Cataloging the Detritus of my Life
We joined one! We’ll be getting 12 bottles (six red, six white) every two months from Solano Cellars! D and I are hoping that with this we’ll get a good selection of wines and start to learn a little more about the various types of wine, what makes them good, and what pairs well with what wines! We picked Solano Cellars because they deal in small production wineries!
The Alternative Press Expo is the flipside of Comicon. Where Comicon is the convention to go to when you want to see what Marvel and DC are doing, where new movies are debuted, where cartoons and videogames are announced, and where celebrity actors with fans. APE doesn’t have any of that. APE is a place where self-publishers and alternative and independent creators can show their work off without having to compete major publishers and movie studios. I like the fact that when I walk on the floor and browse the booths I don’t recognize any of the comics or their creators! APE is a great place to see new things and meet new people.
I also want to thank my friend and comics aficionado, Nich Maragos, for being my guide every year at APE! Guy bought a ton of comics this year too. I’m not joking his bag was overflowing and he was having trouble carrying it around. I’m really looking forward to seeing his reviews over at his blog, Comic for Comics’ Sake.
Now look at all these pictures! (Not as many pictures as I should have taken…)
I’ve said this before when it comes to Talking Time, but you won’t find a better group of people on the internet who are all giant, lovable nerds. I did Festivus again this year and it was amazing as always. Here’s part one of my report! This year I was the giftee for TT member, upupdowndown. Below is my report.
So, after having driven for 10+ hours across the cultural (and sometimes actual) wasteland that is California I arrive home to find a package!
“New Balance shoes?! That’s for old people!”
I open it up anyway!
“Huh, just some bubble wrapped jars and a piece of paper…”
Greetings Falselogic!
It is I, upupdowndown, your NINJA SANTA OF DOOM. Prepare for your GIFT-RELATED ANNIHILATION.
“I like where this is going!”
Your first present will help instill a sense of dread and unease that will soften up up for the killing blows yet to come: a copy of It’s Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein. Quake with fear to the diagnosis of possibly fatal sickness in the body politic
“This should be uplifting!”
That quaking and unease will mean that you’ll never see my next attack coming: a selection of spice mixtures and mustards from the Colonel De in Cincinnati’s Findley Market! You always claim that nothing good comes from the flyover states, so I know you will not be expecting this dose of DANGEROUS DELICIOUSNESS.
“I sure could use that Butt rub! Oh wait, it says not for topical use…”
(the spices all smell amazing and Mrs. Logic and I can’t wait to try them, I didn’t open the mustards yet but I’m excited about them too)
the final element to this shipment, the one that will destroy you utterly, is the one that I took a much more active hand in creating. behold my own home-canned apple and spice vanilla pear butters, and tremble, for once you taste them, you shall surely perish! They were made this fall with organic local fruit (for extra malice), and you now own two jars of the apple and one of the pear
“I can’t wait to rub these all over Mrs. Logic’s bod… I mean all over my morning toast, good sir!”
(I can not wait to try these butters they look amazing! Is there an ideal time to open these? And once they are open how long are they good for in the fridge?)
Just in case you have survived all of this, I have prepared a BACKUP PLAN. I have subcontracted out your utter (re)destruction to the Craft Beer Club, who will be sending you TWO shipments of a variety of craft beers in January and March. Please enjoy your fatal beverages responsibly!
Wishing you a very murderous Festivus,
UUDD
“Woohoo!”
(This craft beer club looks amazing they send 3 bottles of 4 beers with each shipment 12 microbrew varietal beers? Woohoo!)
Thanks to UUDD for this super amazing Festivus gift! I, and the missus, are stoked to be using the cooking stuff right away!
At this point I’m waiting for the beers to show up!
Happy New Year to you all! This post is late but you know how it is with the Holidays. I kind of wish we could find a way to spread them out a little better. The gauntlet from Thanksgiving to New Year is killer for whatever normalcy you have in your life. No wonder I feel the need to make resolutions come January 1st. My life gets completely frazzled and torn out of shape by December 31.
Here’s my goal post from the beginning of last year.
Let’s see how I did!
1. Pay off credit card debt – This has been a millstone around my neck for too long. I want it gone by the end of the year.
Done!
2. Climb Half -dome – Now is the time to start planning this.
Nope!
3. Cut down on distractions – I spend too much time reading stuff. It’s all very interesting stuff but it doesn’t serve any higher purpose. It’s just another way to distract myself from my life.
I got distracted and failed to keep this goal. Though I do think I was better at being focused
4. Write a poem a week – 52 weeks, 52 poems
Um, kinda? I got through February, so eight poems and I did start the SSPP (Surreal Space Poetry Project)
5. Draw something once a week – 52 weeks, 52 doodles
Nope!
6. Continue meditation – Extend meditation time from ten minutes to twenty, add evening meditation.
Meditation came to an abrupt stop with the time change in 2012 and then the move…
7. Step away from the television and computer – I have a great dog, a beautiful wife, and wonderful friends. I should spend more time with them instead of tapping keys.
I did do this!
8. Fix my knee, start running, cycle more, swim more, do some free weights – I figure with all the free time I have why not make myself better with it?
Did it! Except until the move to San Diego but one of my goal’s for this month (Jan ’13) is to find a weight gym
9. Intentionally left blank
10. Intentionally left blank
Yeah, I don’t know what that was about!
Grade: Satisfactory. Room for improvement in areas.
I’ve done goals for the last two years (2011 and 2012) and I don’t think they’ve done much for me. Either I have anxiety over them and feel like I’m not accomplishing anything or it feels like I’m being coerced into doing something by past me, future me doesn’t like that. I might do goals/resolutions for 2013. But, before I do I need to think long and hard about them as well as how to make goals that I won’t forget about or just not do.