Dairy Highschool

And today...

salutary \SAL-yuh-ter-ee\, adjective:
1. Producing or contributing to a beneficial effect; beneficial; advantageous.
2. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health.

I Find Granola
Delicious, Salutary
And It Helps Me Poop

TMI?

Raelian How-To

I liked the word from Monday. Like to hear it, here it 'tis...

titivate \TIT-uh-vayt\, transitive and intransitive verb:
To smarten up; to spruce up.
And it sounds kind of naughty...

Eat Elegant Foods
Drink Naught But Fine Wines And Port
Titivate Before

Daily How Cool

I can't decide if I want to write some Haiku's for the words I missed over the weekend. Am I lame that this excites me so much?

jovial \JOH-vee-uhl\, adjective:
Merry; joyous; jolly; characterized by mirth or jollity.

Makes Me Jovial
Sunshine Upon My Shoulder
Makes Me Weep With Mirth

A John Denver rewrite, Japan style...

Daily Hiccup

imbue \im-BYOO\, transitive verb:
1. To tinge or dye deeply; to cause to absorb thoroughly; as, "clothes thoroughly imbued with black."
2. To instill profoundly; to cause to become impressed or penetrated.

I Fear The Cold Wind
Imbue House With Winter's Wrath
Stop Freezing My Wife

I just talked to Cindy - we're having a storm. Power's out in TL, and its about 20f out, with a decent windchill. Sounds like it's freezing back at the homestead. The power's flickering here - we've had the lasers shut off a few times now. Fun, fun fun.


Here's a picture of Buddy Hackett with a young simian friend. Thank Bryan for the inspiration for me to find this long lost gem (I think I slapped it on the cover of a paper I wrote in college once).

(Yester)Daily Hyrule

Okay. While I wait for today's WOTD, here's yesterday's from dictionary.com. Last chance, dictionary.com!

malaise \muh-LAYZ; -LEZ\,
noun: 1. A vague feeling of discomfort in the body, as at the onset of illness.
2. A general feeling of depression or unease.

General Malaise
Five Days Straight At Nine To Five
Am I Grown Up Yet?

Daily High? Cool.

As of this writing, dicitionary.com hasn't posted a WOTD in two days. I can't live my life like that. So I'm going to make the switch to...

Merriam-Webster Online WOTD

pixilated Â? \PIK-suh-lay-tud\ Â? adjective
1 : somewhat unbalanced mentally; also : bemused
*2 : whimsical

Me? Pixilated?
Truly I Am Not, Good Sir
Just Ask The Rabbit

Ziggy Played Guitar

When I got home yesterday, there was a box in the kitchen.

Okay, here it's in the living room...

What's inside? The only part of my birthday that worked out (tear). (Okay, there was the book sale at the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival, Cindy got me some other books off of my amazon.com wishlist, and I got to watch, dog in tow, half of the excruciatingly boring Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Parade). Why it's a new...

I've got a helper.
Sturdy guitar case! Yay!

But inside of that? Its a new...

There she is!
(To me) 12 string of good quality.

What's the first song I played on my new G-Box, you might ask?

Seminal 12 string fave "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi, of course.

On a steel horse I ride...

The second song?
Space Oddity, followed by a little Ziggy Stardust.

Forgive the hair...I'd just gotten out of the shower, that's not the look I was going for.
So hop on over and I'll serenade you with the many jangly octaves of my new axe.

And there's this:

No Haiku For You

Dictionary.com didn't put up a word of the day today. That's a bush league way to run a website. Bush league, I tell you!

So the streak ends at two straight days, but at least it wasn't me that dropped the ball!

Planet Earth Is Blue, And There's Nothing I Can Do

spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective:
1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.
2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love.

Becoming Spoony
The Car Behind Crowds Bumper
Tailgate Love In Snow

That is why they tailgate, right? The snow makes the metal machines feel randy, and they just can't be kept off of each other's backsides? Oh wait, no. It's because there's a lot of assholes that drive up and down route three, and for some reason they like to get more hazardous whenever the road's a little slippery.

BTW - We're now getting the snow that the city had over the weekend. Winter is back in the ADK's, but for how long, I ask you, how long?

Daily Haiku

Okay. So I can prove to everyone that I'm completely inadequate at maintaining a schedule, my friend Bryan and I are going to start writing daily haikus on our blogs. I'm sure it won't be long before I forget all about it and it becomes the bi-monthly haiku, but here goes.

Word of the day:
concupiscence \kon-KYOO-puh-suhn(t)s; kuhn-\, noun:
Strong desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
(From Dictionary.com)

Searching For Stout Beers
My Concupiscence Boundless
Blah. East Coast Lagers

Thank you, and good night.
Anyone know if I used that word properly?

Ground Control To Major Tom, You've Really Made The Grade

Things I've been doing lately that are NOT blogworthy (Like anything I do is):

• Reading scifi/fantasy paperbacks
  
• Watching The Family Guy DVD's that James sent me
• Endlessly playing the solo from "You Shook Me All Night Long" in the vain hope that constant repetition will give me decent lead chops
• Working
• Getting angry every Wednesday that doesn't hold a new episode of Lost

Things I've done recently that approach blogworthy:

• Eh, I did watch the SuperBowl (Boo, referee's...)

