Congrats, T1G. You’ve surpassed even my own mother in comments! Keep it up.

(Quote from ‘Das Boot’, RDRR)

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3880087

HAH! Score one for the little guy.

The story in a nutshell:

Guy’s neighborhood goes HOA and requires him to pay to park on the street.

Guy pays for the pass, only he forgets to display it before parking on said street.

Guy’s car gets booted.

Guy puts dollies under his car and wheels it into his garage.

The waiting game begins.

I laugh.

(h/t @ fraNk)

P.S. If you have the time, it’s worth scrolling through the thread looking for all the updates from this guy. Some of these pictures are funny as hell.

WWII as a MMORPG

I needs me a set of these. To complete my Wanton Sex Goddess image.

Something you may or may not have known about me: I was once a synchronized swimmer.

It was the year 1992, and I was fourteen years old. We had recently moved back to Phoenix, Arizona after about five years in Oregon and my sister and I had transferred to the Arizona Aqua Stars from the Tualatin Hills Synchro Club.

After hours of tinkering around with my computer and some DVDs that my father gave me, I now have my very first YouTube video to prove it.

BEHOLD! Me, in all my gangling, awkward, teenaged glory. I’m the really pale one in the duet and in case you still have trouble picking me out, my father was nice enough to put my name briefly over my person just before the routine started. Also, if you recognized the last song in the performance, but couldn’t remember where it came from, hereyago.

And you can laugh all you want, but those skillz got me through the swim portion of boot camp with ease.

This is really interesting. Let me know what you all think.

h/t @ Spambot Willy

Oh, the wild turkeys we have…

Okay, I’m playing with a bunch of new WordPress plugins I just downloaded and I needed a picture. The turkey happened to be outside my window at the time.

Ah! I did find a really good plugin to share. If you like fun buttons that do things (and I know I do) then download TinyMCE Advanced. It allows you to drag and drop buttons into your WP WYSIWYG (that’s the “Write Post” section, dearies) editor.

(Update!) I thought I’d add an update here instead of starting a whole new post. Yay me.

Well I ran four miles tonight. Again. But it’s still taking me almost an hour to do that so I’m kind of miffed with myself. My best run time was mediocre (I had a 26:21 3 mile) and that was about two years ago. I’m also not sure how far I should trust the gages on the treadmill as they are notoriously inaccurate. What I should really be doing is looking up a route to run on Google Maps and hitting the road but the idea of running in public still has me feeling a bit embarrassed.

Aside from a small stack of Pringles and a glass of OJ, I completely forgot to eat today. I do that sometimes. Anyhoo, I’m glad I did forget because Husband surprised me with a dinner out to Carlos O’Kelly’s after my run.

I believe I just undid every bit of those four miles. And then some. We’ll see what kind of damage I did at my weigh-in on Sunday.

o_O’

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.

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.