Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Hey!

2011-06-23T13:03:00.001-07:00

My friend Rilla reminded me that I have a blog, so this is me using it again. Lots has happened since the last time I wrote in this thing, so let me explain...no, there is too much. Let me sum up.

Rhinkeberger finally finished its' album, bizarrely titled "Dust My Clock", and it feels great to have it done. I'm happy with the way it sounds, and people seem to like it, so yay. Basically every person that's heard it has said, "This is way better than I expected", which I never quite know how to take, because I have no way of knowing what they were expecting, but whatevers. I like it, and if you don't, then Track #8 is for you.

I quit my job to spend the summer at the lake. Not an easy choice, but I'm comfortable with it, and I'm excited about the opportunities that walk hand-in-hand with freedom.

I bought a totally bitchin' bicycle, and I love it the most. I used to only ride my bike when I needed to get someplace, but now I ride my bike even if I have nowhere to go. It is super-mega-funtimes, and his name is Cycle Jackson.

I had a birthday, and I celebrated with food and drink and friends, and it made me immensely happy.

There's probably lots of other great stuff that's happened to me, but it's literally impossible for me to remember even half of the stuff that happens to me in an average day, so this is all you get for now. If I remember some other stuff, maybe I'll tell you about it.

Bad Mood Update

2010-11-25T18:00:00.000-08:00

I recovered my bank card, and my face has mostly gone back to normal, so I'm doing much better emotionally, so yay. However, this has been balanced out by the unfortunate fact that I seem to be doing worse physically. Stupid 'flu season.

shut out with you butt out,

Eff Ehm Ell

2010-11-24T15:30:00.000-08:00

In the last four days, the following things have occured:

I slipped on the ice while running across the road, and sprained my ankle.

One of the wheels fell off my computer chair.

The front of one of my dresser drawers came off in my hand.

I had holes drilled into my face by a dentist.

I lost my debit card.

The extension cord that I bought to plug my car in doesn't reach the road from the house (which actually doesn't matter, because when I went to plug in my car I noticed that the plug for my block heater had been ripped off, so I couldn't plug my car in anyway. So I need to replace the cord on my block heater).

If anyone wants to stop by and kick me square in the balls, now would be a good time. It's a good thing that I'm single, because if I had a girlfriend, she probably would have dumped me, because that's the kind of week it's been.

I'm going to crawl under my covers with a bottle of Kraken, and I'm not coming out until the universe stops fucking with me. Y'all can kiss my pasty, pimpled ass.

Ombudsman

2010-09-23T11:48:00.000-07:00

The word "ombudsman" comes from old Norse, and it means "representative".

You know what that means? That means that when you try to be gender-neutral by saying "Ombudsperson", you sound like a stupid asshole. The "-man" at the end isn't a reference to gender. It's like trying to make "menopause" gender-neutral by saying "personopause". Jackass.

The Future of the Music Video

2010-09-10T20:20:00.000-07:00

Since MTV and MuchMusic have bailed on showing videos in favour of "reality" tv, which gets better ratings because people are complete fucktards, music videos have moved online. This has opened up some fascinating new possibilities.

This is the future.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

HAHA!

2010-02-17T16:10:00.000-08:00

Rhinkeberger vs Recording

2010-02-08T20:12:00.000-08:00

This past weekend, Rhinkeberger headed into the studio to record it's first album. A guy named Chris Douglas did the recording for us, out at his studio on a farm just outside of Colonsay (that's co-LON-say, not COLON-say), and while I'm not an expert in these matters, I think he did an outstanding job of making us sound at least kind of ok. The whole process was a lot of fun, but by Sunday afternoon, I was completely exhausted, and I didn't even have to do much of anything the 2nd day. We're still a long way from hearing the final product, but I'm cautiously optimistic that we may wind up with something resembling a decent record.

We headed out late Friday night, set everything up, messed around a little just to see how everything worked, and then got wasted and stayed up until 5:00 in the morning, because that's what Rock Stars do. We started recording for reals after breakfast on Saturday, around 12:30-1:00. We managed to hammer out all eight songs on Saturday, which left Sunday free for touch-ups and backup vocals and stuff like that. Arlan spent about 10 minutes trying to get a cat to meow into the mic so he could use it during his bass solo, but the cat was un-co-operative, so Sam, showing off his musical versatility, made the cat noises himself.

The single biggest hurdle on Sunday was probably Jeff'a guitar solo on "Fire". Maybe I'm a bad person, but I thought it was hilarious that he had so much trouble coming up with a solo for a song that HE WROTE. But to his credit, I think the solo turned out awesome, so yay for Jeff, he did a good job.

Highlight of the weekend? Driving to the hockey rink in Colonsay on Saturday night for Rink Burgers and fries. I gave them a B+, not bad for a town with "colon" in the name.

Bye!

T.

Space News!

2009-11-23T16:24:00.000-08:00

In crazy, insane, terrifying space news, THE SUN COULD EXPLODE ANY TIME. I'm WAY more worried about this than I am about swine flu. I'm just sayin'.

Kickin' it with your dick in it,

T.

Rhinkeberger

2009-11-05T20:28:00.000-08:00

Rink Burger changed it's name to Rhinkeberger (you say it the same, you just spell it differently), and we're playing at the Roxy again next week! Yay! But if you're reading this, I'm betting you know about that already, so let's talk about something else.

I'm going to see Louis CK tomorrow in Edmonton. Awesome! Louis CK gets my vote for Best Living Stand-Up Comic. He's about a million times better than Dane Cook, who's kind of a hack and is only famous because girls think he's cute. Louis CK is the Beatles, and Dane Cook is the Monkees, OK? OK. I'm sorry if you like Dane Cook...I'm not sorry that I offended you, I'm actually just sorry that you like Dane Cook.

Aside from those two things, I can't think of anything else wonderful or exciting that has happened to me lately, at least nothing I want YOU to know about. So get lost, would ya?

Slip out with your tip out,

T.

Punk Band

2009-10-22T01:45:00.000-07:00

Tonight, "Rink Burger" played its first show. We played the open stage at the Roxy, and we rocked pretty hard. I was pretty jacked up after the show, and I'm still a little wired from the adrenaline and the thrill of being on stage. This was my first time ever playing a real gig, and it went way better than I anticipated. I wasn't as nervous as I thought I'd be, and while I realize that it's hard for me to be objective, I thought we sounded great.

The audience (made up entirely of my friends, thanks guys) loved us. But even better than the response from the crowd was the response from the dudes in charge at the venue. I'll keep y'all posted on when our next show is going to be, but if we're lucky, it might actually be a paying gig. Being a rock star is totally awesome!

Freak out with your Sheik out,

T.

Go-Girl

2009-10-08T14:49:00.001-07:00

I should get one of these for my boat...

