fall down, go boom

second post, same as the, er, most?

2011-02-12T06:35:00.005-05:00

My quest for simplicity began in 199... ahem. at College my senior year.Imagine this: the internet was still in its infancy. Pagers were all the rage (heck, even i had one!). CD's were still used. it was the best of times, it was... well, you get the picture.i had rematriculated into the Sig-Ep dorm into what was, i can only assume, a janitors closet.i had the only single in the dorm (next to

shhhh... we're being simple.

2011-02-09T23:03:00.002-05:00

got online again tonight. read a few blogs and blinked over to a fewother blogs (OK, two blogs total, but that sounds grossly understated) about living simply. i was struck by two things immediately.first: why are there so many links and clickable text and rerouting to fourteen other posts in a blog about simplicity?should'nt the blog itself be, oh, i don't know; simple?second: all of these blogs

300/d. day 7

2009-06-11T15:40:00.002-05:00

"Not even a SCUFF!" Henry straightened to his full height, which, when he wasn't slouching from his neurotic disposition, was actually a full twenty inches taller than Reggie."Well, I mean, it's not as bad as Vickie's..." Reggie pleaded as Henry walked deliberately to the doorway of the bathroom. Reggie, not sure how to read his tenant's mood, followed cautiously while rebutting. "You should see

300/ d. day 6

2009-06-10T20:41:00.003-05:00

The Subway was a time of forced solitude for Victoria. A chance to ignore the ping in her ear. The methodical rumble of the cars over the tracks always brought her just to the edge of Nirvana. But not today. Having one's bathroom wall explode tends to distract the mind a bit. She had to run despite the horrible mess and nagging question of what exactly happened. What could she do? She thought to

day 4 (editorial entry)

2009-06-08T22:21:00.002-05:00

ok, so this may not be 300 words...this is all pretty crazy. i have no idea what i am writing one day to the next. think i might have to make a few caveat's. after all, would this be TW without a list? (TW. you know: terriblywitty... work with me people!)first being that i need to take a weekend or something... every day might be a bit insane.also, i think i might have to mix it up a bit. you

300/d day 3

2009-06-07T20:14:00.003-05:00

Victoria was a no-nonsense editor for a high-powered editorial publication in New York. Ever since she was a little girl, she tried to see things in black and white. She would say it was easier to tell the good from the bad that way; to stave off pain. Teacher's often attributed this legalism to the loss of her mother at a young age, but Victoria knew that was just a red herring.She was always

300/d day 2

2009-06-06T20:41:00.002-05:00

Reggie knocked for a third time on the door of B7. "Hullo? Vickie? I'm going to let myself in so don't be alarmed or nuthin'"Fumbling through his jailer's ring of keys he spun B7's key around and slipped it into the lock. Moments later the apartment super found himself looking down the hallway at a pile of plaster, lath and a shower curtain."Vickie!?" Reggie bounded down the hall to the rubble.

300/d day one.

2009-06-05T20:44:00.004-05:00

He brushed his teeth until they were bleeding."Aw, crud. Not again." He muttered to himself as he spat pink foam into the sink, "Sometimes having OCD is a bad thing."the man reached for his perfectly folded, stark-white hand towel and added, "okay, most of the time OCD is a bad thing." the toothbrush landed in the spotless trash bin next to its wrapper. "no, no... all of the time."not more than

300 a day.

2009-06-04T13:48:00.002-05:00

So, I just started reading a few books on writing. With the tanking economy and my client base dwindling to nothing, I decided to brush off the old English degree and see what my rusty cogs are capable of churning out. The hopes is that it will make a dime or two and I can go back to playing video games in peace. (that screen shot is for you, ben...)Since I have this screaming good PC and a

ooooh! i'm getting butterflies!!

2009-05-23T21:55:00.006-05:00

of course, that could just be the fourteen pieces of bacon i had this morning...(in favorite homer simpson voice) hmmmmm. bacon.anyway, the reason for the butterflies is that i am posting.on my blog.right now.believe it or not, the last year and a half was spent not posting. i only mention this in the off chance that you didn't notice that i was gone for that long.i'm a little nervous, i gotta be

moment of weakness...

2008-01-01T23:35:00.000-05:00

okay, so i was just going to check some friend's blogs, leave a comment or two to be ignored and move on. but then i was sidetracked into a linked website... anyway, to make a long story boring, i now feel compelled to create a new post. despite the fact that i am working really hard at having the least posted on blog in history. i mean, really hard...snappy writing, witty word usage. it is

what can i say? you love me!

