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Door-to-door tattoos January 30, 2006

This is from last week sometime, but I just thought of it again. There was a story on the evening news where several people had gotten infections from tattoos they got from a guy going door-to-door. They interviewed several of them and they described how this guy had equipment that was clearly home-made.

My mind boggles at the absurdity of this. I find hard to frame it in words even. In what frame of mind do you have to be in to open your door, see a guy with home-made tattoo gear, and think this is likely to end well? Not only that, but multiple people had gotten infections from this guy, which means this seemed like a reasonable thing to more than one person. Scary.

Scary King January 28, 2006

Is it just me or are the Burger King commercials with the King in them just plain disturbing? They give me the willies.

Boom-Boom January 27, 2006

Ella has an ever-expanding set of imaginary friends that slip in and out on a daily basis. The first and oldest is Boom-Boom, who’s been with us for at least a year, maybe longer. He often shows up in the car when we’re going places or when Ella is playing, especially if Truman isn’t around. He typically happens to be wearing the same thing as her and wants to do the same things.

Sometime late last year Grandma showed up. She has pink hair and a pink dog. She’s around occasionally, but not too often. Usually when Ella’s playing with her toys I think.

The newest friends are her monster friends that she likes to read to in her room – they are purple and pink. Not sure what their names are. We usually hear about them in the morning.
And then there are a host of other friends that pop in and out, usually friends of Boom-Boom. They all have names like Ah-ah and Ba-ba.

So far, Truman hasn’t had any – seems like he’s getting into that age when Ella’s first showed up but I don’t know if he’ll have some or not.

T-man talking January 24, 2006

Truman has really been talking up a storm lately – he seems to know words for everything now. The most recent favorites are words for Ella: “sister” and “Ella”, although he pronounces “Ella” as “Aiya”. He’s got just about all the characters from Sesame Street and Winnie the Pooh down, too. Some older favorites are “baboon” and “turtle”.

Ella’s been a pistol lately. Hopefully a short-lived phase but she’s been throwing some monster tantrums over ridiculous stuff.

Oxygen requires Chuck Norris to live. January 23, 2006

Lists of Chuck Norris quotes have been making the rounds on the net. Here’s a page to see new Chuck “facts”: fact generator. The top rated ones are at Top 30.

Some of my favorites:

• Chuck Norris invented the spoon because using knives to kill people was just too easy.
• Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.
• The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
• When Chuck Norris sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. Chuck Norris has not had to pay taxes ever
• Superman owns a pair of Chuck Norris pajamas.
• There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck
  Norris has allowed to live.
• There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.
• Chuck Norris has two speeds: walk and kill.