Archive for July, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Workout Log for Week of 7/6 (71 miles, 2605 cal, 216 min)
Last week sucked again for working out. I have been eating shitty lately. Time to get back on the bike. I have been considering joining anytimefitness. They have one a long walk/short drive away. Interesting.
Monday 7/7 : 14.34 miles, 532 calories, 45:27 minutes Watched At Earth’s Core
Tuesday 7/8 : 13.94 miles, 511 calories, 42:30 minutes [...]
An Evening with Aldous Huxley
I had the pleasure of listening to a recording of Aldous Huxley from 1962. Huxley, a visionary speaker and thinker predating the 60s hippy movement was a leader in predicting the social control that is all the rage in counter culture thought even today. It reminds me of some dialog in THE MIST, where the [...]