2007-12-02T12:16:00.000-05:00

and i mean both of you!yes my dear readers, i will answer your call. i will post again.just not right now....so, i was looking at my sharpie the other day. a little more intently than usual and i noticed this labeling: "not for letter writing or cloth"what?did i miss something? isn't that what sharpie is all about? writing on anything? and why not letter writing of all things? what exactly does

hhhmmm.

2007-10-26T21:52:00.000-05:00

yeah, i know i don't generally have overwhelmingly positive posts, but i seem to be in a quasi-state of equilibrium...seems odd. nothing is really "going my way", per se... but i can't shake this peaceful feeling-- not that i would want to "shake" something so cathartic, but normally if she and i get into a tiff or things like: the gaping hole in my bathroom ceiling, al gore-ish weather or the

back on board

2007-10-09T16:28:00.001-05:00

well, i noticed, even if you didn't, that another several weeks has transpired between blog posts...but i am trying a new thing here. due to the, uh, pinched financial situation i have found myself in i have been redirected by a friend to the world of adsense.don't worry, i will not defile this pristine page with banners and pop-ups jumping out at you everyt time you check to see what wit and

whole lot o nuttin'

2007-09-05T20:39:00.000-05:00

keeping me mondo busy.well, once again, long time since i last posted. i don't know why i can't stick with anything for a very long time... i mean, i once heard that if you do something 21 times, or consistently for 3 weeks it (whatever you do) becomes a habit.that is bull.sorry to disappoint, but there you have it. i have done things 21 times, for three weeks and all while carrying a yak bladder

forever.

2007-08-22T14:32:00.000-05:00

that's how long since i have posted.dang. too much to catch up on. maybe i should just start over?hi, this is my blog. thank you for stopping by. i hope to entertain you on various things from the deepest recesses of my psyche. and my various cyberweb finds...anyway, as if it were even possible to catch up, i will attempt to bring you up to speed with what has happened in the last few months...

and... here'snopictures...

2007-07-16T12:40:00.000-05:00

sorry to have disappointed both my readers, but i put this black piece of foamcore over my window. you see, the window i take the back yard picture through is full south. therefore when i am on my computer poring over the latest blog post, i need to be able to see what i am deleting. without the black foamcore there would be a wash of sunlight obscuring my computer screen. my pupils would be the

and... here'ssomepictures

2007-06-09T11:02:00.000-05:00

yay! bright and cheery! happy, happy. (even if it is a bit too muggy... and the sun's too bright. not to mention the bugs.)see fellow blogger, i am too; content!

hurumph, lawn shmawn

2007-05-20T17:22:00.000-05:00

i hate my yard.more specifically, i hate the grass (or weeds passing for grass) in my yard.even more specific? i h.a.t.e. mowing the grass in my yard.an hour. minimum! and that is not counting the time it takes to finish doing things in the yard related to mowing. ie, dumping grass into compost piles. churning the compost piles, refilling the gas tank halfway through mowing the front yard.

front n back again

2007-05-05T09:56:00.000-05:00

nbig things on horizon. trying to get my design web site up and running. made a brochure marketing piece for my business that i am going to get printed. and i managed to remove another three fence posts from my back yard and gigantonormous flag pole holder from the front (click on each photo accordingly to see, in detail, what i speak of)i'd say april was a decent month. despite some set backs.

similarities?

2007-04-28T09:41:00.000-05:00

you be the judge...

ho hum.

2007-04-25T15:21:00.000-05:00

second onomatopoeia title in a row. wow. whoooo. blam, pow, ratta tat tat and even phew.anyway, sorry about the first line of the last post. it's bugging me so i have to write about it. i all aquiver? what, am i thag the neanderthal, now? i all aquiver. mmm, me big strong. say funny words. i write gooder english than other.so i was going to write about how drab the day is. and then i realize

uh oh...

2007-04-22T23:52:00.000-05:00

i all aquiver with excited anticipation. (unlike that ho hum anticipation we see so much of...?)you see, i have let my url (this blog) loose on a number of people. people a little more web savvy than yours truly. who, i have heard, is not so web savvy. but, then again, neither am i. which brings me to the point of this post.they might know that i am bad at blogging! you see, until now- with the

missing links

2007-04-14T21:33:00.000-05:00

you may, or may not, have noticed... actually more like not, i haven't been adding links to my posts.i say 'not' because there have only been one or two posts since i last had links...anyway, i have been omitting links because of two reasons.1. half of the things i link to disappear within a week or so of posting. 2. i don't want to keep updating the links that have been misplaced.so there you

so close and yet, so far

2007-04-12T16:12:00.000-05:00

i just typed in my url only i accidentally left out an 's'.my computer went to a rather freaky website. nothing bad, only TONS of ads and jumping, shaking, annoying pop ups telling me that i won an apple ipod and can get low mortgage rates, etc.so i just want to set the record straight that i have no affiliation to terriblywitty.blogpot.comand why do they even have that name?two things from this

first of the month, again!

