tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51464812012-02-16T21:12:07.408-05:00Aimlessness is Next to GodlinessAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.comBlogger2411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-22176341990001049062010-08-06T12:21:00.002-04:002010-08-06T12:53:46.236-04:00

Finally kept my appointment yesterday to donate platelets at the Red Cross center in Glen Bernie yesterday, which turned out to be a lot like the prcoes sof donating plasma, except for the very uncomfortable difference of having both arms immobilized with needles and tubes. The siphoning ran about an hour and a half, with the platelets, suspended in plasma, centrifuged out, and the red blood

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-63309216716356456332010-03-26T15:20:00.002-04:002010-03-26T15:43:02.657-04:00

So this Monday, I'll be interviewing for a stint with Big Brothers, Big Sisters. Assuming I don't trip some kind of BBBS profiling alert ("tell me more about your temporary fascination with the Cranes, Mr. Bockhorst"), I'll be paired up with a local 8-12-year-old, with whom I'll be palling around at least twice a month. I'm led to believe that they try to match similar interests, which means I'll

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-26694239870140084222010-03-23T09:48:00.001-04:002010-03-23T09:48:18.941-04:00

Blogger has apparently progressed since I've last used it to the point where I can post via Blackberry e-mail. So this is a test. Only a test.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-78784407634475392022010-03-22T20:52:00.002-04:002010-03-22T21:00:14.792-04:00

Getting my writing-ass back in order, and accordingly rebooting my sadly-neglected blog. Seeing as I've still got quite a bit to do tonight (the chosen site for accomplishing which is Spirits Tavern), this entry will just be a quick notice-serving. But as Clarissa Pinkola Estes noted, we've gotta get this written crap out somehow.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-7006811194397565242009-01-20T18:45:00.002-05:002009-01-20T19:21:14.961-05:00

Maybe I'm not going to go that far with Bush, although I was a little alarmed at how much surging anger came to the surface when the images of Bush boarding the Executive One helicopter taking him to Andrews AFB came on the screen. Given how he mocked Karla Faye Tucker's pleas for mercy before he denied her a stay of execution (which was probably more consideration than he gave the cases of any

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-40008760908763813222008-09-22T21:47:00.003-04:002008-09-22T22:04:17.942-04:00

Just got through with a Phase II evaluation of an 18th Century site in Southern Maryland that was slightly less interesting than it should have been, but it was nice to get back outside for a while at least. Unfortunately, my second unit was done directly in a large patch of poison ivy, and minute blisters have cropped up all over my arms and fingers, and the swelling around my eyes is just going

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-70825998706598560702008-08-21T16:17:00.003-04:002008-09-22T22:01:03.726-04:00

Congratulations to my sweet, sweet mistress Rachel Maddow on getting her own show on MSNBC! She's one of the most intriguing, entertaining political personalities on any medium at the moment, and one hell of a good kisser! Makes me wish I had cable...And one way to celebrate the birth of Mr. Providence: what looks like it might be a decent Lovecraft movie not involving either Jeffrey Combs or

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-75479823300327138612008-08-05T17:24:00.001-04:002008-08-05T17:25:03.521-04:00

Something to chew on while I come up with something interesting to say...

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-49902881990207146852008-06-26T23:02:00.003-04:002008-06-26T23:08:49.138-04:00

My now-habitual failure to post anything isn't from lack of desire, I've just gotten very, very far out of the habit. And I aim to get back into it, starting tomorrow. Damn it, I got the "get in shape" resolution under control finally, you'd think I could wrap up something like posting on my damn blog more often...Meanwhile, I just got a 95% on my boating license test, which means I can pilot

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-65216780729730227002008-06-11T08:00:00.000-04:002008-06-12T10:51:48.419-04:00

It's sort of old news now, but Kitty is now back with us after spending a week in lost cat camp on the Eastern Shore a couple of weeks ago. Not wanting to lock him up in our house alone for three days without his life-coach of a dog, we took him with us to my mom's house for her second annual Memorial Day blow out. Unfortunately, Kitty took advantage of the opportunity to escape the room we

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-9944891657165763642008-05-22T07:01:00.002-04:002008-05-22T07:09:47.406-04:00

Sigh. Someone else thought of the same joke and was much, much more clever about it.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-24908536445348866092008-05-07T07:07:00.007-04:002008-05-07T07:18:07.834-04:00

