3 Week Plan

Toni is taking off for 3 weeks, which is going to suck, but it will give me a chance to get a bunch of stuff done on the house and elsewhere. Here is a run down: Outside the house: Tear up the suckers in the front garden Order and lay 10 2.5 cubic yards of gravel – approx 60 cubic feet Patch the grass in the front yard Back fence and garden hanger thinger Finish landscaping all the excess...

I finally saw the “Dark Knight”

I finally had a chance to go see the Dark Knight, and at the IMAX to boot. Toni, Jon,  Jon’s lady friend Katie and I went to the 10:30pm sold out showing at the Minnesota Zoo last Friday night. Aside from the obvious omnipresent hype over the movie, I listened to Episode 34: Give Batman a goddamn lozenge, which thankfully didn’t offer any spoilers, but did have a few critiques that I...

Propeller Launch Week Reflections

It is 11:30CST on Thursday. I should probably go to bed, but i feel like I need to do SOMETHING. This is my first moment really to breathe in over a week. At work, the fruits of nearly a year and a half of labor came to coalesced this previous Monday at around 1AM CST  – the New Propeller.com Site HAS LAUNCHED! Check out the site, it is pretty cool. For those of you who are don’t...

The infamous Darrett Balnce

When I was younger, my dad got a call one evening from some telemarketer. Getting fed up with getting cold calls, he decided to screw with one of these guys and so he gave the fictitious name of  “Ralphie Garrett”. Then I hear my dad say “uh yup, middle initial is ‘E’, first name spelled R-A-L-P-H”. heheh. So then for years later we got junk mail for...

My Comic List

I went home this weekend and grabbed all my comics from when I was a kid. I’m glad I had the stain of mind to keep them bagged and boarded. Anywho, I think I am going to start pawning them off since I don’t really have any need for half of them. Therefore, I am going to start putting together a list of my comics for later use for when I Ebay this stuff. Uncanny X-men 171 – $64-...