I Have Never Even Had a Ticket
January 31, 2002
[From today’s CNN: “Analysts say the economy's recovery will depend partly on whether consumers keep spending despite rising unemployment.” Great. We are relying on people making foolish and possibly irresponsible decisions to save the economy. How is this not a recipe for disaster? My hope is strangely unbuoyed after reading this news.] All my life I have wanted to be...
[From today’s CNN: “Analysts say the economy's recovery will depend partly on whether consumers keep spending despite rising unemployment.” Great. We are relying on people making foolish and possibly irresponsible decisions to save the economy. How is this not a recipe for disaster? My hope is strangely unbuoyed after reading this news.] All my life I have wanted to be...
Ronnie
January 29, 2002
Ronnie O’Sullivan is my god. I was watching a little TV one Saturday afternoon not too long ago, and snooker was on. If you had asked me before, I would have suggested that snooker was only slightly more interesting than reading through the US Tax Code. But then I found myself helplessly drawn into the game. They were playing for...
Ronnie O’Sullivan is my god. I was watching a little TV one Saturday afternoon not too long ago, and snooker was on. If you had asked me before, I would have suggested that snooker was only slightly more interesting than reading through the US Tax Code. But then I found myself helplessly drawn into the game. They were playing for...
Midnight comforts
January 28, 2002
We have so many heated toys in our lives. Heated towel racks. Heated car seats. Electric blankets. Battery powered socks (you just think I am kidding). Most of them I have no use for. Heated towel racks especially. For heaven's sake. The towels are there with you in the bathroom in which you are taking a hot shower and filling...
We have so many heated toys in our lives. Heated towel racks. Heated car seats. Electric blankets. Battery powered socks (you just think I am kidding). Most of them I have no use for. Heated towel racks especially. For heaven's sake. The towels are there with you in the bathroom in which you are taking a hot shower and filling...
I Will Be As a God
January 25, 2002
I was working on a Web site for BP over here, and one of their home page images is this adorable picture of a palm-sized owl. Suddenly it occurred to me that no one I knew had an owl as a pet. I should have an owl! What would be neater to have than a pocket owl sitting on...
I was working on a Web site for BP over here, and one of their home page images is this adorable picture of a palm-sized owl. Suddenly it occurred to me that no one I knew had an owl as a pet. I should have an owl! What would be neater to have than a pocket owl sitting on...
I Am Only Good in Extremes
January 24, 2002
I had a terrible moment when I was sat down at my PC last Wednesday and looked down and realized that I was undeniably carrying something in addition to my regular 175 pounds. Not that I deeply care. I cannot claim a strong health-consciousness or anything, since I am the guy who shovels chocolate into his face three hundred and...
I had a terrible moment when I was sat down at my PC last Wednesday and looked down and realized that I was undeniably carrying something in addition to my regular 175 pounds. Not that I deeply care. I cannot claim a strong health-consciousness or anything, since I am the guy who shovels chocolate into his face three hundred and...
Labiaplasty
January 23, 2002
Oh. My. God. What do you get the girl who has everything? Apparently, a trip to the Laser Vagina Rejuvenation Institute. This exists in LA (it would have to be LA, wouldn't it?). They are the vagina experts, the vagina specialists, the denizens of ‘down there’. They can tighten your vagina a little or a lot. They can give you...
Oh. My. God. What do you get the girl who has everything? Apparently, a trip to the Laser Vagina Rejuvenation Institute. This exists in LA (it would have to be LA, wouldn't it?). They are the vagina experts, the vagina specialists, the denizens of ‘down there’. They can tighten your vagina a little or a lot. They can give you...
Holding My Liquor
January 22, 2002
[I am so confused after all these months of living between UK keyboard machines at work and my US laptop, I no longer can even remember where the quote key is supposed to be and where the proper place for the @ sign is. My fingers just automatically try both combinations. This whole complicated shift-pinky-delete-shift-2 routine happens without me even...
[I am so confused after all these months of living between UK keyboard machines at work and my US laptop, I no longer can even remember where the quote key is supposed to be and where the proper place for the @ sign is. My fingers just automatically try both combinations. This whole complicated shift-pinky-delete-shift-2 routine happens without me even...
All About Pretty Visuals
January 21, 2002
Remember a few months ago when I was describing how I think in words instead of pictures? For my birthday this year, the über-wonderful M~ got me a Joycam, and a tiny little composition book. I came back to London to document some of the exorbitant drivel that runs through my head, even in the most exotic of locations. I...
Remember a few months ago when I was describing how I think in words instead of pictures? For my birthday this year, the über-wonderful M~ got me a Joycam, and a tiny little composition book. I came back to London to document some of the exorbitant drivel that runs through my head, even in the most exotic of locations. I...
Dressing for Laughs
January 19, 2002
Ye gods. What a week at work. Ah well. It is nice to be busy. The other interesting thing about the comedy show was noticing how the comedian people dressed. The first girl gets up, is cute but not showing it particularly well, and her act stinks. Just in the sense of not being funny. I am sure she is...
Ye gods. What a week at work. Ah well. It is nice to be busy. The other interesting thing about the comedy show was noticing how the comedian people dressed. The first girl gets up, is cute but not showing it particularly well, and her act stinks. Just in the sense of not being funny. I am sure she is...