Come, Michelle! (sound of coconuts)

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-56842094903277163202008-04-21T21:49:00.002-04:002008-04-21T22:31:51.820-04:00

First, now that the temperature is prime, I'll be starting on my cardboard-aged Irish stout kit tomorrow evening. I'm sure somewhere in this god-forsaken house I can find a forgotten corner that's a perfect, constant 65 -75 degrees and is free of mummified mice. I'm taking a couple of Youtube refreshers from this guy.Second, kudos to Heather for knocking my degrees of separation to the Law and

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-90442021828917221022008-03-22T06:42:00.002-04:002008-03-22T06:49:38.925-04:00

I'm back in Lancaster, OH once again, leading several crews in an exploratory excavation that netted a giant hearth feature (fittingly found before I arrived). And of course on top of that function, I'm also performing my office duties in my hotel room after hours. While at least some of my friends have a taste for the demon workohol (*cough* Laurid *cough*), I've never partaken willingly. I'm

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-76942763870040470372008-02-20T20:40:00.005-05:002008-02-21T09:32:35.256-05:00

I can't really say thanks enough to my Dad, Mom, Pete, Jennifer, and Ray for spending the weekend in Baltimore and putting up drywall on my living room that would've taken me weeks to do myself. It looks marvelous, and actually, finally gives a sense of what the place will look like when we're relaxing and finally, finally finished with the whole ordeal. Thank you thank you thank you!

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-71892619077830840632008-02-05T21:39:00.000-05:002008-02-05T21:45:19.958-05:00

Morrissey's ass.His latest song/video is here. Pretty good; still sounding very Ringleadery.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-12143368260666784552008-02-03T12:18:00.000-05:002008-02-03T12:22:21.232-05:00

Bigger version at Dipdive.com. I haven't been this enraptured since I saw that Coke marketing video at the bottling plant in Hong Kong!

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-59789068638110493152008-02-03T11:47:00.000-05:002008-02-03T12:09:16.886-05:00

If you can stomach any more of it, here's Coulter backing up her insistence that she'll campaign for Hillary if McCain gets the Republican nomination. Even better than this being an unmistakable edict to "Just Give Up" to the far Right from its High Priestess, this might actually be the end of Anne Coulter altogether. Whether this is a publicity stunt or not, I can't see the bitter-enders getting

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-6903161750699567322008-02-01T13:56:00.000-05:002008-02-01T16:27:40.697-05:00

In my weeks and weeks of being strung out on the sweet crack of election politics, this is by far the most disturbing (and possibly edifying) thing I've seen. BY FAR!Either way, if this truly is how much reviled McCain is among the off-the-map right, this bodes VERY well for the Dems' chances in November. I've known a few liberals that have sworn off Hillary, and vow to take their vote elsewhere

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-34093958356408883382008-01-24T21:30:00.000-05:002008-01-24T22:00:58.237-05:00

Oh yeah, anybody else love the title of the new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, or that it's directed by Marc Forster, the guy behind Kite Runner and Monster's Ball?

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-9444551167557051942008-01-06T22:18:00.000-05:002008-01-06T22:38:10.741-05:00

This was during his surprisingly lucrative Vegas days, where he fled when strapped for cash. I definitely want to come back in the next life as a temperamental, cocky, gay British guy. (And I never did get to see the Noon-Day Gun, dammit.)

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-46228601177251852682008-01-06T11:47:00.000-05:002008-01-06T12:03:16.111-05:00

From UrbanDictionary.com:MurderlandA nickname for the state, Maryland. The hood places in MD are Baltimore City aka Bodymore, PG County, and some specific places in Mo County or other places. (mainly the DC area)Tyree: "Yo im movin back to Murderland nigga!"John: "oh forreal? where in Murdaland, B-more?"Tyree: "Nah, Takoma Park."

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-50083989342288663962008-01-03T17:46:00.001-05:002008-01-04T17:07:19.946-05:00

Found this in a frou-frou antique shop north of Salisbury. Want your dinner plates to look like they arrived fresh from the scene of a chainsaw slaying? Breakfast at the Clutter house! Awesome!

