they did auc­tions this far east.