Nylabones are gross. My dog would eat them.
I broke my hand once fixing a lightbulb.
2 is remarkable, unless a ladder was involved.
Stanley talking about getting old is kind of depressing.
Oh, also. If it makes you feel less old. I sustained a similar injury when I was about 7. We were having a contest to see who could jump from the highest stair. I did win, which is the important part. Also, x-rays confirmed it wasn't broken.
Or L.?
The blog is aging! Someone should go recruit some fresh-faced college kids.
I think essear has plenty of better opportunities to find and grope college kids than this blog.
And I'm sure I'll be complaining about getting old soon enough.
So I will take the Nylabone coach
And be whistlin' down the wind
So I will take the Nylabone coach
And be whistlin' down the wind
Or L.?
Short shameful confession: I still think of L. as a high school student.
2 is remarkable, unless a ladder was involved
A chair was involved.
Anyway, based on my experience, you'll know if it's broken because it'll be 5am and you still can't get to sleep because of the pain.
12: Opportunities that are squandered.
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises?
12: Finding the blog is the easy part, it's just the groping that's hard.
Finding the blog itself is easy; finding college students there, not so much.
13: And there will be faint laughter from bags of my ashes my kids will keep in the back of their cars for when the roads get icy.
13: And there will be faint laughter from bags of my ashes my kids will keep in the back of their cars for when the roads get icy.
Well, that's an odd vision. Have you been contemplating it long?
And how exactly would you explain this blog to a fresh-faced college kid?
25 not intended to interrupt the vision of 23 (unless an interruption is desired)
25: An eclectic web magazine Titties, hooray!
Spent this week cutting down a dead tree.
Spent $100 this morning trying to use a pull-along and chains to keep from crashing into the roof.
Spent $200 this afternoon paying professionals to fell it away from the house.
No injuries save to wallet and DIY guypride.
A $200 tree removal is pretty cheap. Did they just knock it over and leave it?
And how exactly would you explain this blog to a fresh-faced college kid?
Young people nowadays can understand anything, as long as the explanation is sung to the tune of "Call Me Maybe".
Or in the form of a Tumblr narrated by Ryan Gosling.
30:Yes
Pulled it over from a another tree, and left the clean up to me and the city. Saved $100
We could attract a younger commenter with more frank discussions about the cost of landscaping.
Or how to get those fucks at Verizon to pay for repairs to my retaining wall.
From asst links, and Bill Anschell at a jazz blog Current Careers in Jazz ...funny/sad doesn't even begin to describe it. Long but readable.
gigiwhores, epiphytes, academics
Even outside the jazz arena, jazz Gig Whores, working undercover, populate the music world's ample underbelly: the pianist wearily accompanying a tone-deaf vocalist in a community musical theater production or demonstrating Costco's latest digital keyboard, the bugler announcing post parade at a horse racing track (slyly inserting a Charlie Parker lick disguised as a flourish), the off-camera bassist backing American Idol contestants, the herald trumpeters--dressed in renaissance costumes--serenading department store shoppers at Christmas time, the wedding band leader cajoling guests into a conga line for "Hot, Hot, Hot" (and the six accomplices to his musical crime, barely hiding their disgust and self-loathing), the drummer making "punch-line" sounds for a would-be comedian... Each banking part of his pay to subsidize the day when he might dare to take the jazz plunge, holding his nose with one hand as the other gratefully palms the ample paycheck.
THE WORLD MAKES
NYLABONE BREAKS
Or how to get those fucks at Verizon to pay for repairs to my retaining wall.
What's that about?
I'm thinking about going to FIOS for internet service, but people say sometimes they have to dig up your yard or something (and they won't necessarily make that clear beforehand; they'll just say there's an installation charge, which of course there is, so you just say, Yeah, okay, uh-huh, never realizing).
When I was in NJ I switched from cable to FiOS when it became available in my area, and it was way better. They didn't have to dig anything up, but there was some drilling through the wall to install the modem.
Okay. Relation of any other experiences is welcome. I sort of hate Verizon, you see, but then I also hate the cable company.
Yeah, part of the reason I decided to do it when the guy came to the door offering it, despite his annoying hard-sell tactics, was that I was so annoyed at the cable company's expensive but low-quality connection and abysmal customer service. FiOS was slightly more expensive but way higher quality (faster and more reliable). I never had to deal with Verizon's customer service over it, so I can't comment on that side of things.
Verizon's customer service sucks, sucks, sucks. Earlier this summer it took them two and a half weeks and four appointments to fix my internet ("He stopped by and didn't see you... Oh, you mean he needed to press the buzzer? You should have specified that." and "I'm sorry, it looks like our computer system scrubbed your appointment. No we can't make a new one immediately, call again tomorrow")
I have substantial, forward-pointing bone spurs on my heels. It was quite singular to see them on the X-ray.
38: They just backed a truck into the wall. We have Verizon, but they weren't doing anything for us on that trip.
43: Can/should you get them removed?
Or maybe rotated so they point backward?
I was thinking about getting FIOS but even though I live in the goddamn city it's not available.
I keep switching between Comcast and Verizon but lately stayed with Comcast, I have a relative who's a senior exec there so if I get too pissed about something I can call the super secret executive service line (yes, there really is one.)
44: That sucks worse than their sucky customer service.
47: I live in Arlington, but I can't even switch to RCN for cable, because my apartment building is wired up for Comcast only.
I would like faster internet, but I'll be damned if we're going to get cable in any form, so shitty DSL it is. We are also not eligible for FIOS.
44: You should insist that, when they fix the wall they busted, they have to use bricks that you rent to them.
50: I think that you can get cable internet without getting any cable tv, but they charge a premium for it. Alternatively, whenever you get frustrated by DSL speeds, you can say "At least it's not dial-up."
We only have Internet and phone from Comcast, no cable. We'd get rid of the landline too but Internet alone is about the same price as Internet plus phone.
At least at work we have a 10Gb external connection so I could watch plenty of Olympic coverage from there.
I'm not happy about the wall, but I've had good luck work their customer service. It would probably only take a couple of hours to reset the block. If they'd have left a note or something, it wouldn't be a big deal. If a neighbor hadn't have told me who it was, I'd have had to find a teenager to blame it on.
I watched a lot of olympics at work.
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I suppose I can't really complain too much about the Bears game being on TV right now, but I could do without the Redskins Network announcers who are (understandably) in-the-tank for Washington. For some reason I find Redskins fans especially irritating, probably because they're so thick-on-the-ground here.
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53: We use Vonage for phone service.
I'm watching more Columbo. Kim Catrall has been working for longer than I've been able to read.
43: Sux. It took me two years and some nerve shots to get over just one. Good luck.
Shatner's character is the most shittacular murderer I've seen on Columbo yet.
Or how to get those fucks at Verizon to pay for repairs to my retaining wall.
Ask them for a "bundle" where they repair your retaining wall and also install some garden gnomes.
24: It's been a family in-thing forever, thought up during a long-ago discussion about burials, cremations, etc. "Be useful in death as in life".