In other news, NASA plans to BOMB THE FUCKING MOON. Holy Shit!

It snowed today, for the first time since it stopped being winter. This time of year is always hard for me, because I don't like winter too much. The weather keeps me inside, and I never see the sun, and all the pretty girls are made androgynous by their winter clothes...it's bad every which way. I'm going up to the lake for Thanksgiving, which will be really nice, but I'll have to take my boat out of the water this weekend, which is pretty much the saddest day of the year for me.

But this time of year is bad enough without sitting around being all mopey, so here is some good news: The punk band has a show next week! That's AWESOME! It will be our first show ever! But we still don't have a name, so if any of you out there can think of something good that we should be called, let me know.

Stay warm and dry,

T.

Cool!

2009-09-23T00:06:00.000-07:00

THIS is frigging cool.

T.

tired

2009-09-22T00:11:00.000-07:00

too tired to say much. need sleep. did I tell you I'm in a punk band? the band is awesome. here's a comic that is pretty much sums up the last 9 years in the U.S.A. "Fallen Earth" is pretty cool, if you're into that kind of thing. If you decide to give it a try, let me know and we can go shoot mutants together, or something.

good night.

T.

A little Sumpin'

2009-09-01T11:42:00.000-07:00

Here's a little sumpin' for the three people who still check this thing...

Have a round, firm day.

T.

Pando

2009-07-27T22:36:00.001-07:00

80000 years is really, really old.

T.

Punk Band

2009-07-23T00:58:00.000-07:00

Tonight, we had our first punk-band practice. It was totally awesome. We worked on a couple of covers, and a couple of originals, and if we can just find a hot chick to play the guitar, we'll pretty much be the best punk band ever. Contact me if you are a hot chick who knows how to play the guitar and wants to be in a punk band.

T.

Don't Care

2009-06-29T19:13:00.000-07:00

I don't care if he was crazy as hell, or what problems he had. You watch this and tell me that he didn't do what he did better than anyone.

The Cock-Rhyme Game, in Comic Form

2009-06-24T11:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.octopuspie.com/2009-06-24/guest-comic-erika-moen/

I just found this. I liked it. Erika Moen also does a comic strip called Dar, which can be found here: http://www.darcomic.org/

Enjoy your day.

T.

Offside

2009-06-22T11:25:00.001-07:00

I just found this at Penny Arcade...wee-yow.

2 Things from Something Awful

2009-06-11T21:55:00.000-07:00

Thing 1

Thing 2

That is all for now. I promise promise promise that I will blog about what happens to me at my birthday party this Saturday. Promise.

T.

My Weekend

2009-05-24T19:58:00.000-07:00

Lemme tell you 'bout my weekend. First, I got WAAY too much Vitamin D, and my shoulders are so cooked that I could probably heat my own bathwater. Second, I spent most of the weekend drinking beer in boats, which is among the awesomest things you can do. Third, we got pulled over by the Conversation Officers, who asked us to count our lifejackets, whether or not we had a bailing bucket and a whistle, and whether or not there were beers in the cooler (Our answer, "Not anymore!", was apparently the right one, because we didn't get tickets).

Fourth, I caught my first fish in like a decade, which was pretty cool, except he was just a little jack, and we weren't gonna keep him, but he decided to be a real pain in the ass and swallow the hook, which wound up actually coming out through his gill, so we had to cut the line and pull the damn thing all the way through, so it wound up being a lot more work than I like to do. Fishing can be such a pain in the ass. Still, I was in a boat and I had a beer, so it was a pretty good time.

Fifth, Adam's new puppy got bit in the nose by a fish. Adam caught one, and the puppy was curious, and it started to lick the fish's face, and the fish bit him right on the schnozz, and the dog let out the loudest, most pitiful yelp that I ever heard. It was hilarious because it's one of those things that you see happening in your mind right before it happens in real life, and I was all "check it out, that fish is gonna bite that dog", and then he DID, and then I laughed.

There was probably a lot more stuff that happened, but that's all I feel like typing right now. I'm'a go rub some aloe on my red bits.

T.

Wiener Dog

2009-05-03T20:01:00.001-07:00

Bike

2009-04-27T17:24:00.000-07:00

Got me a bike. Been ridin' it around. Spring = Awesome. Not only do I get home from work faster by bike than by taking the shitty ol' bus, I don't hate my life nearly so much when I bike as when I'm riding the shitty ol' bus. So that's, like, double-Awesome or something.

In other Tomas-related news, Jeff Macdonald has transformed himself into an evil robot version of me. The practical upshot of this is that there is now a 2nd Tomas Terfloth on Facebook. Don't be fooled, though. Make sure you aren't taken in by my evil robot doppelganger. I don't know what he's up to, but I know it can't possibly be good news for anybody.

IFC short

2009-04-20T22:19:00.000-07:00

You gotta watch this. It relates quite nicely to the conversation I had at my bbq about what a fucking joke "the news" is.

T.

BB, BBQ, and...um...

2009-04-20T11:31:00.000-07:00

This past Saturday, I had a barbeque. Those of you who came know all about it, because you were there, and you know what fun it was. Those of you didn't come don't get to hear about it, because you didn't bother to show up. Assholes.

Seriously, though, the bbq was great, there was a mountain of food, and lots of booze, and I enjoyed myself completely. There was a small hiccup at about 11:00 AM when Arlan and I realized that we didn't have any propane, but the good news is that I now know that a standard-sized propane tank fits exactly into my backpack! I like learning things.

Aside from barbeques and the first round of the NHL playoffs, the only other thing that I've been doing lately is beta-testing the new Blood Bowl game that's due out in June. I can't talk too much about it because I don't want the Intellectual Property Police to show up at my house and talk sternly to me about my violation of the NDA until I cry, but I can tell you that it's super-fun, and that I'm kicking the ass of anyone stupid enough to challenge me to a match. Seriously, I've got like 20-some wins, 0 losses, and 1 tie. The biggest reason I was excited about the digital version of BB was that it would give me a chance to play against some of the best players in the world, since I so consistantly whip the asses of all the local opposition. But I'm starting to think that maybe it wasn't that there's a shortage of good coaches around here; maybe I'm just that good.

Why is it that the only things that I'm really good at are completely without financial value, totally unmarketable, not appropriate in mixed company, or impossible to do as a career? It isn't fair. If it were possible to make money by beating people at Blood Bowl, not only would I be TOTALLY FUCKING HAPPY ALL THE TIME, I'd also be STINKING RICH. What I need to do is find a way to turn Blood Bowl into a spectator sport that people can bet on. Ideas? Contact me. You might want to get in on the ground floor on this one.

T.

Ray Smuckles is my hero

2009-04-19T17:36:00.000-07:00

This is why Ray Smuckles is the coolest cat around. I, too, get mad when people give me shit simply because they get up earlier than I do. What a ridiculous thing to act all superior about.