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-44921811373264008432008-01-03T11:39:00.000-05:002008-01-03T11:50:01.818-05:00

Actually, I didn't last night. For some reason, I was smooching with (alleged!) lesbian talk show host Rachel Maddow, who after the Young Turks sign off in a couple of weeks will be the only thing worth listening to on Air America radio. Maybe it was my way of saying thanks. I told Janine about it this morning, and I would have told her it didn't mean anything, but y'know, it probably did.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-29109218702439494132007-12-22T15:13:00.000-05:002007-12-22T15:42:01.887-05:00

I just came across this potentially chilling bit of comisseration: http://www.southphillyhouse.com/. The author's circumstances are remarkably similar to ours: a couple living in their row house while renovating, except the amount of actual work to be done (as well as their expertise, it seems) rivals ours by a lot. Mold, termite damage, and an additional storey to have to work on.The chilling

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-29068587781270392902007-12-22T11:12:00.001-05:002007-12-22T11:39:03.155-05:00

This monstrousity is what I'll be throwing myself into later today, while Janine's lungs try to hold her encroaching brochitis to the upper chest area, and I try to keep from falling prey to what has been my pulmonary kryptonite. On your right, you'll see the top and floor plates of the frame I've been trying to make level for far too long now. In the front of the house, the original ceiling

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-75904653734100830882007-12-18T20:50:00.000-05:002007-12-19T07:22:35.391-05:00

Get this: I'm being flown out today to Lancaster, Ohio once again for approximately 24 hours, whereupon we'll be throwing an appreciation/Christmas banquet for the field crew -- this is all going to be in the restaurant of the hotel they've been staying for the past many months, which has been of suspect quality. And we're bringing the beer, which is going to have to be in oceanic quanitities to

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-62795351404284133062007-11-27T10:14:00.000-05:002007-11-27T10:37:22.442-05:00

Note to Chris Dodd: Make Dick's "People = Shit" your campaign song. You'll still lose, but you'll be unbearably cool.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-57838324770482962682007-11-20T06:54:00.000-05:002007-11-20T07:25:39.577-05:00

And now for your morning soul crushing...

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-31292821371114231802007-11-19T13:29:00.000-05:002007-11-20T07:26:06.110-05:00

Public Service Announcement Trader Joe's Butternut Apple Soup = vomitous. My appetite's been on the fritz over the past week or so anyway for some reason, and this crap just made me want to shelve the idea of eating anything for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, Janine's been on overdrive in preparation for Thanksgiving, and not eating's not going to be an option in a few days.Meanwhile, I'm

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-81362281714605502482007-11-14T16:06:00.000-05:002007-11-14T16:35:33.742-05:00

Janine's been struck by a bolt of inspiration that has moved her to seriously plan a bakery/dessert shop in Baltimore -- she started off with a batch of red velvet cupcakes a few nights ago, and they were remarkably good (of course, she plans to perfect them). She's giving herself a year to prepare, then launching for all she's worth. She's now passing around the idea hat for names for her

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-28549881912828992762007-11-06T22:18:00.000-05:002007-11-06T22:26:33.574-05:00

Interesting story: I dutifully awoke at 5 AM on Saturday morning to stroll down to the Sip & Bite, a pretty lousy diner a few blocks from here. I was scribbling away at my Nanowrimo project when a young woman sat down opposite me an started asking me questions about where I was from. Then she started making fun of my damn accent, certian that I was from Canada or Minnesota because of the way I

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-67705933160916493342007-11-03T22:01:00.000-04:002007-11-03T22:19:22.084-04:00

That sucks: I was actually planning to try to amend some of my recent reclusionist tendencies and get some people together to go see the Decemberists at the 9:30 Club in DC next weekend, but alas they've cancelled their tour. That makes an even umpteen concerts I've missed in the last year due to cancellations (Decemberists in DC, Innocence Mission in Philly), outrage at ticket prices (Morrissey

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-54982616378554105912007-11-01T21:32:00.000-04:002007-11-01T21:37:37.519-04:00

Work is hell, especially driving 2 hours a day for the priviledge of obsessing about hyper-specific triviliaties. Luckily, I've got the mornings, which I'm alternating between the gym and Nanowrimo (again, for what, the fifth time?). This year is proving maybe a little more encouraging, though, with as much hand-wringing as I've been doing over the years about getitng back on the writing horse,

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-77254668194867107222007-09-16T15:50:00.000-04:002007-09-16T16:06:46.413-04:00

Yes, it's true: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. May 2008.We are simply passing through history. This: this is history...