2007-04-05T18:30:00.000-05:00

a little more forethought this time, i actually uploaded the pictures before posting any text. this way i can more quickly manipulate the post to look the way i want it to.hey, i never said i was a wiz at stuff like this... okay? frontback(to avoid confusion)well, now that that is done... what should i post on? the fact that we had snow a day after an 80 degree day? oops, guess i just did post

oh the frustration!

2007-03-31T21:32:00.000-05:00

nothing seems to be going very smoothly at the moment. work + progeny + house + minutia = frustration!spring began with such promises! and now, already, there is a hint of malcontent in the air.in other news, someone mentioned neuroses 2 by name the other night. must ... keep ... focus! *butterfly effect worthy look of concentration* and i have been battling those pesky melancholy ideas so

flowers and flutterby's

2007-03-21T20:14:00.000-05:00

at the franklin park conservatory. yesterday.good times. some good foto's, if i can get my act together i might post a few-- but don't get your hopes up. i know that some of you are all geeked out because this is my third post in three days, but, again i say: don't get your hopes up.this might be a fluke or some kind of weird coincidence. perhaps something having to do with the insanely great

top designer, my you know what!

2007-03-20T17:10:00.000-05:00

just saw this and i have to say that i think they need to get their definitions straight before handing out any more labels. dyson may have made a vacuum that works better, but he is not a top industrial designer. this may take more to explain than my poor blogging skills can handle, but i do know the difference between an industrial designer and an engineer. you can be one or the other, but not

feelings...nothing more than...crap!

2007-03-19T10:26:00.000-05:00

well, i feel bad.i was at one of my favorite blogs (which i had to delete from my diversion list because it is now private...) and i realized that it puts me to shame. to shame! you see, i have the url "terriblywitty". am i earning that nomicker? noOoo. shame!i enter one lousy post a month. and not even on the same day a month... terrible, yes. witty, noOoo.and now i see that some people put "

look!

2007-03-02T17:16:00.000-05:00

no mo sno! and here's one from the "awwww" catalog:

boy. and do i mean boy!

2007-02-10T19:17:00.000-05:00

you try and get a first of the month post on your blog the same day the progeny arrives and the world crumbles at your feet.i guess i will just have to be content to not post things on a timely basis.but hey, at least this site is getting more attention from me than my twice visited myspace account. (look, it was a moment of weakness and i hopped on the bandwagon. blame weird al. i do.)anyhoo,

new gadgetry

2007-01-24T09:43:00.000-05:00

just saw this... does anyone else find it amusing that the israeli army is developing a new weapon called WASP? isn't this a clash of cultures? pretty cool technology, but maybe they could have named it something like: baptist-bee or dao-inger... WASP? ha!

yeee-haaaahhh!! 2007, baby!

2007-01-01T11:24:00.000-05:00

and here you go. actually on time this month! don't worry, i won't let it become a habit...firsts for the year 2007:i played x boxi met gus, the greatest cat in the worldi read a number of dilbert cartoons i have never read beforei dreamt about a frazzled neuroses 1 running into me at the store and wishing that she had never broken up with me (this is big deal because usually i want her to say

nothing really...

2006-12-19T16:26:00.000-05:00

i just found out how easy it is to get to this blog and post something...why this is impressive:for months now, i have been going to blogger's web site and logging in. only instead of taking me to this blog it takes me to my old-non beta-version. so then i would have to click on the beta link and go the that home page, reinstall the pertenant information only to get me to an error page asking me

alright. i lied

2006-12-08T10:45:00.000-05:00

there was only one post between first o the month pics... sorry, it's been a tad crazy.in other news... she and i saw stranger than fiction the other night. and i have just three words: FAN. TASTE. ICK. superb acting. emma thompson. (not emma watson, but hey, you can't have everything...) great writing. clean. etc. it's going

a post so there are more than two posts between first o month pics...

2006-11-08T23:06:00.000-05:00

saw wedding singer again the other night. (note: see right side incomplete list of fav movies) i am due to get a new phone this week. thank heavens! for the past three or four months i have been having to plug my phone in to the charger (or rather the charger into the phone...) about five minutes into a call. heaven forbid i be on the road! many a call was lost through the months of july,

what you've been waiting for:

2006-11-04T11:09:00.000-05:00

now that it's the fourth of the month... one of these days i'll get it straight.yay, fall!! *giddy dance*

beware, the end of the world!