Bacon Cures Hangovers

2009-04-07T21:29:00.000-07:00

I didn't need some fancy-pants scientist to tell me that. But sometimes it is nice to be proven right.

T

A Softer World

2009-04-06T20:21:00.000-07:00

I really, really like "A Softer World". You will too, if you know what's good for ya.

makin' out with your bacon out,

T.

Mi-mi-mimi, mi-mi-mi-mi.

2009-03-26T20:25:00.000-07:00

Watch it. Be amazed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHphaS4aPX0

T.

Ex Presidents Golf Club

2009-03-19T22:04:00.000-07:00

Jesus Pwn3d U

2009-03-18T22:54:00.000-07:00

I laughed so hard at this, I thought I'd die. The soccer one was especially great.

T.

Again with the Comics

2009-03-17T22:25:00.000-07:00

I swear, I have this dream all the time. I had it like 2 nights ago. I always find it a little unnerving when the comics I'm reading peer deep into my life like that.

Big Weekend

2009-03-16T11:45:00.000-07:00

Boy oh boy, has a lot of stuff happened to me since I last bored you with my long pointless stories that never go anywhere. Here's the skinny:

Me an' the boys played in the High Voltage Classic this past weekend; we played a real stinker of a first game, but then we got our shit together and won 3 straight before being eliminated in the quarterfinals. We played really well, and probably should have won our last game, but we just didn't get the breaks. I think we hit 8 posts and wound up taking a 6-4 loss. Still, it was fun, and we've got nothing to feel bad about. Actually, I feel terrible, but it's mostly bumps and bruises and muscles that are absolutely furious with the way they've been treated for the last 48 hours. I'm sure I'll be fine by June.

Also, Saturday was Pi Day! Some friends of mine had a Pie Party, and I ate WAY TOO MUCH pie and felt kind of sick. Still, I think that Pie Day might be my new favourite day.

Last but not least, my curling team took home not one, but TWO trophies last night at the wind-up for the Sunday Night Rec League at the Nutana Curling Club. First, we somehow won the "D" division, and second, we won the Funspiel, which was really just dumb luck. I'm running out of room over the fireplace for all my curling trophies, all. Recognize my extra-greatness.

Freak out with your leek out,

T.

Comic Time!

2009-03-12T23:24:00.001-07:00

Yaaaaaay comics!

Daft

2009-03-11T22:49:00.001-07:00

How can something so simple keep me entertained for so long?

SMBC

2009-03-10T12:11:00.001-07:00

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1451#comic

Blurp

2009-03-09T23:48:00.000-07:00

On Friday, I went to "The Watchmen". It was awesome. The movie was a brilliant adaptation of the comic, and Rorschach kicked every bit as much ass as he was supposed to. After the movie, I went to Amigo's, which is where Anne was celebrating her birthday. I had a very strange conversation with a girl I didn't know; She asked me if I was enjoying the show, and I told her that it was so good that I pooped in my pants a little. Now, if someone told me that they had such a good time that they pooped, I would assume they were joking. Not this girl. I actually had to explain to her that I hadn't shat in my pants. Some people.

On Saturday, I did nothing of consequence.

On Sunday, I went curling, and we're near the end of the season, so we had a skins game. The first 7 ends were worth $4, and the 8th end was worth $12. Normally, our curling team is pretty horrible, but last night we played pretty well, and we wound up winning ALL THE MONEY. We spent said money on pitchers of beer and nachos, and for a brief, beautiful moment, all seemed right with the world.

Show up with your bro up,

T.

The Donger

2009-03-02T10:27:00.000-08:00

I need to use the word "donger" more.

http://badgods.com/ettin.html

T.

Tuesday

2009-02-25T09:00:00.000-08:00

Tuesday - Slept in, eased into my day slowly, finally got dressed and headed out around 1:00. Walked around and took in some sights, poked around a few shops, and had a wicked donair for lunch. I had enough of getting rained on, so I headed back to the apartment to watch episodes of South Park. (It's so humid here that nothing dries. My tuque was wet from the rain on Sunday. It is now Wednesday morning, and the tuque has been hanging up for 2 days, and it is still damp. This irks me.)

Kev has a night class on Tuesdays, so we grabbed a quick bite at Vera's, a burger joint that is very good, but not as good as Wally's. I had a burger with a smokey on it, yam fries, and a blackberry milkshake. After supper, I was planning to go to a movie, but instead I fell asleep on the couch for like an hour. After Kev got home from his Japanese class, we hung out watching stupid Japanese shit on the internet until it was time for sleep. Part of me thinks that I should have made more of my day, but the larger, more belligerent part of me is all "Fuck that. I'm on goddamn vacation, and I can do whatever the shit I want. So eat a bag of dicks." Parts of me are very rude.
Day Score : 7 out of 10

My Trip So Far...

2009-02-24T10:26:00.000-08:00

Here is a day-by-day breakdown of my adventures in Vancouver so far...

Saturday - Arrive in Vancouver at 6:45 p.m. I go to my friend Liz's house, we go out for Ethiopian food (which is AWESOME!), then we go back to her place and watch "The Venture Brothers". Day Score : 8.5 out of 10.

Sunday - I'm planning on spending Sunday night at my cousin Kevin's place, so after breakfast, I ask Liz if it's ok for me to leave my luggage at her place while I'm roaming around the city for the day. She assures me that I'll be able to pick it up later. I go to Science World and spend a couple of hours poking around the exhibits. Lunchtime rolls past, so in a flash of inspiration, I decide I want to go to "Wally's Burgers"! (For those of you who don't know, Wally's is the my favourite place in Vancouver, and serves the best burger I've ever had in my life.

Wally's is about 30 blocks away from my current location, but it's a beautiful day and I've got nothing but time, so I decide to walk. After walking for about an hour and a quarter, I get to Wally's. At least, I get to where Wally's is supposed to be. In it's place, there's just a huge frigging crater in the ground. Wally's is gone. I nearly break down in tears, but instead, I just turn around and start walking back to Liz's place so I can pick up my things. The return trip takes almost an hour and a half.

The buzzer for Liz's apartment doesn't work, so I call her from a payphone a block from her place. When I call her, she says "Um, I kind of...did something". It turns out that she's got a new roommate moving in, and she gave this new roommate her key. Because of the ridiculous amount of security in the building, you can't open the front door, call the elevator, press a button inside the elevator, or use the stairs without your key. This means that she can't let me into the building or bring me my stuff, because if she leaves her room, she won't be able to get back in. Her new roommate is at work, halfway across the city, and won't be back until 2:00 a.m.

At this point, it begins to rain.

I call my cousin Kev, and he gives me directions to get to his place. The directions work like a charm (it's so nice to be in a place where the public transit system isn't a goddamn joke), and he has a couple of his friends over for supper. We eat burritos and drink wine and beer. This improves my mood immensely. Day Score : -500 out of 10.

