Ever wondered how many calories you burn cleaning your house? How about a game of lawn darts? Or unicycling?  Or synchronized swimming?

Well. Now you can look it up.

Thanks, Mr. Ed.

I’m off to scrub some floors on my hands and knees.

My coffee, that’s what.

After cleaning out my coffee maker with vinegar three times (and yes I rinsed it out afterward) and then throwing away said coffee maker (obviously it was limed beyond saving) I took Anne’s advice and got me a free Senseo Coffee maker off the interwebs. Okay, I paid $15 for shipping but a $15 coffee maker is a $15 coffee maker and this one makes pretty damn good coffee. Or… it did make damn good coffee after I figured out what the real problem was.

Our water tastes like butt.

My brother (who will eternally live in diapers and be 2 feet tall in my memory) is going to be graduating from the University of Minnesota with a degree in EE on May 9th. He’s also got a job interview in California on the 2nd.

This just boggles my mind.

But then I’m still trying to absorb the fact that his voice has changed and that he sports a five o’clock shadow by noon.

Congrats, bro. You are teh awesomest of all us kids.

Now quit making us look bad by comparison!

100%ALCOHOLIC

I don’t know if I should be proud or if I should join AA.

h/t@Petey

I wish I could come up with something more original to post, but nothing is coming to mind.  I’m too busy reading.  Plus these Triscuits are going so well with this Leinenkugel’s Red Lager… *nomnomnom*

“This stupid little thing, it’s infectious. It has only two chords, it doesn’t even change for the bridge. It implants the melody in people’s minds - it just sticks in there. That’s gotta be the secret. It just keeps on going. People come up to me at jobs and tell me how happy it makes them,” Kames said. “You get a song like this once in a lifetime.”

Farewell Mr. Kames. Your “stupid little thing” will live on at weddings and Bar Mitzvahs for all eternity.

h/t@T1G

Love it.

A bit of swag that begs to be purchased and displayed.

When we moved into this apartment I donated four boxes, packed to overflowing, of books to the Plattsmouth library.

I still don’t have enough book shelves to provide homes for all of my books.

And today, my friends, I went and bought more. It’s because of people like me that library cards exist, and yet I haven’t gotten around to getting one yet. My transcription courses are held in a library, and I haven’t gotten around to getting a card yet.

Anyway, I forgot to bring my recommendation list with me so all I got was Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, and a couple Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. Nobody recommended Terry Pratchett, but I went and got them anyway. Because how can you go wrong with Terry Pratchett? And, all right, I also forgot what all you guys came up with. But I promise I’ll bring the list with me next time.

And I’ll get a library card. (<—That was my six, by the way.)

P.S. Found this at the bookstore. “Eating Star Wars chocolate, I am.” (another six! I’m on a friggin ROLL)

P.P.S. You’re a genuine geek if you not only caught the reference, but knew that Dagobah was missing an ‘h’.

P.P.P.S. Yes, I realize I’m incredibly sexy. *coughchokedie* Actually I thought that merely holding up the candy bar in front of the webcam would be obvious and boring.

to T1G:

Thinking about it. Will post later.

SWEET!!!

I can now play oldschool DOS games until my little heart’s content.

Sadly, the Zork trilogy is no longer available as Activision isn’t allowing free distribution anymore. Oh well, there’s always my old friend, Hitchhiker’s Guide.

P.S. If you’ve finished this game (as I did one summer when summer was synonymous to ‘three month period with no pressing obligations’) then here are some really fun things to try.