But I'm still here. Still alive. Still kicking.

Anyone in the greater TriLakes area can come wish me happy birthday next Saturday - if we can find a babysitter (What is it about people not returning calls?) Cindy and I are going to go out to the Cascade Cross Country Ski Center (broken link - pay your internet bills!) for their full moon party - snowy trails with bonfires and beerkegs, paint me happy. Otherwise I'll be giving an unplugged performance in my living room to several empty cans of Guinness.

After watching the SuperBowl pregame, and SNL the night before, my hero of the moment right now is Aaron Neville.

Oh yeah-ee-ah-oh-ah...

Hooray for silky voiced androgyny and facial tats! Hooray!

Perhaps I'll be playing "Don't Know Much" next Saturday...But you won't get to hear it unless you come over...

I Have No One To Blame But Myself

Well. As I lay in bed this morning, Connor let me know that he has now learned app. 6 words. The first five words were - Mama, Dada, E-ten or E-tee ("Ethan"), Cah (Car), and Cop-Car or Cop-Car-Sih ("Cooper" or "Cooper Sit"). The sixth word?

"Ha-Hah."

As in:
"I just broke something intentionally now I'll look at my dad knowingly and say "Ha-Hah." Dammit! Too much of The Simpsons in this house...

Okay, back to my sinus infection.

B-Wizzard In The Mother Humpin' Hay-owse

A few pics. But none from Christmas, really. If anyone wants to see the pictures from the holidays, just look at the Flickr, man. They're all there.

For the last two years, Skip's gotten me a Cabela's gift certificate for Christmas. My order came today...

Sweater, cap, headlamp - all for under $65. I'm a savvy, savvy bargain shopper. Yes, that's a wool sweater -my clutzy atse can't have a cotton or poly sweater for more than a day without snaggin' it. The giant nose zit and chapped cheeks were free, and arrived a few days ago.

If I was good with GIF stuff, I would have made one of those retarded moving things out of those two pictures, instead of having two pictures posted. Know what I'm sayin'?

While I was trying to take pictures of myself, I had a monkey tugging at the camera's "Oh S#!%!" chord:

Oh, he was all smiles, the little devil.

Here's the only holiday pictures I'll post, as they need the most explaining.


The best part of having lamb for Christmas dinner? The Greek(ish) leftovers you get to have for lunch. Lamb-wrap and coleslaw, yeah.

Later that week...

I know that it looks a lot like a giant caterpillar that's been laid on one side and roasted, but what it really is is a pork loin that I butterflied in a spiral sorta thing, then wrapped some stuffin' all up inside of, and it came out...Gloriously.

I Know

I've got tons of pictures yet to blog, most from Christmas. But work has been either too busy or not busy enough to put them up (Interesting dichotomy, no?), so I'll leave you with a verbal update instead.

After temperatures in the 50's at the end of last week, we have hit official bitter, ass freezing cold recently. The windows in the shop and the upstairs are covered with a thick layer of frost on the inside. Metal doorknobs on exterior doors are also covered. My hands are cracking and bleeding from the lack of moisture - not to mention that I got a good coating of capsaicin on them de-veining/seeding some peppers yesterday whilst making delicious tortilla soup. When I took the dog out this morning, I hated life, and the snow on the ground makes the gross Styrofoam sound/feel underfoot. But I actually kind of like the cold - it's a novelty to a Seattleite like me.

I've got a few short, silent movies of the kids that I can send out - e-mail me if you want them and I'll send them. Mostly Christmasy stuff, I think.

I bid you adieu.

Meme Thing

Keith tagged me for this - I posted with it once, but wasn't happy with what I came up with on the fly so I deleted it. Hopefully no one read it. Here's the new version. Forgive me if I stop short of five...

1. I speak fluent gibberish. Seriously. I should record myself in the car sometime - especially if there's someone driving like an @$$ nearby. I can do a great stream of consciousness swearing bit that sounds like I'm cursing in Italian or something. But you'll never get to hear it - I don't think it would work at all in front of anyone else.
2. For whatever reason, since I met Cindy, neither one of us has lived anywhere that doesn't constantly need a light bulb replaced (or the entire fixture). Our last college apartments, apartments in both the Seattle area and Saranac Lake, and now the house...Always replacing bulbs, some of them only last a week or two at a time. Must be the wiring? Or maybe the wife and I exude some resonant EM waves that damage things like that?
   
3. My only ambition in life is to get through it all as easily as possible. That's a pretty attainable sounding goal, right? And yet, most of the time, I feel like I'd have more luck if I were trying to become president or an astronaut or something. Not that I'm complaining...
4. The number one thing that pisses me off the most are people who are rude, insensitive, or mean for no reason. I can actually laugh at the rest of it - and I'm talking about some things other people get really offended by (no examples, this is a family blog), most of the time. But people who are selfish and pigheaded to others with no good reason to behave that way can go stab themselves.

That's all I've got. Hope it helped...Anyone else that I know that blogs is now tagged to share five random facts about themselves with the world - since there's only two or three of you besides Keith, you should know who you are.