Monday - After a lazy morning, I wander downtown to "Action Pants" headquarters, which is where Kevin works. They're working on a couple of super-secret games that I'm not allowed to talk about because I had to sign an N.D.A. before they let me into the building. Suffice to say that it's a cool place, but Kev was telling me that "Action Pants" just got bought by UbiSoft, and nobody's really sure yet what that's going to mean.

Kev and I go out for lunch with a couple of his co-workers. We go to a place called "Phat", and I have the smoked-meat eggs benedict with hash browns. So Good! After lunch, I walk down the sea wall and enjoy being in a place where "outside" isn't shitty.

For supper, we go to "Gyoza King", where I eat entirely too much sushi. Then it's time for me to make my way back to Liz's place to retrieve my luggage. To my surprise, I do this without incident. I can now change my clothes. This makes me happy. Day Score : 7 out of 10.

Now it's Tuesday. I woke up about 45 minutes ago after sleeping for something like 11 hours, so thus far it's been a good day. We'll see what happens when I try to go outside. Wish me luck.

ps Blogger doesn't let you use "!" in post labels. Good job, Blogger. One more stupid thing that pisses me off ever so slightly. I'm sure there's a great reason for this, really.

Goin' Out West Where I Belong...

2009-02-21T11:26:00.000-08:00

I'm headed to Vancouver this afternoon. I'll be in Van for 3-4 days, and then out to Nanaimo for a couple. It feels good to be going. I'll tell you all about it when I get back, unless that it's so awesome out there that I decide not to come back at all. It's happened before.

T.

Happy V.D.!

2009-02-14T15:21:00.001-08:00

The "Game Screenshot Game"

2009-02-03T05:00:00.000-08:00

Name the Game! Guess it right, get a point.

BB goodness

2009-01-28T22:34:00.001-08:00

As I'm sure you know, I'm a big fan of Blood Bowl. It's my favourite game ever. So it's killing me to wait 5 more months to play the new PC version that's due out in June. But the good folks at Focus have finally started promoting this game, and they've released a couple of short little animations that made me all nipply. Watch them here.

Since we're talking about videogames, I need some advice. I'm pretty much finished with "Fallout 3", and "Dawn of War" couldn't hold my interest, and I'm almost at the end of "Half-Life 2" (I think). So tell me, what game should I play next? I never played "Doom 3", though I watched Buttery B play it back in the Big Pink, and it looked pretty damn cool. Speaking of ol' B, he recommended I play "Mass Effect", which I don't know anything about.

And don't tell me to play WoW. Under no circumstances would I pay to play it, and I doubt that I would play it even if it was free. MMOs just don't do it for me, though WAR almost tempted me into giving the genre another try...anyway, I know that pretty much all of the people who read this blog play videogames. So tell me what you're playing, and what you think I should play.

And Rilla, I wanna borrow Jagged Alliance 2. I'm seriously.

Specialness

2009-01-22T20:33:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Ben for introducing me to "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal".

Mashup

2009-01-06T19:06:00.000-08:00

If I told you that this was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen, would you think there was something wrong with me?

T.

Video Fun Time!

2009-01-05T22:40:00.000-08:00

I know that this has been around for a while, but MAN is it funny. go watch it right now. It's not like you've got anything else to do. If you did, you wouldn't be wasting your time on my stupid blog that I don't update enough and never has anything cool on it.

Where was I? Oh yeah, go watch the video, fool.

Happy New Year, All.

2009-01-03T19:51:00.000-08:00

It's been a while, so I'll sum up:

Christmas - Awesome
New Year's Eve - Awesome
Being Back in Saskatoon - Sucks

I was up at the lake for the holidays, and 8 days wasn't enough. The city is LAME, y'all. Here is a list of things I got for Christmas:

A Sweater that my mom knit
2 pairs of pants
"The Religion" by Tim Willocks
A pair of mitts (they match the sweater!)
"Bender's Game", the Futurama movie
A bottle of cherry liqueur
And probably other stuff that I'm forgetting.

I've been following the World Junior Hockey Championships, and I sure hope that you have been too, because there have been some spectacular games. The round-robin match between Canada and the U.S. was a classic, as was Canada's semi-final tilt with the Russians. And the biggest upset of the tournament went to the Slovaks, who knocked off the Americans in the quarter-finals.

Here is something cool.

That's all for now. Bye.

T.

Nerds Destroy the World

2008-12-21T14:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/

Sometimes, I wanna smash stuff.

T.

Happy St. Nicholas Day!

2008-12-06T07:44:00.001-08:00

St. Nicholas Day is one of my favouritist days of the year! Why? Because if you've been good, St. Nicholas sneaks into your house and leaves you a big pile of cookies and chocolates and candy! Also, his nickname is "Shaggy Goat", which is just about the best nickname you can have.

"In Germany, St. Nicholas is also known as Klaasbuur, Sunnercla, Burklaas, Bullerklaas, and Rauklas, and in eastern Germany, he is also known as Shaggy Goat, Ash Man and Rider and is more reflective of earlier pagan influences (Norse) that were blended in with the figure of St. Nicholas, when Christianity came to Germany."

So not only does he have some cool nicknames, he's also a Viking! That's awesome!

OK, I gotta go have breakfast. Stay warm, kids.

T.

Malapropisms for "Malapropism"

2008-11-27T17:56:00.000-08:00

Mall-Cop Prison
Pal Proposition
Ball Opposition
Salad Pop Jism

I'm bored.

EDIT - Also, Melonball Prism

What Would Jesus Buy?

2008-11-24T23:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/132508/detail/

T.

Polite to Canadians

2008-11-22T15:08:00.001-08:00

From marriedtothesea.com

La Mer

2008-11-20T17:39:00.000-08:00

I didn't know this until today, but Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" was originally this song by Charles Trenet. Ah, internet. What can't you teach me?

I need ideas for how to spend my Christmas money that my dad gave me. Send in your suggestions, and if I like your idea, I'll use my money on it. If I don't like your idea, I'll punch you real hard in the shoulder next time I see you.* The winning idea gets a prize! If nobody sends me an idea that I really like, I'll probably just spend the money on pizza, beer, and videogames, so keep in mind that your idea has to be better than pizza, beer, and videogames. Good luck topping that.

T.

*by sending me your idea, you agree that I get to punch you if I don't like it, and you aren't allowed to hit me back or seek revenge against me in any other way, ever.

Pirates

2008-11-18T17:55:00.000-08:00

Still think Pirates are cool? I do.

