The Ottawa Rabbit Hole

Since my last blog posting. Is this an incredible return to form of daily posting? Probably not. For whatever reason the mood took me today. Seeing as how I haven't posted in over a year I'm guessing nobody actually reads this anymore, but for anybody who has this pop up in their RSS feed...enjoy!! Here are some interesting topics that popped up lately:

1) David Suzuki is an asshole. He told me to get low power fluorescent light bulbs, so I did. Here's the problem, they attract bugs from outside like most lights but because they are low wattage they do not have the power to kill these bugs. I then get a dozen or so bugs camping out on my wall. Disgusting. Somehow these things are smart enough to navigate passed my screen door. I solve this problem by closing my patio door and cranking my AC, thereby using a lot more electricity than my old light bulbs ever did. I guess Suzuki is such a dirty hippie he's used to living with bugs so it's not a big issue for him.

2) Last night I realized I am the oldest person on my 3-pitch co-ed softball team. I want to thank Skip for making room on his roster for a crafty old veteran like me instead of filling it up with big swinging young punks. I'll do my best to live up to the nickname 'Oil Can'.

3) After struggling through Catch-22 for 3 months, I forgot what it is like to read a good book. I picked up Generation Kill by Evan Wright from the library to prepare for the David Simon miniseries coming in July and it is a captivating read. The author tagged along with an elite Marine unit during the first days of the Iraq war. I predict less than a week to bang through this bad boy. Highly recommended! Actually Catch-22 was really good too...just tough to get through due to it not having a linear story telling method.

4) I am on the hunt for a new pillow. Up to this point the big winner has been a $5 Zellers pillow, and forays into cheap down pillows have been unsuccessful. I need to see what is out there. Costco offers both down and memory foam pillows for the low low price of $25. I will buy both and return whichever one provides the least sleep.

5) In order to prepare to see Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary/concert 'Shine a Light' tonight I have purchased his Bob Dylan documentary/concert DVD 'No Direction Home'. After about 10 minutes it is all good.

6) A-Train, if you ever read this, I promise I will blog an in depth character study of Clarence Boddicker by the end of the summer.

Boy this has really tired me out. See you in a year!

Posted by WRMB :: 4:35 PM :: 2 comments