Comedy and Cancer
January 16, 2002
It is midnight, and I just took a shower. A local pub was having a comedy night and droves of Saltminers showed up to cheer on beloved ex-Miner, A~. It was fun. It was the cheapest night's entertainment ever -- two pounds for five hours' laughter. And the line-up was a sort of rising-amateurs night, which turned out to mean...
It is midnight, and I just took a shower. A local pub was having a comedy night and droves of Saltminers showed up to cheer on beloved ex-Miner, A~. It was fun. It was the cheapest night's entertainment ever -- two pounds for five hours' laughter. And the line-up was a sort of rising-amateurs night, which turned out to mean...
Money Habits
January 15, 2002
Check out this article in yesterday's CSM. It is automatically fun because it is about the big three. Some of the conclusions are no surprise at all. I know that I am on a weird fringe of money-habits. I know that I will eat disgusting things that the rest of the world would throw away. Sure, I am on board...
Check out this article in yesterday's CSM. It is automatically fun because it is about the big three. Some of the conclusions are no surprise at all. I know that I am on a weird fringe of money-habits. I know that I will eat disgusting things that the rest of the world would throw away. Sure, I am on board...
Rome: Full of Old Stuff
January 14, 2002
I will try not to harp on Rome after today. It was just... wow. So amazing. I will archive off these pictures here today, and then shut up about Rome and the tragedy that I am not living in Italy. Our fist monument! The Church of St. Maria Maggiore turned out to be the touchstone of most of our...
I will try not to harp on Rome after today. It was just... wow. So amazing. I will archive off these pictures here today, and then shut up about Rome and the tragedy that I am not living in Italy. Our fist monument! The Church of St. Maria Maggiore turned out to be the touchstone of most of our...
Ruin Cats, Really
January 13, 2002
[I am moving back to a more predictable life today. Alas. I put my father into the tube today and by now his plane is probably with spitting distance of St. Louis. Poor Dad. At least my TWA experiences are over. He had to put in another whole twenty hours of dealing with them. It is amazing what disarray the...
[I am moving back to a more predictable life today. Alas. I put my father into the tube today and by now his plane is probably with spitting distance of St. Louis. Poor Dad. At least my TWA experiences are over. He had to put in another whole twenty hours of dealing with them. It is amazing what disarray the...
Ruin Cats
January 10, 2002
Once again, the problem with carrying multiple media cameras is that the exact picture that you want is always on exactly the wrong camera. I am looking through the couple dozen Rome pictures I took on the digital camera, and while I know that I took a picture of the ruin cats, I apparently did not think to duplicate it...
Once again, the problem with carrying multiple media cameras is that the exact picture that you want is always on exactly the wrong camera. I am looking through the couple dozen Rome pictures I took on the digital camera, and while I know that I took a picture of the ruin cats, I apparently did not think to duplicate it...
Placeholder Email
January 06, 2002
From: "ScottMcJ" To: The McJannet Family Subject: Update on the London McJannets Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:43:06 -0000 _______________________________ Among the standard suite of stories that my dad/your Bill will tell about his young married life (the Frosted Flakes story, the Fire Extinguisher story, etc) is included one where he relates about their first morning back home from their...
From: "ScottMcJ" To: The McJannet Family Subject: Update on the London McJannets Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:43:06 -0000 _______________________________ Among the standard suite of stories that my dad/your Bill will tell about his young married life (the Frosted Flakes story, the Fire Extinguisher story, etc) is included one where he relates about their first morning back home from their...
And Finally, Next Week
January 04, 2002
[The original preface here was about how I am in Rome typing this, and how I am transcribing it from my palm, using an Italian keyboard, which, with all its special characters is the hardest keyboard I have ever had to deal with in Europe. But after the power has gone of twice (oops. make that three times) here in...
[The original preface here was about how I am in Rome typing this, and how I am transcribing it from my palm, using an Italian keyboard, which, with all its special characters is the hardest keyboard I have ever had to deal with in Europe. But after the power has gone of twice (oops. make that three times) here in...
Later the Same Day
January 03, 2002
[When I got out of the shower this morning, I heard bacon sizzling in the kitchen. My Dad had got up right after me, and made bacon, eggs, toast and OJ for us this morning. It was the best thing ever. Suddenly I have a real hankering to get married. Not to my Dad, obviously, but maybe to a nice...
[When I got out of the shower this morning, I heard bacon sizzling in the kitchen. My Dad had got up right after me, and made bacon, eggs, toast and OJ for us this morning. It was the best thing ever. Suddenly I have a real hankering to get married. Not to my Dad, obviously, but maybe to a nice...
The Next Day
January 02, 2002
Let me preface my list of things that suck with some things that are sweet and wonderful: Bunnies Flowers, especially carnafodils and carnations Now, a short list of things that suck: American Airlines TWA, now owned and operated by American Airlines After no postings this last week or so, I seem set to kick off the new year by complaining...
Let me preface my list of things that suck with some things that are sweet and wonderful: Bunnies Flowers, especially carnafodils and carnations Now, a short list of things that suck: American Airlines TWA, now owned and operated by American Airlines After no postings this last week or so, I seem set to kick off the new year by complaining...