Weekend

2008-11-16T13:49:00.000-08:00

I had a pretty good weekend. I hung out with my roommates and had some drinks on Friday night, then I went out for Dim Sum on Saturday afternoon with Arlan and Chantelle. We ran into Kirk and Anne at the bakery, so we went to Amigo's for drinks. Then Saturday night, I hung out with my friend Kristen and a couple of her pals and we watched the UFC PPV. Then I got woken up at the ungodly hour of 11:30 by Rilla, asking me if I wanted to go to Crepe Club, which of course I did, so she and Jeff came and got me so we could go eat crepes. And I've got curling tonight, which is a fine way to cap off a fine weekend.

Of course, all of this fun-having has meant that I didn't get nearly enough sleep this weekend, which wouldn't be a big deal except that I hardly got any sleep LAST week, and I've done enough sleep-deprivation experiments on myself to know that I'm getting really close to that point where my body is going to completely shut down for like 3 days, just to show me what a tool I am.

I don't even remember the last time I felt well-rested. This blows.

T.

Remix

2008-11-09T23:32:00.001-08:00

Remember last time when I gave you those links to stuff I liked? Well, here's the super-extendo version of Mega Man.

I don't know why I find these sorts of things so satisfying. I'll give you another one, done by the same guy. It's the victory music from Final Fantasy.

Enjoy!

T.

ps This is my favourite one yet!

T.I.V.

2008-11-08T21:47:00.000-08:00

The TIV, or Tornado Intercept Vehicle, is now officially the COOLEST thing you can drive around. It takes it's place at the front of the line ahead of Airwolf, Kitt, Frankenstein's car from Death Race 2000 , and the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. Plus, it gets better gas mileage than a Hummer.

A Comic About Me

2008-11-07T11:38:00.000-08:00

I read Married to the Sea every day, but today, Rilla read it before I did, and she sent me the link to today's installment. It seems to be about me...

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/110708/about-seventy.gif

I'd say that's a fairly accurate likeness.

T.

Sore

2008-11-03T21:25:00.000-08:00

I played hockey tonight, and now I'm super-extra sore. Some of it is that good got-some-exercise sore, but some of it is that bad shitty-knee and ankles-hate-me kind of sore.

I've been spending most of my free time playing Fallout 3, which has made me want to play Deadlands. Post-apocalypse is probably my favourite genre, and Fallout might be my favourite series of games, so I'm happy that Bethesda didn't screw the new one up now that they're at the helm.

I signed up for the Beta test of "Champions Online", so I've got that to look forward to. And my mom's car is FINALLY fixed (41 days later), so I'm not driving the rental car anymore, which means that I'm back to being a pedestrian. That sucks.

Not much else is new. I got to hang out with Tyson on the weekend, that was cool. And I'm kicking 10 kinds of ass in my hockey pool so far this year. I know it's early, but I've put together a pretty impressive string of victories in my Yahoo pool, and I'm way out in front. Brodeur's injury could fuck me, though, so that could bring me back to the pack.

Enough about me; how have you been?

T.

Soundgarden - Dusty

2008-10-19T18:10:00.001-07:00

RULES

1. put your music player on shuffle
2. for each question press the 'next' button to get your answer

if someone says 'is that ok' you say : Princess Crocodile - Gry w. F.M. Einheit
would best describe your personality : Torn Screen Door - David Francey
what do you like in a guy or girl : Leaving On a Jetplane - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
how do you feel today : Lay Down My Worries - Harry Manx
what is your life's purpose : Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues - Bob Dylan
what is your motto : Low - Cracker
what do your friends think of you : So Far Away - Dire Straits
what do you think of often : Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
what do you think of your best friend : So High, So Low - Ben Harper
what do you think of the person you like : Walking in the Air - George Winston
what is your life story : Burrow Your Way to My Heart - Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
what do you want to be when you grow up : Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
what do you think when you see the person you like : Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
what do your parents think of you : Seeing Angels - John Butler Trio
how will you feel at your funeral : Mussolini vs Stalin - Gogol Bordello
what will they play at your wedding : Truth Untold - The Odds
what is your hobby or interest : My Biznitch is the Shiznit - Tenacious D
what is your biggest fear : Who Loves the Sun - Teenage Fanclub
what is your biggest secret : Wrong Side of the Tracks - Strung Out
What do you think of your friends : I'll Never Smoke Weed With Willy Again - Toby Keith
what song will you repost this as : Soundgarden - Dusty

ps Will somebody please be this guy's friend? I feel really, really sorry for him.

Two Things that I really enjoy

2008-10-19T02:51:00.000-07:00

Thing one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL30lU26egw

Thing two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-QsHrhlrMo

These totally made my day.

T.

pfft.

2008-10-17T22:40:00.000-07:00

I went to an art opening tonight, because my friend Jesse's band was playing. They put on a really good show, but I was in kind of a weird mood, so I split early. I felt like I should have been having a good time, but for some reason, I wasn't, and that kind of pissed me off, so then I was having an even worse time, so then I went home. I guess I wasn't feeling very social this evening.

I swear, man. This whole "impending winter" thing is fucking me up, and I don't know whether there's anything I can do about it.

Comic Time!

2008-10-13T22:22:00.000-07:00

http://xkcd.com/488/

Thanksgiving and Wedding

2008-10-13T18:03:00.000-07:00

I went to a wedding in P.A. this Thanksgiving weekend. My cousin Cecette got hitched, and my family is a pretty good time, so weddings are always fun. I got up to the lake for a couple of days, and the weather was just about perfect. I took my boat out of the water this afternoon, and doing that always makes me a little sad, even though I didn't use my boat at all this summer. Actually, that makes me pretty sad too.

I've been kind of shitty lately. I feel like crap and I don't have any energy. I also havn't been sleeping that well, but I think that's a symptom, and not a cause. Well, maybe it's a bit of both. All last week it was cold and rainy and just generally ass-y, and the weather suited my mood perfectly. I'm not looking forward to winter. If only it were possible for me to hibernate...maybe I'll give that a try. See you in the spring, jerk-offs.

Weekend

2008-09-28T14:22:00.001-07:00

I had a nice relaxing weekend up at Emma with Arlan and Chantel. It felt good to get up there again, I really needed to get out of the city. I took my camera so I could take pictures of the fall colours, but then I forgot to take any pictures. What do I even have a camera for? I wanted one for the longest time, and now that I've got one, I always forget to use it. Dammit!

Here's a game I found: type "(your name) likes to" into Google, and see what comes up. Make a list of the ones that could apply to you. Ready? GO!

1. Tomas likes to kick and stretch.
2. Tomas likes to move it move it.
3. Tomas likes to visit the library.
4. Tomas likes to hear Papa Grande's stories.
5. Tomas likes to listen to his Grandfather.
6. Tomas likes to fire hard.
7. Tomas likes to sleep on my chest or shoulder.
8. Tomas likes to sleep and play 'Halo'.
9. Tomas likes to swallow balloons.
10. Tomas likes to rip up flowers.
11. Tomas likes to drink.

