Archive for the ‘Life in General’ Category

This? This is nothing. You should hear about the time she bivouacked on a 90 degree rockface on Kilimanjaro with nothing more than a tarp and two climbing spikes.

Oh my. Does this mean people outside of the DC/New Jersey corridor will actually know where my alma mater is? “Wait, they won?” came the response from one friend after I sent a celebratory text message following the game. That reply sums up the past eight years, when American has flirted with a bid three [...]

Target hates to see you go.

Oh right, I have a blog. Saw this list on Andrew Huff’s blog, and it reminded me of the U.S. map I taped to the wall of my dorm room junior year. I stuck a pin in every city I’d ever visited, then filled the holes with toothpaste before I went home for the summer [...]

The previous owner of our ’98 Honda CRV was in such a hurry to peel off in their shiny new upgrade that they left a pet harness in the back seat and Johnny Cash’s 16 Biggest Hits in the CD player. The harness got tossed, but the CD has been in heavy rotation since. Johnny [...]

Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cooooold out there today. Chicago is locked in a vicious cycle of snow thanks to some large body of water nearby, or possibly some large landmass north of the contintental 48. Either way, we’re settling in for snow and lots of it. We’re [...]

Buried deep in your cellular contract is a little-known clause requiring you to speak loudly into your phone, as if it were a tin can connected to another tin can with twine. See, you thought loud-talkers are rude. Not so. These are law-abiding citizens. I was surrounded by a few of these good people on [...]