I tried to buy black and gold ribbon at Wal-Mart on Tuesday night and they had absolutely none. All the other colors were still neatly in the ribbon racks, but the black and gold slots were completely empty.
Its like the night before Christmas around Iowa City today. You know, if your Christmas celebrations had an [...]
Entries from September 2006
I knew it was going to be an extra crazy Game Day when…
September 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: Iowa Hawkeyes
Where was I? Where am I?
September 20th, 2006 · 4 Comments
Since I last checked in things have gotten busy with the onset of football season. I’m going to attempt to do a text and photo bulleted-list update. Let’s see how edited I can make this:
Friends with children: I went to my friend Natalie’s baby shower at the end of August. She’s having her first daughter [...]
Tags: General Thoughts
Book #35 : The Last Cato: A Novel
September 6th, 2006 · No Comments
The Last Cato: A Novel
by Matilde Asensi
I’m not sure how I ended up checking The Last Cato out from the library. I had a note in the back of the little notebook I carry around with a book-reading possibilities list about it from somewhere. It was listed as similar to The Da Vinci Code which [...]
Tags: 50 books
48/29
September 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment
I’d like to get through this long-standing goal of watching all the Best Picture winners sooner than later. This weekend I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976). I don’t know what I was expecting from this one, but it was more low-key than I expected, despite the last third being one over-the-top people-in-the-nuthouse [...]
Tags: Movies
Book #34 : Cell
September 5th, 2006 · No Comments
Cell: A Novel
by Stephen King
Its the end of the world as we know it and I don’t feel real good about using my cell phone anymore.
I’ve only begun to get into the Stephen King catalog, but I had heard many good things about this new book, Cell so I originally picked it up as an [...]
Tags: 50 books
Now more than ever…
September 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment
I’ve got all kinds of things to blog about: movies I’ve watched, books, I’ve finished, football consumed, sunburns, going to the gym… but instead I bring you something I’m sure I’ve shared with a lot of people before, but it never fails to make me laugh. My co-worker Jeff and I were laughing about it [...]
Tags: Random Ramblings
*sneeze*
September 5th, 2006 · No Comments
Bleh.
I’m totally getting a cold. My nose is getting stuffed up. I got busy yesterday and neglected my Zicam, Airborne, and extra fluids… apparently this is the price I will now pay.
Tags: General Thoughts


