Useless Blogging

In the “Milestones you don’t necessarily notice” category:

Last night I was by the front door in my jacket, karate gear on my back, waiting for Julie to gather a couple of coupons for my shopping trip post-training. It’d be only a few moments before I was to head out the door.

Sara came up and said to me, “Bye Daddy, have a good day at school!” Unprompted.

Good times.

(idea not mine)
“Always surprised by the most mundane.”

With a hat-tip to Christine.

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Click through to the picture. Please. Pretty please.

Worth noting today: I replaced the flappers on all three toilets in the house.

Well, it’s worth noting for ME, at least.

Somehow, everyone seemed to vision enhanced but me. That’s the only explanation.

How else can I look at “NO LEFT TURN 7AM-7PM” and not see the “except for you, douchebag in front of Sean”?

I just put Animaniacs Volume 2 Disc 1 on my cell phone. I rule.

From the admin section of a Pligg installation (under “Modify Language”), a list of the constants used in templates, and their English defaults.

Yes, I know this matters to few of my regular readers, but given how totally unable *I* was to find a list such as this, maybe the internet will like it.

Below the cut (if the cut works). Thank me later.
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The World’s Hardest Game (as seen on Kotaku).

The ID number on the post is higher, but if you go count — and if you do, you’ve got serious trust issues — you’ll see that is in fact the 500th post on the blog. A milestone worth celebrating, and a cause for reflection (a popular activity these days, if I’m in front of my PC long enough to make a post).

Trends I missed:

• Walking on the sidewalk becoming passé.
• Double-parking becoming cool.
• Songs that have associated dances, like the Macarena.
• Next-gen consoles. At least, back the first time “next-gen console” was coined.

Trends I started:

• The Great Job Purge of Late 2007 (OK, maybe I was second).
• Shakespeare at Loyola.
• Marriage (Julie helped).

Since starting this blog nearly three years ago:

• Everyone in the family has had three birthdays.
• I’ve lost two grandparents.
• I bought a new van.
• Sara started classes to help her overcome her disorder… and we began to understand that “disorder” isn’t the right way to approach things, necessarily.
• I lost my job. And got a new, shinier one.
• I kinda had a honeymoon.
• Nature took her fury out on my shed.
• Emma got her ears pierced.

There’s probably more, but that’s a decent Greatest Hits for you.

Happy 500th, world.