FRIENDS- WEIRD TIMES INDEED… AS THE NEWS SEEMS TO TURN EVER MORE GRIM BY THE HOUR, WE’VE FOUND OURSELVES VACILLATING WILDLY BETWEEN FEELING LIKE THERE MAY BE HOPE AT TIMES TO UTTER DESPAIR – OFTEN CHANGING MINUTE TO MINUTE. ALTHOUGH EACH OF US DEFINE OURSELVES AS ANTISOCIAL-TYPES WHO PREFER BEING ON...

I am not driving this beauty - just picked up a 2020 Volvo XC60 at teh start of March. Traded in 2 cars - a 2017 Murano & a 2012 Jaguar XF. Didn't need 2 cars in retirement. Test drove an Audi Q5, a Mercedes GLC300 and a Jag FPace. The Volvo came out on top, followed closely by teh Audi and the Merc...

I've been enjoying a daily dose of an offbeat Australian sitcom called 'Offspring' on Netflix. Think of Fleabag Down Under. There are 7 seasons and I am finishing up season 2. The heroine is a cute blond slightly neurotic baby doctor (with the unusual real life name Asher Keddie). Her older sister, ...

this is kinda fun

http://www.minimalsworld.net/BrazilName/brazilian.shtml

My Brazilian name is Murra. I was hoping for something a little more exotic.

What's your name?

This is funny stuff:

http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/mj-credit-card/

It's long, but well worth the read

...to Nine Inch Nails and Trail of Dead at Sasquatch (Gorge May 26th). Will I see any of you other NW monkeys there? I'll probably be the only Grandpa in attendance (no biggee, I'm getting used to it). I'd love to catch the other two days as well but realistically that just ain't gonna happen. Shoul...

I am buying a motorcycle later in the spring. They are dangerous toys and I should know better, but I have been bitten by the bug so I'm throwing caution to the wind. Anyway I want you all to think about your driving habits behind a car's wheel and whether you really do look out for motorcycles at i...

This guy is sooo generous. He is donating a whopping $4 from every ornament sale to the Red Cross. That leaves $36 for himself. http://www.christopherradko.com/DisplayDetail.aspx?which=2106 Hey I have an idea. I think I'll send $40 to the Red Cross, and skip this sale altogether. Sheesh what a shyst...

Damn, Europe is a photogenic continent!

I have seen Kolya. I remember liking it a lot.

(BTW Eric, I finally got 'i am sofa king we todd it') Only took about a year or so.

If someone wants to bring a couple bags of ice that'd also be cool. Feel free to e-mail me at aldrichster@gmail.com and tell me what you plan on bringing, that way we won't have ten bags of tortilla chips with salsa and six watermelons show up.

Murrdogg chiming in. We will provide the entrees (salmon and guacamole burgers) plus a fruit salad, cole slaw and nachos. Party-goers are welcome to bring an appetizer, salad or dessert of your choice, plus whatever you want to drink. Along with croquet I will also be setting up the badminton court ...

Most ridiculous nomination Jamie Foxx - Best Supporting Actor - Collateral Foxx was in every scene in that film. Supporting???? Nominations that made me smile Thomas Haden Church - Best Supporting Actor - Sideways The same criticism could be used here as well. How was Church's performance not judge...

These are just a few from the heyday of Rock 1968 - Jimi Hendrix - Ventura Co. Fairgrounds 1968 - Cream with Santana Blues Band opening - Robertson Gym UCSB 1968 - the Doors - Earl Warren Showgrounds - Santa Barbara 1969 - Iron Butterfly - Earl Warren 1969 - Grateful Dead with New Riders opening - H...

Time for my yearly check-in on this Internet game http://www.youbettheirlife.com/ If you've never been to this site, it is a tongue-in-cheek game whereby people predict who will die in a given year, and then collect some dough when a few off their lists actually do die that year. What I find remarka...

You know it is just friggin' uncanny how many times I am exactly the one millionth visitor to a website.

Before Sunrise takes place in Vienna, not Venice

Hey you're right Roger, I hadn't noticed the resemblance before now but it is pretty uncanny. The guy's actual name is Nikolitidis and he was brilliant in the finals, another 1-0 squeaker decided by a header off of a corner kick. The place I was at went absolutely nuts. Later, the party spilled out ...

While I'm in here I thought I'd mention that a very improbable sports story is unfolding here in Greece right now. For those who don't follow soccer at all (or football as it's known in the other 182 countries where it's the main sport), for the past two 1/2 weeks the tournament known as Euro2004 ha...

Wouldn'cha know but by the time I read this my birthday was already over. No matter, I appreciate the sentiments. Let's avoid using the word 'Grecian' though could we? When you get to be 51, that's a word that you just as soon not hear much of, alongside 'receding', 'senior' and 'prostate'. (Does an...

cool, I don't think I can ever remember being referred to as 'murr-dawg' before... Actually my grandma's breadbox was large enough to hold several loaves of bread, so it was larger than a small microwave. I'd put the dimensions at around 18" wide, 10" high, 12" deep. Maybe it was an especially large...

For those of you not currently residing in Pugetopolis, we had a meteorite event two nights ago that has people here talking. Apparently around 2:40am a meteorite managed to make its way all the way through the atmosphere without burning up, creating a second long flash of light that lit up the nigh...

OK... 25 times 300 divided by Pi plus 10 divided by....uhhh, what's your address?

I found this to be a humorous and informative discourse on the above topic. Check out the price differential ($ per oz. of alcohol), it varies from $2 to $11.

$11!

http://ussmariner.blogspot.com/features ... inking.htm

I can personally attest that I had dinner with both of these gentlemen earlier in the evening and all they were drinking then was lemonade (i2icks0r - strawberry / 3nd3r - regular). Guess they were saving up for later.

....am I a monkey? Or a non-monkey? I certainly wouldn't want to be associated with the Sigma team, but I also don't engage in much tomfoolery either. I must be suffering from a lack of self-awareness....does a parent of a monkey gain honorary monkey status through birth-rights, or is there an initi...

Thanks a lot Matt. This totally caused me to waste a good hour at work, when I could've been doing something productive. Astonishing how gullible people can be. I can just imagine Randy's friends disbelieving why she would be pursuing their dumb lugnut of a buddy. "Yeah right Randy, that REALLY is J...

Let me be the first to chime in with a few picks: Best Picture Lost in Translation In a somewhat shocking scenario I have actually seen all of the nominations. Even more implausibly, I liked them all. But without a doubt my favorite of the five was this relentlessly engaging study of two mismatched ...

Hey Goemon Not to state the obvious but when you find yourself in hot pursuit of that kidnapper, you probably won't be utilising the cruise control feature at that exact moment. No luck so far in my searches as to when this coupe will be offered for sale, or what it will be called in the US, or even...

It will be called the Nuvolari Quattro. 600bhp Biturbo V-10. 20" rims. I like the rear view but the front...I'm not sure. Looks a little too brutish with that massive grill set-up. It will have adaptive cruise control that automatically senses how close you are to the car in front of you and adjusts...