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-20587959499676890842007-07-02T19:17:00.000-04:002007-07-02T19:19:44.346-04:00

My first letter to a Representaive:Dear Representative Sarbanes,With the outrageous commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence by Mr. Bush, this administration has essentially admitted that the rule of law does not apply to its inner circle. I had thought impeachment an inappropriate avenue until now. Now I must insist that you support the movement to rid the country of this cancer. It has

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-61208808775965717892007-06-18T22:46:00.000-04:002007-06-18T22:47:52.813-04:00

I'm going to try to get it together to scribble more, but I couldn't help but share this.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-42613830288007314292007-04-06T00:05:00.000-04:002007-04-06T00:10:57.950-04:00

Unbelievable San Francisco quintet, floating heartfelt pop music with a wicked sense of humor (see "Serial Mess," about playing hide and seek with a serial killer).

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-83449255314602751402007-04-03T21:27:00.000-04:002007-04-03T21:31:33.389-04:00

Wow, hysterical AND terrifying! It's that special brand of mental assault that the Christian fundamentalist community wields so well. Prepare to laugh. And be scared.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-4146348312871207522007-03-14T15:14:00.000-04:002007-03-14T15:22:49.721-04:00

The maestros of mother-me music have come again... God DAMN it, I love them! They're going to be playing in Philly next month, and I'll be there wallowing in it.Oh yes, and Good Morning America is also coming again, but unlike the Innocence Mission, they're coming to my house. Tonight. I wonder if they'd deliver a message to Glen Beck for me.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-69666545352121742082007-03-13T00:14:00.000-04:002007-03-14T15:39:52.066-04:00

The best news in the world!

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-51300892712357422602007-02-11T22:23:00.000-05:002007-02-11T22:40:35.378-05:00

A quick thanks to Tommy, Janine's brother, who kindly sent me 2 gigs of RAM and some headphones, all in a ploy to get me into the fairly addictive world of City of Heroes. In it, one creates his or her own superhero from scratch, and launches it into a globally interactive cityscape filled with other superheroes from players all over the world. The real fun, of course, comes in character creation

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-6107405981032384782007-02-03T09:20:00.000-05:002007-02-03T09:27:43.875-05:00

Thanks to my Dad for scanning umpteen slides into digital form. I hadn't seen this photo since shortly after it was taken.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-74565283601980337982007-02-01T22:37:00.000-05:002007-02-01T22:54:19.464-05:00

I'm very tired at the moment, but in a state of muted glee. This is the last day I'll be here in the Siberia of Lancaster, Ohio for the foreseeable future. I think I can honestly say that this has been the longest week and a half in memory, to the point where I'm having trouble remembering what life was like before Januray 24th. Didn't I have a wife? A home? Somewhere... was it Connecticut?

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-17517903505309196532007-02-01T22:20:00.001-05:002007-02-01T22:26:34.894-05:00

Feist performing in studio at KCRW, an NPR affiliate in Santa Monica. The song, venue, lady herself, it's all just too goddamn hip for words.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-26035805932337063122007-01-24T19:58:00.000-05:002007-01-24T20:10:05.256-05:00

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-61771169621432061242007-01-13T22:36:00.000-05:002007-01-13T22:52:18.637-05:00

The idea freshly ripped off Crooks and Liars, here's the Innocence Mission's 1995 breakthrough college hit, "Bright as Yellow." I was in Taiwan at the time, so I missed the song's emergence, only for it to become one of my favorites a decade later. Better late than never.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-56104476558056585992007-01-13T08:37:00.000-05:002007-01-13T09:06:59.781-05:00

I'm back in Ohio for the week, and we appear to be rained out for at least the early half of today. The national weather radar looks like there's a massive, angry fungus swallowing the Midwest, so we might be out of the field for large chunks of the weekend. And god knows how I love sitting around the hotel! Luckily, I've got a foot-high pile of reading material, including several hand-picked

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-76259307142456338262007-01-12T16:41:00.000-05:002007-01-14T09:56:30.570-05:00

Here's us on GMA once again. Short, compact..., uhm, functional. Enjoy!