YAY!

T.

YARRRRRRRRRR!

2008-09-19T19:24:00.000-07:00

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day! Here is something funny for you to look at.

Fuck You Friday

2008-09-12T17:34:00.000-07:00

I LOVE Fuck You Friday!

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=09122008

Also, signs with incorrect punctuation make me SO MAD. They make me MAD inside my HEAD!

In other news, I got into a car accident. It weren't my doin', it was the fault of the girl who done shmacked into me. I mean, uh, it wasn't my fault. So it's not going to cost me anything, but still. Still a big ol' piss-off. Maybe I'll write a punk song about it.

100 Reasons

2008-09-07T19:22:00.000-07:00

I'm not normally a really political guy, for reasons that I don't feel like explaining right now, but you should go check this out.

http://www.100reasons.ca/

DO IT! DO IT NOW!

T.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

2008-08-19T12:09:00.000-07:00

http://www.bloodbowl-game.com/teaser/

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

R.F.F.

2008-08-13T11:29:00.000-07:00

I spent last weekend in Regina for the Folk Festival. The Rollo sisters were kind enough to let me stay with them for the weekend, and I had a really excellent time. Bellowhead and Broken Social Scene were really good on Friday night, and Michael Franti and Spearhead closed the show on Sunday with an amazing set. Mr. Franti came down into the audience after the show, and I had a chance to shake his hand and thank him for one of the finest performances I've ever seen live.

We attended the after-party on Friday and Saturday nights, which was sweet, even though it was a huge pain in the ass to get drinks. I mean seriously, if you want to make money selling booze, maybe you should figure out how to SELL PEOPLE BOOZE. Just a thought.

All in all, it was a pretty awesome weekend. Sometimes I feel like I don't spend enough time doing the things that really make me happy, and it meant a lot to me just to have the chance to enjoy some music and spend some time with a few of the people who matter the most to me. It seems awfully strange, somehow, that I would need to be reminded about how much I enjoy those sorts of things. It's been like 10 years since I've been up to Ness Creek, and it's probably been 15 years since I've been to the Winnipeg festival. Oh well. I'm thinking of heading down to the Field festival in Craik on the 13-14 of September. Maybe I'll see you there.

T.

My Stupid Life

2008-07-31T21:59:00.000-07:00

This has happened to me...

http://mitchclem.com/mystupidlife/30/

My Day was Sweet

2008-07-29T23:42:00.000-07:00

Today after work, Arlan and I biked down to the river. Once we got there, we decided to pick Saskatoon berries, since they're frigging everywhere right now. We didn't have a bag/basket/bucket to put them in, so Arlan tied some knots in his shirt to make a bag while singing a song that went something like,

If you need a bag,
Figure out a way,
Then you'll have a bag to put stuff in.

It was catchy. Anyways, after that nonsense, we biked home, ate nachos, and drank some drinks. Then we dug Devin's Magic cards out of the basement and played Magic for a couple of hours. You remember Magic? Playing that game was like hanging out with an old friend. I had forgotten how much fun it is. Devin even had like 8 decks ready to go, 'cause that's the kind of guy Devin is. Now it's late, and I'm tired, so y'all can go screw off and find something else to do. I'ma go to bed.

T.

What The Damn?

2008-07-28T23:20:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugriWSmRxcM

I don't understand this. And I find that SO FRUSTRATING.

T.

Tired

2008-07-28T11:43:00.000-07:00

I had an awesome weekend, but now it's Monday and the awesome is all worn off, leaving me exhausted and hurty. I saw my friend Katie and my friend Matt, and that made me happy. I threw a really good party on Friday night, and I had a good time at the bar on Saturday night, and I got to see relatives from both sides of my family on Sunday, so yay for that. Good times all the way around, but very little time for things like sleeping. Whatever, I hate sleeping anyways. Waste of time is what I say.

I've really got to do something about my boat situation. For those of you who don't know, my gas tank got stolen out of my shed, and the stupid fartface Honda dealership wants TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS for a gas tank and a hose, which is such a massive screwjob, it makes me mad just thinking about it. I mean, I can get a tank and a hose for 50 bucks at Canuck Wheel, but of course the hose won't fit my engine. So I think I'm going to try and just order the connector from Honda and stick it on the end of any old hose, and then Honda can go screw themselves. Jerks.

Thrown out with your bone out,

T.

Grinding It Out

2008-07-21T11:45:00.000-07:00

I stuck my finger in the grinder at work today. Not a real good move, I know. It seemed like such a good idea at the time, but looking back on it, it's like, what was I thinking? And now it hurts a little to type this.

Not much new with me lately, hence the lack of updates. I've been spending my weekends up at the lake, and my weekdays sticking my finger in the grinder at work. So that sucks. I went to Taste of Saskatchewan last week, and it was pretty good, but MAN was it crowded. People were packed in so tight I could hardly move, let alone find a place to sit down and eat the food that I was being overcharged for. It's a frigging OUTDOOR event, how can you not have enough space?

I was going to go up to Ness creek on the weekend, but then Anne bailed on me because she had to help her sister bartend some stupid wedding at the art camp. So instead of going to the music festival, I went to the reception and drank a bunch of free booze.

It's too nice a day for me to be inside, bitching about stuff on my blog. I'm going outside, and so should you. What else are you gonna do, sit around and refresh your inbox all day? Huh? That is what you're gonna do, isn't it? Asshole.

Now, I'll leave you with one of my new favourite things, A Softer World.

Clean 'er out with your weiner out,

T.

Blog Entry 129: Morale Low

2008-06-27T11:39:00.000-07:00

So, I was working on a blog entry all about my camping trip to Oscar Lake and the state of my world in general over the last few weeks. Then, after I spent roughly fifteen minutes composing my entry and uploading pictures for your viewing pleasure, there was some kind of BIG PROBLEM and I lost everything I had done, which caused me to GET MAD and not post anything at all.

So maybe after the long weekend I'll post some pictures of my camping trip. They're totally sweet, though if you're my facebook friend, you've already seen the best one.

In other news, I went to my cousin Michael's wedding in Winnipeg last weekend. It was lots for fun, and there were parties, and the food was excellent, and the booze was free. What more can a dude who likes food and booze ask for? (Answer: large-breasted Asian girl with low standards).

Off to my lake for the long weekend. I'm super-duper excited to get up there, even more than usual, because Canada Day always gives me a chance to see people that I havn't hung out with in a while.

Check 'er out with your pecker out,

T.

