Category: General

Stewie set up a birthday party/hang around thing for Taylor at a strip club called Number Five Orange last Friday. Marlo had never been to a strip club before. I had been to a few. One of them I even went to without having to go on stage. As the kind of guy who likes women with short hair, no makeup, and natural boobs, strip clubs aren’t usually my bag of tea. Also going to strip clubs are an exercise in people-watching, as there were quite a few interesting characters there, including Santa Clause.

There was one stripper – Penny Lane – who managed to keep my attention. She had nice hair (for a long-hair) and was naturally pretty. She didn’t give Taylor a lap dance though because some schmuck just prior to the appointment did something not so nice and she went home for the night. That’s my understanding, anyway. The best part was four of my co-workers showing up and one of them getting drunk and telling me how sexy Marlo is and how lucky I am (I know, and I know). Marlo asked if I would go see strippers again and I said ‘sure,’ but I would like to try a different place next time.

Great Old Ones is finally in the Chaosium catalog.

I think the deal with Pink Floyd and Wizard of Oz has gotten to the point that it would probably be a good marketing deal if they packaged them together at Virgin Megastore.

I am truly amazed at how bad my feet smell after a day at work. It’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced before.

My lunch at work usually consists of: a banana (which I eat at first break); two hard boiled eggs; an apple; raisins; sunflower seeds; sometimes a bag of chips or a candy bar from the machines in the lunch room. During the holidays add 2 mandarin oranges. Last Wednesday I opened my bag to find that there were no eggs. I had a memory of boiling the eggs that morning, but since they weren’t in my bag, I wondered if I had left them at home. Worse yet, I wondered if I left them in the pot, boiling. At first break (I technically start work at 8:30 and first break is 10:30) I decided I had to wake up Stewie to check to see if the kitchen was on fire. I called him and just asked him to check the kitchen. When I got home, he told me there were no eggs at all – not in a pot nor on the counter. So that was fine. Clearly I had a false memory.

Today, as I was leaving work, I saw a Sunshine Market bag on the filing cabinet that is in the locker room at work. It’s where I put my bag when I pull out my music tapes ‘n’ stuff. Inside were my two eggs. They smelled a bit (being 6 days at room temperature) but I so desperately wanted to eat them. Wasted food is one of my pet peeves. Or, if not a peeve, I just think it’s tragic, because food is so yummy. Anyway Taylor talked me out of it, so when we got outside I hucked one onto the road for kicks. That was satisfying, but not as satisfying as rolling the other out onto Marine Drive and waiting for a car to run over it. Ho ho! It was just about a foot out of the rut that the tires go, but eventually a bus nicked it. Then a sports car changing lanes and oh the mess it made! Fun for the whole family.

January is already more than half over. I don’t feel like I’ve wasted it, but I do feel like I want to try some new, different things very soon. Any ideas?

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