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-85180107924256575932007-01-11T21:23:00.001-05:002007-01-11T21:23:16.283-05:00

This alone deserves an Emmy.On a side note: strangely, "What a to-do to die today" is, for some reason, one of the top searched phrases that leads people to my blog. Anyone know why?

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-57030715062222880432007-01-09T17:35:00.000-05:002007-01-09T17:48:27.716-05:00

Yes, the Good Morning America folks are back for another poke around our disaster area tonight in an impromptu show of interest. This bit should be airing either this coming Friday, or the following Friday, depending on whose date book is right.Oh yes, and GMA also recently hired this guy as a regular commentator. The liberal bias of the Mainstream Media strikes again!

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-36829053968271644612007-01-06T23:17:00.000-05:002007-01-13T09:34:32.138-05:00

Some may remember my great yet nauseating business idea (here too)from a while back. It seems like I'm not the only one who dreamt of something beyond Clean Cotton and Tropical Fruit.

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-34359760751802403052007-01-02T22:20:00.000-05:002007-01-02T22:55:58.760-05:00

In a truly awful twist of fate, I'm on a project in Ohio while Janine's celebrating her birthday over a glass of wine in Baltimore, with the pets and the guitar she got me for Christmas.Come to think of it, this is the 10th anniversary of me missing her birthday because I was swilling it up in New Orleans with Pete. Anyway.Happy Birthday, Baby!

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06258922903262838957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146481.post-1166742673989055782006-12-21T18:10:00.000-05:002006-12-21T20:55:43.510-05:00

A little rough, but this is too cool.

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This makes a grand point about quality over surfeited quantity of our "national debate," but I'm predicting that, after being fooled by the media and their general sense of public awareness and all the input that entails, to vote for a man that's been definitively outed as an utter douchebag at long last, people aren't going to able to trust anything coming from their TVs, radios, etc to inform

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I'm in Ohio once again, having come back from the field at the end of the workday, and I've got more forms, files, and phone calls to work through tonight, lest they pile up and give me twice as much to do tomorrow night. Even so, I did manage to take a short trip back to see Athens in all its now-deserted familiarity. O'Hooley's is now a brew pub -- the bearded brewmaster is probably 25, and

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Well, it's done: we've had our lovely, venerable row house called the ugliest dump on the block on national television. I'll write more about this shortly, but for now I'm off to Ohio for a quick assessment of a few access roads. Woohoo...

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A-freakin'-men. Bush has officially been called out as the historical perfect storm of Presidential shit-headedness. That's gotta be like being called an asshole by Carl Sagan.

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Sad news from the world of comics this hour. Dave Cockrum was always second fiddle to the great John Byrne in the mind of a 10-year-old me rummaging through Donn Erik's magic box o' comics in the 80's, but he did as much as anyone to sling the X-Men to the heights they achieved. Sad to hear he, too, has passed.On a more solipsistic note, the Good Morning America film crew will be here to film a

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Up early for a delayed trek to the Eastern Shore -- last night saw 15.5 mile backups at the Bay Bridge and an 8-mile-per-hour speed limit enforced by the guy in front of you (this info courtesy of Traffic.com; I didn't actually see this nightmare). We're taking all two or so gallons of Janine's stuffing, made from her grandmother's recipe, and heading out shortly, no doubt giving self-satisfied

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>From: xxx>To: "Janine Davis">Subject: RE: Schedule updates>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:13:12 -0500>>Thanks for touching base! We will definitely want to shoot some time>the week of 11/27...probably toward the middle or end of the week. We>will then want Barbara to be LIVE from your house Monday morning 12/4>with you two there. Does that help? Is there a day/evening the week of>11/27 that will work

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I'm up too late once again -- I've got to be up at 5 in the morning for a very long week of digging in Roanoke, although it seems like this actually may be an interesting project to be involved in. This comment after month after month of mostly fruitless shovel testing, followed by three weeks of heading an excavation in which I discovered a large quantity of mulch. I might actually get my trowel

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I'm feeling wordy once again, and perhaps I may even populate this personal forum with verbiage more regularly now. For some reason, I've gained quite a bit of unearned confidence suddenly over the past month or so. Perhaps it's the increased responsibility at work, perhaps it's just a pleasant side-effect of flipping the chronometer from 32 to 33 a while back (at an Orioles game, no less -- I

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Just north of happenin' Fells Point -- our bid has been accepted, and we should be moving in sometime this summer. We're the proud owners of a row house in an alley. Being in Georgia as I am, and not having actually seen our new property yet, I'm just going to go ahead and assume this kicks ass.