My Berfday

2008-06-10T12:29:00.000-07:00

I celebrated my birthday a couple of times these last few days. I had a shindig on Saturday night up at Emma, and it was a pretty awesome time. I whipped up a mess of Chicken Adobo, and a pile of potato salad, and we had booze and food and good times to spare. Then last night my boy Lee had hisself a barbeque, so I got to celebrate my birthday again! There were ribs and garlic toast and cake and pie...and scotch. Lots of scotch. But once again, the "birthday blessing" held true: No matter what I do to myself on my birthday, I don't wake up with a hangover. I can't explain it, and I don't understand it, but it's true, and I'm glad.

I'm planning a little excursion up to Oscar Lake next weekend. I probably won't post until after that, but maybe if you're lucky I'll give you some pictures to look at.

T.

Ha Ha

2008-05-30T12:07:00.000-07:00

Man, people are stupid sometimes. But since people being stupid is my chief source of amusement, I'm o.k. with that.

Go here.

Also, I'm totally pissed off at Facebook right now. I tried to put together an invitation to my birthday party next weekend, and I couldn't create the event I wanted because Facebook doesn't recognize Emma Lake as a place. Fuck you, Facebook! Fuck you right in the ear with no lube!

T.

Fire

2008-05-29T00:13:00.001-07:00

We had a fire at work on Tuesday. This marks the 2nd time in my life that the place where I work has started to burn. The fire was actually in the salon downstairs from us; apparently somebody knocked over a candle and didn't notice until a whole bunch of stuff was burning. The fire department kicked everybody out of the building for a couple of hours, but we didn't get the rest of the day off, and since I don't actually spend any time in the building anyway, the fire had a surprisingly small impact on my day.

No other big news to report. I'll finally be putting my boat in this weekend, so I'm looking forward to that. And in a few weeks I'll be celebrating my birthday, so if you're going to be up around Emma Lake on the 7th, come to my birthday party!

Stand tall, y'all.

T.

We Should Read Comics in School

2008-05-14T12:25:00.001-07:00

When I was in high school, I got into an argument with my history teacher. Four years later, I had basically the same argument with my Native Studies teacher at the U of S. Both my teacher and my professor were of the opinion that Louis Riel was a hero to the Metis people, while my opinion was that he was a religious whacko with a messianic complex who so totally fucked up the rebellion that it had no chance of succeeding. I also suggested that had Gabriel Dumont been in charge, the outcome would have been drastically different. This opinion was not well recieved, and I did not do well in my Native Studies class. Fast-forward to this morning, when I discovered this comic on Kate Beaton's wonderful website, which you can find here.

Take that, Native Studies professor! Always remember, kids, just because something you say is unpopular, that doesn't make it wrong.

Check Out My Tunes!

2008-05-04T00:37:00.000-07:00

Follow the link to listen to my mix tape, you guys!

http://www.mixwit.com/widgets/8ec3ef01a6117766990250617fa8b461

I'm gonna spend hours fucking around with this, I just know it.

T.

See the Future

2008-05-01T17:59:00.000-07:00

Last night, Arlan and I were having a discussion about the state of the music industry, and how much commerical radio sucks. For some reason, Arlan decided that we should check what was actually ON the radio, right at that moment. On the way to the radio, I said to Arlan, "It's gonna be the Smashing Pumpkins."

Now, If you've known me for long enough, you may be familiar with what I refer to as my "3-second precognition." Once in a while, I am able to correctly predict the outcome of, say, the rolling of some dice, and it's weird. I can't do it on command, or anything; which sucks, because I can't ever predict things I WANT to predict, or things that actually matter, or anything like that. I've never thought too much of it, and it is usually just dismissed as coincidince by those who witness it. But when Arlan turned on the radio and heard Billy Corgan's voice whining out of his speakers, he looked at me with wide eyes and, after a moment of silence, said "Dude. That's FUCKED."

Maybe I've finally discovered my super-power. For my super-hero name, I think I'll go with "Cere-Bro."

Get Outta Town

2008-04-24T20:41:00.000-07:00

Screw you guys. I'm going to the lake.

T.

Ding Dong Doodley...

2008-04-17T21:23:00.000-07:00

It's been a while, so I'll do my best to update y'all on the important bits of the last couple weeks, ok? Cool.

I played in a poker tournament last weekend. I finished 2nd out of 78 guys and I won $275.00. I have used this money to buy beer, pizza, Ben Harper's latest CD, and a Sailor Dan* original.

I also went to my sister's/brother-in-law's birthday thing last Saturday. It was fun imes.

Not much else has happened to me in the last 2 weeks or so...Oh yeah! Arlan recruited me, Dev, and Brett to do some vocals for a new Moose Pipe Elk song, but I really shouldn't talk too much about that until it's finished. I don't wanna spoil the surprise.

Aside from that, I've pretty much just been hanging out in the basement, watching the first round of the playoffs unfold. All my drafts are looking like bullshit, so I don't know how interested I'll be past the first round, but you never know.

What with the good weather we've had the last few days, I put in a little time cleaning out the fire pit in the back yard. Then I built a fire and cooked some dogs and drank some beer. If there's a better time to be had in the backyard, I probably can't pronounce it.

running aroun' with your trousers down,

T.

*If you don't know who Sailor Dan is, then you aren't from Saskatoon.

Meat Fest

2008-03-30T08:50:00.000-07:00

Last night, I went to a party called "Meat Fest". The basic idea is that some dudes roasted a whole pig on a spit, and invited a bunch of people over to help them eat it. In addition to the pig, there was also burgers, sausages, bacon and chicken wings. There were also potatoes and piles of homemade bread, and a keg of beer.

Sorry, Christmas. Meat Fest is my new favourite holiday.

In other news, Get Off Your Cellphone, You Douche.

HVC

2008-03-17T20:25:00.000-07:00

Me and some of the other Geeks in Motion lads strapped 'em up and played in the High Voltage Classic this weekend. For those of you who don't know, the HVC is the annual road hockey tournament put on by the U of S engineers every spring. We took our lumps, but we played exceptionally well, and we had a good run. We started the tournament with a pair of lopsided victories before losing our final round-robin game 4-2 at 2:00 AM Sunday morning. We then won three straight elimintation games to get into the championship, where we faced off against the same team that had beaten us 14 hours earlier.

Unfortunately, they beat us again, 5-1, and we had to settle for 2nd place. Still, this was our best showing ever, and we can't be too unhappy with the result. Eddie, in particular, played his ass off, particularly in the semis. If he hadn't held us in that game for the first half, we never would have made it to the final. So after playing seven games in 27 hours and collecting dozens of welts, scrapes, and bruises, I gotta say that I had myself one damn fine weekend. And to top it all off, I got to go to the curling windup on Sunday night, where I finally got my trophy from two years ago! Woot!

Squirt out with your hurt out,

T.

Chili

2008-03-09T22:08:00.000-07:00

I made me some chili today, and man it is good! It is the goodest chili I have ever made! Of course, this is the first chili I have ever made, but still. It rules.

