1967 Spider Man

I have fond memories of renting this show on VHS from the video store by my grandparents house. This is the same rental store which I rented NES games from. In one episode Spider Man is shrunk to the size of a real spider and at one point finds himself avoiding Jay Jonah Jameson's fingers roll-tapping on his desk (like when someone is impatient). From that moment I taught myself how to roll-tap my fingers on surfaces. I don't know why I was inspired to learn the function or why I remember that cartoon being the point at which I said, "Yes, I want to learn to do that. It is amazing. I must learn it now." It just reminds me of how many childhood memories are tied to cartoons.

Thanks Spider Man.

PS - This also reminds me of Italian Spiderman.

I listened to Kanye and accomplished this yesterday. It felt great!


Before


After

I'm sure there's always a place for me in the military.

Just wonderful.

Some photos of recent events

While the maintenance man fixes our cupboard.

Cupboard fixed!

My most unproductive day

Today kind of sucked.

It all started when my alarm didn't go off and I woke up at 10:45 instead of 8:00. I woke up pissed. I missed nearly 3 hours of productivity! This has happened to me a few times and I have no idea why the alarm does not occasionally.

Then I went to the post office to mail some books I sold online only to find out that I could not send books via medial mail in Priority Mail envelopes. So I had to go buy envelopes and return to the post office and a massive line. I decided to send them tomorrow. While I was in the neighborhood I thought I might swing by our local cobbler to spend some Christmas cash on some shoe shining brushes, but the shop was not open on Mondays. So, as of 1:15pm I only managed to trim my beard, shower, and shave...I'm an overachiever.

I came home and started on the next of my tasks, rearranging the cupboard to fit the new dinner sets my parents got us for Christmas. After moving things around I realized we could fit a whole new shelf in the cupboard and drove to Home Depot to find one. Since I would be in the neighborhood again I took the books with me to mail. After 30 excruciating minutes in line (get the right damn box so you don't hold everyone up!!!!) at the post office I was told by the helpful staff at Home Depot that I would not find what I was looking for there. I returned home defeated.

I spoke with Liz around lunch-time and decided to make her a nice dinner with shrimp, polenta, basil and fava beans. Off to Whole Foods, which I was certain would have fava beans. It turns out they had neither fava beans or basil! Basil!!!!! The produce associate I talked to explained that Whole Foods hadn't stocked basil for 5 days. I don't why I bothered, but I walked to Giant Eagle to find the ingredients I needed. It can only be assumed that everyone at Whole Foods went to Giant Eagle as well...no basil.

I did accomplish some things, but not nearly as many as I had hoped. I had a good evening with my wifey and capped off the night with 1/4 of a bottle of wine and WQED's program Pittsburgh N'at. I will sleep tight with the help of a little bit of red wine, hoping that tomorrow I will accomplish some of the tasks I didn't get to today. Hey, I didn't have 'post on my blog' on my list, so I'm a little ahead!

Teetotal - via CREDO Reference

The adverb teetotally is first recorded in America in 1832 (James Hall, in his Legends of West Philadelphia, recorded a Kentucky backwoodsman as saying ‘These Mingoes… ought to be essentially, and particularly, and tee-totally obflisticated off of the face of the whole yearth’); the tee represents the initial t of total, as if repeating it to give extra emphasis to the word. The application of the adjective teetotal to ‘total abstinence from alcohol’ (that is, including beer, and not just spirits) is virtually contemporary. It is credited to a certain Richard Turner, of Preston, Lancashire, who is reputed to have used it in a speech to a temperance society in September 1833.


Word Origins. London: A&C Black, 2006. s.v. "teetotal," http://www.credoreference.com/entry/7906794/. (accessed December 20, 2008).

Blankets are sooooo FRUSTRATING!