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I suppose I have some updating to do... Unfortunately, I'm on my way away from the computer at the moment, off to Augusta for a very, very quick look around, then back here to the Thomson Best Western for a brief, seven-hour nap, then back out into the really pretty woods of Wilkes County. Combine Arizona-style surface survey with the immersive, fragrant forests of this place, and you got

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Just minding my own business online today, and what should I run into but two leaked songs from Morrissey's Ringleader of the Tormentors, both proving that middle age and decades of affluence haven't blunted his creative edge the way it has with, say, well pretty much every successful pop artist (God help Sting).And here's something especially for my sweetie:

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Brilliant!

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I've had this to-do list that's been bothering me for quite a while, many of its contents have gone postponed for a very long time. Add on top of that everything I have to do before I slip the surly bonds of Arizona, I have some time management to consider. Not... really my strong point. I'll check in later.A terrible difficult thing to sayBut a harder thing still to do.

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April 2006Real cover. Really.

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I finally caved to the temptation to put the scant "popularity" of my weblog to the test and pimp out some space for advertisements. I've got no idea exactly how much actual cash I stand to make from people clicking on generic ad links on my blog, although I ran across something that lit up the cliched dollar signs in my eyes: My blog is worth $2,258.16.How much is your blog worth?My blog is

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This makes me want to puke.My e-mail to CNN:"I've been increasingly despondent over the apparent abdication of responsibility most media outlets have shown in covering the abuses of power perpetrated by the current administration; however, until recently I've held CNN in high regard among major news channels. Your hiring of Glenn Beck is entirely beyond the pale. I'm certain your staff is

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FrankenMetro passed away while on work transport duty last Wednesday after a short illness (it had been stalling at stoplights). Its last journey was one of approximately 80 feet from my habitual parking spot to the mailbox, after which it was meant to take its wonted route to ACS. It was not to be. After cranking but failing to catch, I pushed its still-warm body back to its space and called

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Before I lay me down to sleep, I have to refer you to this.

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Boy, do I wish that Blogger had some form of password protection feature. There are a lot of stray free radical thoughts bouncing around my skull, and I'm not quite free to expound publically quite yet. Sigh.I'm pretty speechless about the whole government deal, but with everything that's come out about the amoral, shameless bulldozing of the foundations of our society that's been going on,

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Just bottled my pale ale last night, and now I'm trying to think of a clever-clever name for my most recent brew. My favorites so far include the entry title (perhaps a mock-up of the Sam Adams label with Berkowitz's head pasted onto Sam's shoulders) and "(Oh, am I) Still Ale," complete with a wistful (or inebriated, if I can find one) shot of Moz in the background.Others:Jagged Little Pale

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Just mixed up a big batch of homebrew pale ale, which is cooling in a bucket in the bathtub so I can add the yeast and starting waiting for it to gestate into beer. That, and I recently caved into my creeping sense of apathy and let my gym membership lapse, saving me $50 a month and leaving me to my own devices, fitness-wise. Which is probably for the best -- toward the end, I was getting

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Picking up where I left off with one of the worst weeks in recent memory, revolving mainly around the continual success of my Metro to get me to work followed by its continual failure to get me back home. There's still something wrong with the alternator belt, which I'll have to work out sometime tomorrow between five and six in the morning. It'd be smart to figure it out now, but I'm sleepy.This

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In the same vein as Stacy's type-your-name-into-Google idea (which gave me a bit of a shock initially -- the first thing my eyes landed on when I saw that post for the first time was, "Stacy is pregnant!" Then I saw, "Stacy is a schizophrenic film," and thought maybe she was going all Dada on her posts. And then I got it.), I tried typing my name into Rhapsody's song browser to see what

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Things have altered somewhat over the past month and half since I last posted -- not necessarily bad things; it's one of those situations in which the good and bad come in pretty equal measures, and the bottom line looks like it might turn out better than I would have expected. And everyone likes lists, so:1. Remember that house we were going to buy? We're not going to buy it. The builder and the

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Happy birthday to everybody's favorite Heather! I trust she (definitely) had a blast, and may this whole year in the Big Apple be hugely cool. Maybe I should introduce you to the Marthas...Heather the Bedouin

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I know I shouldn't get my hopes up about Karl Rove being tried and "rendered" to Egypt for treason (re the Valerie Plame affair). Until the day that I can, I always enjoy some well-written sniping.