When I was making this chili, I didn't do a very good job of judging how MUCH chili I was going to make, so I wound up with an awful lot MORE chili than I was planning on. I actually had to finish a container of yogourt* that I had in the fridge so that I could fill it up with chili and put it in the freezer. At this rate, I won't need to cook again for a week, and by next week, I'll never want chili again, but whatever. Chili!

I went curling tonight, and we played a "skins" game, where each end was worth 4 dollars, except for the last one, which was worth 12 dollars. We only won three of the eight ends, but we did win the big money end, so we wound up with enough moolah to get two pitchers of beer. YAY!

Stick out with your dick out,

T.

*I wasn't sure how to spell yogourt, so I typed it into Google. Am I the only one who uses Google to check spelling? Probably not.

Raise the Roof

2008-02-29T21:07:00.000-08:00

I got a raise today! Hells yeah! I also changed the tire on the delivery car AGAIN. Boo-ra! Oh well. At least this time it wasn't -45. It's been nice here recently. everything has started to melt, which is cool, but everything's gonna look real dirty and gross until it gets warm enough for things to start growing, and we have a couple good rains to wash away all the shit that the snow leaves behind when it melts.

Speaking of stuff left behind when the snow melts, my roommate Arlan informed me a couple of days ago that he's been chucking random crap into the backyard all winter, so when the snow melts, I'm gonna make him go pick it all up. Well, first I'm gonna go see whether or not there's anything good back there, and THEN I'm gonna make him pick it all up. Then I'll probably light a huge fire in the fire pit out back and invite all my friends over to drink beer and cook hotdogs. YES! I can't WAIT for the snow to melt!

Spring out with your thing out,

T.

Yay!

2008-02-26T19:48:00.000-08:00

I found a new thing that I like! As usual, I will now share it with you. go here to check it out.

T.

ps You know what pisses me off? Whenever I type in the "labels" for my posts, Blogger automatically inserts a space everytime you hit the comma button, which totally throws me off, because I KNOW WHEN I NEED A GODDAMN SPACE. When Blogger puts one in for me, I wind up with extra spaces, which I then have to go back and remove, and as you well know, I HATE minor inconveniences. Hate them to HELL.

Blogger: constantly finding new ways to honk me off ever so slightly.

Guitar Breakthrough

2008-02-19T19:53:00.000-08:00

I was trying to teach myself how to play "Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding just now, and my brain amazed me by figuring something out without me telling it to! Toally on accident! I won't bore you with the particulars, because I don't think that anybody that reads this blog plays the guitar, but I basically figured out a different way to play the necessary chords. Not only was this different way a whole lot easier, it also sounded WAY better! That's AWESOME! I'm especially excited about this not because I can play a new song, but that this new bit of nollij can be applied to other songs I know, or songs that I will know in the future. I didn't just get better at "Dock of the Bay", I just became a better guitar player. I still suck, sure, but it's been a while since I felt like I was improving at anything.

More later. I gotta go practice.

T.

Xavier Rudd

2008-02-16T19:35:00.000-08:00

I went and saw Xavier Rudd with Jordan, Anne, and Kirk, and it was one of the best shows I've ever been to in my life. The crowd was really into it, and he played all the stuff I wanted to hear, and MAN is he amazing! I really can't do his performance justice by trying to describe it to you, so all I can do is tell you that if you have a chance to see him, do it.

I'm finally feeling a little better. The crippling illness has faded into something resembling a cold. I'm still coughing up gross stuff, but even though I'm still sick, I feel awesome compared to how I felt last week, so no complaints.

The weather has turned back to "awesome" again, so tomorrow I'm gonna do something outside, 'cause I don't know how long it's gonna last.

Stand tall, y'all,

T.

Sick

2008-02-09T19:41:00.000-08:00

I've come down with one of those nasty bugs that have been making the rounds lately, and I feel like hot garbage. I missed work yesterday; that's the first time I've called in sick to a job in nearly a decade. (Acually, I called in sick once this summer, but I wasn't actually sick. I was just pissed off at my boss.)

I slept for nearly 20 hours yesterday, and today I feel a little better. I still feel a long way from good, but I'm hoping that by monday I'll be well enough to make it to hockey.

Hope you're feeling better than I am,

T.

Way Below Freezing

2008-01-31T21:01:00.000-08:00

It has been unreasonably cold here the last few days. It's been so cold that I couldn't leave the house without pants like I said I was going to in my last post; if I had, I'm pretty sure my nuts would have crawled up inside me and my foreskin would have snapped off. And that would be shitty.

It was so cold that the doors on the bus froze shut, and the other passengers and I were trapped inside. It was so cold that I have frostbite on my nose from the three-minute walk from the busstop to my house. It was so cold that when I farted outside, the fart froze in midair, fell to the ground, and shattered into thousands of smelly little shards. OK, I made that last one up, but you get my point. It has been so cold that I've been seriously re-evaluating my decision to live here.

You want to know what's worse than driving around when it's 35 below? Changing a flat tire when it's 35 below. My day pretty much sucked. How was yours?

T.

Something I found on Drudge Report

2008-01-28T22:25:00.000-08:00

Go here to see what I found on Drudge Report. To me, the funniest thing about the article is that the name of the town is "Brattleboro".

Also, I've noticed that this blog has become a place where I post stuff I found online that I want you to see. That's fine, I guess, but this blog used to be about me, and lately, that hasn't been the case. I suppose that's because nothing of consequence has been seen by/done to me in quite a while. Am I in a rut? Maybe I'll try leaving the house tomorrow without pants, and see if that results in anything worth talking about. I never really liked pants anyway.

T.

My Normal Approach

2008-01-24T21:02:00.000-08:00

My smart-ass cousin Kev posted this little gem as a note on his bookface thing last month, and I liked it, so I stole it and put it on my blog for you all to enjoy.

Wipe out with your gripe out,

T.

More Cartoony Goodness

2008-01-17T19:27:00.000-08:00

I just about spat water all over my computer, this comic made me laugh so hard. I think it's only funny to me because the drawing looks SO MUCH like Jordan and Anne's hell-dog, Ginger.

What a fuckin' stupid looking dog! Ha ha!

Natalie Dee

2008-01-16T18:10:00.001-08:00

I just discovered a new thing that I like! Here it is!

I likes to laugh.

T.

Keg Party and Curling

2008-01-13T20:49:00.000-08:00

Lee celebrated his birthday on Saturday, so I spent most of Sunday recovering. I slept for roughly 16 hours, then I went curling. Now I'm going back to bed. I hope you all feel better than I do. Blech.

T.

Achewood - Beef's Blog

2008-01-08T11:41:00.000-08:00

I really liked Roast Beef's blog entry this week, mostly because I can relate to the idea of getting all worked up over a conversation about something that I shouldn't give a shit about to begin with. Check it out here.

T.