2006-11-02T14:22:00.000-05:00

man, what a nutty couple of days!first, in a coffee shop a barrista told me: "i can't wait till they just put a chip in my head. that way, anything i want, just 'beep' and deduct it from my bank account."i abstained from launching into recitation of revelation. figured it wouldn't offset the perceived convenience enough to make a change of heart."so what if my soul belongs to satan, i wouldn't

ahh, the joys of the internet

2006-10-18T21:45:00.000-05:00

another ghost can finally be laid to rest.years ago. and i mean, years, i was watching late night television as a young lad and on tbs (you remember, the superstation) i watched a portion of a fairly disturbing animation. decades have passed with nothing more than a vague recollection of something needling at my brain; this imprint--no, this tattoo, left by some random cartoon. i never thought i

thank heavens!

2006-10-12T21:26:00.000-05:00

i remembered my password. i can actually post again!not that anyone actually noticed. "what? you haven't posted anything for a month? oh. hadn't noticed."so, let's see if we can't catch you up.first, first o the month pics.next, glenmont estate update:this past weekend spent sucking insulation and doing the inchworm in my crawlspace ought to reduce the bleeding me dry the gas company enjoys every

office-ially moved!!

2006-09-25T20:46:00.000-05:00

i finally finished a project!believe it or not, i managed to remodel the back room of my house and move all my computing paraphernalia into it.and there was much rejoicing...(tiny flags wave) now, this may not seem like a major undertaking to you, but then, i haven't got a very good track record for finishing projects.take my bathroom, for instance.upon moving into this "house" (see last post for

spotty blogging...

2006-09-17T13:30:00.000-05:00

no, not a blog about dalmations...i just mean to say that i will not be as consistent with my blogging for the next few months... you see, i was having anxiety attacks the other night because i am expecting an addition to my household and my house to hold this addition is a hell. hole.don't believe me? look at these pics:you see, the cycle is this:money fixes house; time makes money; blogging

faces, faces, everywhere...

2006-09-15T21:54:00.000-05:00

i think i have it. for the past few weeks, i have been haunted—no, consumed by this growing vision of what people look like. the best way to describe it, as i discovered over lunch today, is this: take optical illusions as an example. like

wazzz ahhhpp!

2006-09-12T22:29:00.000-05:00

making certain sounds through text is a little more difficult than i make it look, believe me.i spent ten minutes and about four to five rough drafts to get the title of this post. (okay, most of that time was spent thinking about what to post about) and on my profile page, which you really ought to read if you haven't yet, some really good material is in there (deep in there... no, no keep

on hotel bathrooms

2006-09-10T20:31:00.000-05:00

what's with the constantly changing shower diverters? i mean, i'm fairly mechanically inclined. after all, i am a designer. but every time i stay at a hotel, there is some new way of turning on the shower or moving the water from a state of bath-ness to a state of shower-ness that baffles me at six in the morning (more than usual).push this, turn that, pull those... and always the opposite way

my entry into official geekdom,

2006-09-05T14:08:00.000-05:00

contrary to popular belief, was not last night, but instead, freshman year in high school when a sophomoric friend of mine and i bought ninja suits at the army navy store and ran around the neighborhood at night throwing dull daggers at each other. did i mention that his neighborhood was very well lit?last night, however, is what i want to post about. she and i went to see the star wars exhibit

beta, isn't that like vhs, only smaller?

2006-09-03T20:59:00.000-05:00

and we are officially up and running with beta. whatever that means...what's that? didn't feel the shift? well, suffice it to say that now i can do a little more to entertain you. aside from the subtle humor i eek in here and there.didn't notice any humor? oh. maybe it is too subtle...

version 1.6

2006-09-03T19:59:00.000-05:00

9.03.2006 sadistic revelry #15 just once i would like to hear a satisfying 'pop' at the end of one of those loud bbbbrrrraaaaapppppttttt! motorcycles. it would serve 'em right. get a muffler for heaven's sake! posted by studmuffin @ 8:33 PM 0 people

version 1

2006-09-03T19:50:00.000-05:00

August 03is a rose still a rose?okay, i am currently in the state of rearrangement. i am unhappy with the limitations msn has put on visitors to my blog, but in order to create a blog on any other site, i have to name myself.although this may seem like an easy task to the average bear, i am plagued with this overwhelming desire to encapsulate the whole convoluted concept of myself in a single

version 2.o

2006-09-03T19:37:00.000-05:00

okay, this should be the last move for quite a while. i am getting tired of settling in with a blogging format, learning the secrets of navigating the site only to get kicked out (as with msn spaces) or to find a newer, more advanced, sleeker, easier to navigate, upgraded--shall we say: beta, version. but seeing as how i am moving, maybe i should go about it the right way. by the right way, i am