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Our house.In the middle of construction.

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I present to you season 3 of the Bockhorst Fields scented candle line, imagined by Janine and me over a couple of pints and some artichoke dip (click here for our retired scents).Burning CottageClamAtomic WindClove CigarettesAir PollutionPopped CherrySinusitisYuppie EcstasyMartyrNuclear WinterPopulation ControlDetritusMustard GasCitronellaAbandonmentPirateCatch of the DayFlatulent Uncle (with

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Sorry for the radio silence (not to be read as an apology for Boris Grebenshikov, who's pretty good) -- time seems to be evaporating right out from under me, and hitching posts to the vapors has been a tricky exercise. It's freakin' bedtime AGAIN, but I'll make it a point to roll out something more substantial after I drag my fried carcass home from work tomorrow (survey+116 degree heat+mountains

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I'm back in Tucson for the evening -- it's a two-hour drive from my office in Tempe to my Tucson base, in which everything appears to be heading for the door (we've been using the living room as a central packing area). Meanwhile, I've been spending a lot of the past couple of weeks in a mostly empty apartment in the nicely landscaped and fun-to-say suburb of Phoenix, Ahwatukee, reading and

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It's four something on a Tuesday morning -- I drove down from our new apartment in Phoenix last night to stay with Janine in our old apartment here in Tucson. The transition is happeneing, though. I've got a host of other very cool things to impart, but now I have to drive back, go to work, and maybe look around Phoenix tonight. My new playground...And how cool is it that I can now call myself

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Hi all,I'm spending this week in Globe, Arizona, on a pretty minor project. Next Monday, I'll be back in Tucson for the week, and then Janine and I are off to Baltimore for five days. After that, I'm not really sure what's going on.We do, apparently, have a house on hold for us, which should be good to move into by the end of July or so. Two story. Weird. It's going to be odd living in a

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Hate to just post photos, but damn, I really must post this one.My buddy, Arizona Diamondback Luis Gonzalez yesterday at a Shell station off of I-10. Guy is famous among baseball players for being incredibly nice. No lie. He posed for this photo, and I got the feeling that he would have sat with me while Janine drew a still life of us in charcoal. He said he felt fine for this upcoming year,

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Nearer My Dog to TheeJanine's first crochet project: dog bonnet.

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RAAAAAARGH!(please note: this is a posed phot, taken by Ms. Kelli Newton, in good humor. Janine is not a barbarian maiden in real life).In other news, we're off to Phoenix, folks -- in a month or so, Janine and I will be official Phoenicians, or whatever they call themselves. I received a plum job offer from Archaeological Consulting Services, Inc. (with... I can barely form the words...

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I've been wrestling with a chest cold for most of this weekend, which I've resented -- Janine and I were batting around ideas of either going winery hopping or maybe skiing up in the White Mountains or maybe something besides staying home, drinking tea, and coughing up goop. It appears to be subsiding now, but I'm hoping that another 40 hours of romping around in the dirt this week doesn't leave

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And we're back.Sorry for the silence and all, but for some reason I've been feeling a bit non-verbal for the past few weeks. There has been quite a lot brewing, and I've been taking some time to process it all before I go spewing it all over the internet and such. Don't tell me you haven't been catching all of my psychic memoranda, though -- if not, put your fingers to your temples and sign up

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Will the Real Andrew Bockhorst Please Grow Up? Yes, it's been a while, and things have been happening, but I haven't felt all that verbose recently. Most has been good, although as I've just gotten back from monitoring the beer quality at Thunder Canyon brewery, I can't get into it just now... Love to you all (and not in a drunken, "I LOVE YOU GUYSH" kinda way. I only had two).

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Like a bad letter writer, I will definitely write a long, long something tomorrow.

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An interesting week, which comes up to the minute as I have a 5-gallon pot of boiling IPA wort on the stove as I write. I started a little late in the day (maybe 2 o'clock), and spent a hell of a lot of time sanitizing and getting everything together. It's just starting to dawn on me that I might have to stay up significantly longer than I would've liked waiting for my beer to cool down enough

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