• Well I could learn to cook vegetarian
  • Or take fashion workshop
  • Meditate, calculate
  • Learn to knit a tank top
  • Yoga, hula
  • Clogging, jogging
  • Walking on a tight rope
  • Take a correspondence course
  • And learn to make my own soap
  • Jumping on a pogo stick
  • Standing in a wheat field
  • Going on a snipe hunt
  • Gonna keeps my eyes peeled
  • Take a little time to really decorate my door
  • And change my hair to black and then I'll dye it back orange
  • Underwater taxidermy
  • Shopping for a suitcase
  • Peeling tangerines while placing second in a sack race
  • Lion taming, online gaming
  • Try'n to win a prize fight
  • Appear in a talk show
  • Dress-up like a water sprite
  • People go to classes to learn how to fold these swans and this is what you do with them?!


    List of good bars

    Another list into the void

    Wally's - where alcoholics drink.  $5 fills a Big Gulp with anything you want and the only entertainment is the other drunks.

    Claddagh Cottage - it would feel like Ireland except it keeps reminding me it's an Irish bar.  Beer/wine, but good beer and nibbles.

    Piper's - used to be a ghetto Chuck E Cheese.  Most interesting thing about it.

    Hanson's Shoe Repair - probably my favorite.  Go on an off-night.  All drinks cost $12 but are really cool.  Dress code and secret location.

    The Pharmacy - really really hidden, pricey, fun, mostly a restaurant

    The Cloak and Blaster - beer/wine, crappy food, video games, tabletop games, geek central

    The Geek Easy - the inspiration for the Cloak, keeps changing it's focus, hidden in the back of A Comic Shop.

    Don Julio's - great margaritas, restaurant

    Gators - bit racist, good nibbles

    Big Daddy's - smokey, karaoke every night

    Stardust Lounge - used to be more tightly themed "hep cat" but still good

    Aku Aku - above Stardust, true tiki bar, plays "Endless Summer" sometimes on mute

    Wall St Plaza - the Mall of Bars, owned by one company, lots of differently styled bars

    The Lodge - go straight to the back and up the stairs to your own bar and people watch from the balcony

    Finn Henry's - an Irish pub for downtown, serve pudding shots (which are better than Jello shots)

    Lizzy McCormick's - an Irish pub for downtown, does not serve pudding shots

    Harp and Celt - the downtown Irish pub that's not for downtown, less noisy crowd

    Milk District - a string of bars including Sportstown (the smokiest bar with the biggest beer variety and entertainment variety), the Bull and Bush (?) (a British pub for serious dart throwers)

    The Smiling Bison - a gastropub for people with handlebar mustaches and refined palettes

    Redlight, Redlight - a beer bar for people with handlebar mustaches and unrefined palettes

    Will's Pub - if it's all white, it's all right

    BART - Beer, art for sale, arcade of classic games, but a bit cramped

    Tanqueray's - a bit smoky basement with the best live music and a good layout if you want to watch the music or just hear the music

    Stigma - so much fun, but so empty, smokeless because it's a tattoo/piercing parlor too, with dungeon props to play with and stripper poles

    The final rundown before bed


    1. Facebook
    2. Texts
    3. Photos
    4. Email
    5. Calendar
    6. Air Conditioner
    7. Shopping List
    8. To Do List
    9. Bank Account
    10. Health Insurance
    11. Amazon
    12. Weather
    13. Netflix
    14. YouTube
    15. Locks
    16. Check My Goals
    17. Update My List Of Possessions
    18. Facebook
    19. Kindle
    20. Facebook
    21. Brush Teeth
    22. Take Pills

    Favorite Dates

    Hebrew Calendar
    10 Tishrei: Yom Kippur.  Fast one day, be forgiven of all your sins of the year
    25 Kislev - 3 Tevet: Hanukkah. I just love this holiday.

    Christian Calendar
    January 2: Everything Is Back To Normal Day.  The last day of the "holiday season" that drives me nuts.
    Third Monday in January: Martin Luther King 3-Day Weekend. Usually great Florida weather to boot.
    January 31: Everything Is Back To Normal Day.  The last day of whatever "one month" experiment I committed to on January 1.

    February 2: It's Groundhog Day Again. Get to binge watch Groundhog Day and is the shared birthday of my two best friends, Phil and Jaron.
    February 14: Valentine's Day. I love my wife and get to make a day dedicated to that.
    Third Monday in February: Presidents Day 3-Day Weekend.  Good Florida weather and a chance to travel for my birthday.
    Saturday to Tuesday In the Seventh Week Before Easter.  Mardi Gras starts on Saturday if you're local to New Orleans.  I'm local-related, so it sometimes is contagious.
    Wednesday in the Seventh Week Before Easter to the Thursday before Easter. Lent is a great time for focus even if it's not my religion.
    February 20: My birthday.  I am awesome.
    February 29: Leap Day.  It feels like you have an extra day like it's a present!

