Monthly Archives: September 2003

That's the way to do it

So, I’ll admit it. I’m one of those, “last minute” grocery people during imminent natural disasters. Oh yeah, that’s me, in line, with the milk, and the cereal, and the bottled water.

I have the day off today, which was convenient for people like me. So I went to Joe’s, down the street, and I was in line with about half a dozen other people.

I finished my transaction and filled up my bag, when the next person in line came up with their items.

Two small limes.

“Going to ride out the storm with gin and tonics?”

“You know it.”

We shared a laugh and I went back home, suddenly realizing that I had forgotten orange juice.

Euh. . .

Guacamole Doritos make me shudder. Not in anticipation, but in fear. What ever happened to non powdered guacamole, the kind made 30 minutes before the party, with a squeeze of lime, and just the right amount of kick?

Like how Sarah makes hers?

How these things get there

So, we’re at Dave and Busters in White Flint, and we’re all there doing the redemption ticket games because they’re fun. FuriousGeorge gets all of our tickets together and we find out that we’ve got enough to get us all a little something. So we all get harmonicas, which is funny because none of us can play the harmonica, and besides, they’re crappy harmonicas, right?

So we get the harmonicas, and I get a kazoo, too, since we’ve got extra tickets.

Then JungFroid sees us with our harmonicas and he gets all mopey because he doesn’t have one. So he plays a few of the games, and pretty soon he gets enough tickets to get a harmonica. He’s pretty happy, I mean, he’s all psyched up about how he’s got a harmonica. He even buys the rest of us kazoos, much to the disappointment of the people in the booths next to us.

So we’re playing our kazoos, doing “best video game themes” and “songs from the 80s,” and making horrible squinching noises with the harmonicas.

One hour and one almost fistfight later, it’s time for us to leave, so we get in our cars and we start the drive home. FuriousGeorge lives out in VA, so he’s in the car with JungFroid.

Not two miles out from WhiteFlint, JungFroid pulls up next to my car. I’m not looking, but Yuriko Kinje informs me that he’s got the window open with the harmonica in his mouth, both hands on the steering wheel. We’re going about 35 miles per hour at this point. It’s a nice night, and I’ve got all the windows open.

I hear two blasts of a harmonica, and then silence.

My car erupts into laughter.

On the third toot of the harmonica, he managed to blow it out of his mouth, through the window, and onto Rockville Pike.

FuriousGeorge: I couldn’t breathe for five minutes, I was laughing so hard.

So, when you see the remnants of a harmonica somewhere between White Flint and Grosvenor metro station. . . Yeah, that’s how it got there.

Well, the weather's nice.

Today looks sunny and warm with a 70% chance of short skirts and flip flops throughout the midmorning and up until noon. Afterwards, there is a 45% chance of midriff, peaking mid afternoon with a 10% chance of low rise jeans until early cleavage.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR CONDITIONS AND WILL ISSUE MORE STATEMENTS AS NEEDED.

Groceries. . . NOW!

Anyone have a zipcar account? I really uh, need to run some errands. Ones that require me to travel over 100mph on twisty back roads.


Yes, this is the phone camera’s default resolution.

No, really, does anyone have a zipcar account? I mean it.