1. Finally joined the majority of the universe this week and ditched my dial-up for high-speed. I am satiated.
2. Friday's winter storm was LAME. It petered out a bit and was mostly rain for the bulk of the daylight hours, before begrudgingly switching over to all snow sometime Friday evening. Woke up this morning to about 3 inches on the ground.
But I'm comfortable saying that, regardless of the outcome, it was a perfectly good waste of a winter storm. These things are supposed to happen during the week. Friday winter storms don't do me any good, because I don't get to miss work. On the bright side, another one is on the horizon; with my winter weather luck, it'll only give us another glancing blow, like the last two or three have.
3. Signed My Son Cool up for Little League today. They gave us the option of buying a box of fundraising candy bars on the spot, or taking a box, selling them and giving them the money later. We chose the former. It was $77 for a box of 52, and I suggested to my wife that we sell them for $2 apiece (cause I'm a capitalist at heart). Hell, support the Little League and make a nice little profit. Everybody wins!
It would have worked, too, except we got the box open at home and found that they all said $1 apiece on the wrapper.
Rats.
4. In spite of the inclement weather, Wife had a girls' night out last night with her sisters. She texted me at one point in the evening and asked, "Would you divorce me if a guy gave me $36,000 to have sex with him?"
I really didn't know it was that kind of girls' night out, but I played along. As you might know, the Chinese symbols for "challenge" and "opportunity" are the same, and it was the spirit of that tenet that drove me to reply:
"Hell, honey, for 36K, I'll even let you enjoy it."
Her: "Thanks."
Me: "Cash only, no personal checks."
Her: "Lol"
I thought about it for a minute and texted back, "Ummm. 36,000 is a fairly specific amount. Where did you pull that number from?" You know, why not $35,000 or $40,000?
I didn't hear anything for a few minutes, which only made me wonder more. But whatever distress I was feeling regarding her possible infidelity was tempered by the fact that I was also counting the money in my head.
Sadly, it turns out that she and her sisters were discussing the news item from earlier in the week where the girl in Australia or New Zealand auctioned her virginity, and that was the final bid (citation needed).
"But," I texted, "there are no virgins in your party. Least of all your older sister." (No response to that one.)
So, yeah, we're still broke.
2. Friday's winter storm was LAME. It petered out a bit and was mostly rain for the bulk of the daylight hours, before begrudgingly switching over to all snow sometime Friday evening. Woke up this morning to about 3 inches on the ground.
But I'm comfortable saying that, regardless of the outcome, it was a perfectly good waste of a winter storm. These things are supposed to happen during the week. Friday winter storms don't do me any good, because I don't get to miss work. On the bright side, another one is on the horizon; with my winter weather luck, it'll only give us another glancing blow, like the last two or three have.
3. Signed My Son Cool up for Little League today. They gave us the option of buying a box of fundraising candy bars on the spot, or taking a box, selling them and giving them the money later. We chose the former. It was $77 for a box of 52, and I suggested to my wife that we sell them for $2 apiece (cause I'm a capitalist at heart). Hell, support the Little League and make a nice little profit. Everybody wins!
It would have worked, too, except we got the box open at home and found that they all said $1 apiece on the wrapper.
Rats.
4. In spite of the inclement weather, Wife had a girls' night out last night with her sisters. She texted me at one point in the evening and asked, "Would you divorce me if a guy gave me $36,000 to have sex with him?"
I really didn't know it was that kind of girls' night out, but I played along. As you might know, the Chinese symbols for "challenge" and "opportunity" are the same, and it was the spirit of that tenet that drove me to reply:
"Hell, honey, for 36K, I'll even let you enjoy it."
Her: "Thanks."
Me: "Cash only, no personal checks."
Her: "Lol"
I thought about it for a minute and texted back, "Ummm. 36,000 is a fairly specific amount. Where did you pull that number from?" You know, why not $35,000 or $40,000?
I didn't hear anything for a few minutes, which only made me wonder more. But whatever distress I was feeling regarding her possible infidelity was tempered by the fact that I was also counting the money in my head.
Sadly, it turns out that she and her sisters were discussing the news item from earlier in the week where the girl in Australia or New Zealand auctioned her virginity, and that was the final bid (citation needed).
"But," I texted, "there are no virgins in your party. Least of all your older sister." (No response to that one.)
So, yeah, we're still broke.
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