    Random Tuesday in February or March: Everything Is Back To Normal Day/Super Tuesday. When the primaries are really decided and all the ads come down.

    March 14: Steak and Blowjob Day. The flip side to Valentine's Day.  She loves me and makes a day dedicated to that.
    Forth Friday in March: Everything Is Back To Normal Day. Lent ends.

    April 1: April Fools Day. My anniversary with Mrs. Awesome!
    April 10: Mom's Birthday. She is awesome.
    April 15: Everything Is Back To Normal Day. Everyone shuts up about taxes for eight months.

    May 7: Kiri's Birthday. She is awesome.
    Second Sunday in May: Mother's Day. They are awesome.
    Last Monday of May: Memorial Day. Unofficial first day of Summer, which means Florida starts getting crazy.

    June 19: Father's Day.  I am awesome.

    July 4: Observed Meeting Kiri Anniversary.  Not the actual day, just when I have everyone fire fireworks to celebrate it.

    First Monday in September: Labor Day. Unofficial last day of Summer, which means Florida starts getting insane.  (Summer used to have more holidays, but Florida heat burned them alive)

    October 1-31: Halloween. It is a month-long celebration.
    October 24-31: Fantasy Fest. A Key West festival I dream of attending.

    November 1: Everything Is Back To Normal Day. The world hasn't turned full Christmas yet because they're taking down Halloween.
    Second Tuesday in November: Everything Is Back To Normal Day/Election Day. When the new high chancellor is elected and the ads stop.
    Fourth Thursday in November: Thanksgiving. We focus on food, friends, and thanks!  Lovely day.

    December 24: Christmas Eve. I see you shiver with antici-
    December 25: Observed Proposing To Kiri Anniversary. -pation
    December 25: Christmas. Despite my reputation, I don't hate Christmas.  I hate the 60-day immersion into a culture you can't opt out of, that makes no sense, and that you are looked down on if you, not even don't participate, but don't participate enough.  Christmas, as a day with an eve, is awesome.
    December 31: New Year's Eve. I love resolutions. I love the sound they make when I eat them.

    Star Wars non-spoiler thoughts

    So I wanted to talk about The Force Awakens.  No spoilers, promise.  Just talking about music and direction and stuff in general.  But if you want that to be a surprise too, then don't read.



    First off, it's a great movie.  Really amazing.  I'm sure someone will post all the plot holes that I don't see right now one day or Family Guy will do a special but for now it's just about perfect.

    It had a very Avengers feel to it because it was established characters being pulled together with cameos and in-jokes.

    Everything is turned up to 11.  It was like someone took each piece of Star Wars, chose the thing that made it badass and turned that specific trait of that specific piece up.  It was like Star Wars if Star Wars ate Star Wars.

    It has the easiest drinking game in the world.  Every time a stormtrooper makes you laugh, drink.  And every time a stormtrooper horrifies you with brutal Nazism, drink.

    Not about the movie, but I sat next to grandparents who had camped out and seen all 7 movies on their opening showings!  So fun to talk to them.

    The dialog is like Hot Fuzz.  At one point I was telling myself "I won't argue that it wasn't a no-holds-barred adrenaline-fuelled thrill-ride, but there's no way that you could perpetrate that amount of carnage and mayhem and not incur a considerable amount of paperwork."

    I thought it felt like Joss Whedon more than JJ Abrams.  Kiri disagreed.  George Lucas seemed to have nothing to do with it as far as I can tell.

    How does the Wookie get so many good lines?  He doesn't even talk!

    Roughly 14 wild cheers from the audience.  I actually think the characters are silent after each fan service to allow for the outbursts.  Good planning.

    You can expect a lot of Key and Peele skits in the future.  Jordan Peele looks and acts like Finn.  He even sometimes came off like he wasn't a member of the universe, but was sucked in from our world through some kind of Last Action Hero subplot.  It's awesome.

    Funniest of the Star Wars films.  Possibly the most action-packed.

    No big musical score?  No Imperial March.  No Duel of the Fates.  Absent enough that it seemed like a conscious choice to omit.  Maybe JJ thought it would take us out of the moment.

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    Let's see what is the top suggestion for each letter

    Amazon
    Bing
    Chase
    Drive (Google)
    eBay
    Facebook
    Gmail
    HappyClicks.net (Toddler games)
    Imgur
    Joe's Crab Shack (Don't even like them but they eliminated tipping and raised staff wage to $15/hr)
    KittyConvict.com (Jaron linked me to this.  I visited only one time like Joe's Crab Shack.)
    Lowe's Build and Grow (Workshops for boy)
    Merriam-Webster
    Netflix
    Oglaf (Dirty webcomic)
    Papa John's
    Q (No websites for Q)
    Reddit
    Sign-in For Work
    Twitter
    U (No websites for U)
    Virginia Health Department (I once had to look up VA's child seat law)
    Walmart
    Xnxx (Porn)
    YouTube
    Z (No websites for Z)