(This is in the style of a Twitter stream-of-consciousness story.)

supercres Just had most unimaginably frustrating 2-hour trip home from work. It usually takes 15 minutes X minutes ago from web

supercres What follows is an account if I had Tweeted at every turn. Why I didn’t will soon be obvious. It’s in reverse order for easy reading. X minutes ago from web

supercres Argh. Got to my front door to discover that I left my house keys on my desk at work. Don’t want to bike to the office back in traffic. X minutes ago from web

supercres Hm. Daniel (the roomie) is staying on campus and going straight downtown so can’t easily let me in. X minutes ago from web

supercres No worries. Will call Kristin and pick my spare set up from her when she gets home in a few mins X minutes ago from web

supercres Even better– she’s still at the office now and can just get my keys off my desk. Running to grocery store to kill time X minutes ago from web

supercres Ok. Groceries accomplished. Heading to K’s to pick up keys X minutes ago from web

supercres Crap. Phone is dead. She can’t call me to tell me she’s home. Will just ring bell. Fingers crossed X minutes ago from web

supercres No answer to bell. She might have already headed home to NJ, or she could be in the shower. Arrrrrghhhhhhhh. X minutes ago from web

supercres Ok. Running to fake Apple store (auth retailer) to buy a new power cord. Need one anyway. Hope they’ll let me charge for a bit X minutes ago from web

supercres Arrrghh… phone does not want to charge. Buying cord PLUS brick and going to coffee shop near K’s house X minutes ago from web

supercres TAKING FOREVER to get enough charge to make a damn call. X minutes ago from web

supercres Shit. Voicemails from Kristin asking where I am… and she left for NJ (rightly so) and put my keys on her counter. Can’t get to them. X minutes ago from web

supercres Not only that, but she saw my bike locked to her railing and checked the coffee shop WHERE I NOW AM looking for me X minutes ago from web

supercres So K’s gone. Trying her roommate to let me in, in which case I’ll feel bad for making Elena climb those 4 flights of stairs X minutes ago from web

supercres Couldn’t get Elena. Trying Eve, because Eve has a set of keys for Kristin’s apartment X minutes ago from web

supercres No Eve. Calling Daniel, who should be somewhere in the area. Hopefully close to here or close to home X minutes ago from web

supercres Ok. Got Daniel. Meeting him close to here and getting his housekey. Will have to get my keys later. X minutes ago from web

supercres Got Daniel’s key. Biking home. X minutes ago from web

supercres Finally home. Tweeting about adventure and listening to Radiohead. That will fix all woes. X minutes ago from web

supercres Got Eve on the phone. Meeting her to get into Kristin’s apartment. X minutes ago from web

supercres I have much better friends than I deserve. X minutes ago from web

Best headline ever.

Grr… slow at posting recently, I guess. I tend to Twitter funny things I find these days, or just IM them to a few people. I’ll try to get back in the habit.

Also… I turned 24 yesterday. It was a low-key birthday, punctuated by an Eagles playoff loss. Also, it’s snowy and too cold. Makes for bad going-out weather. But it was still fun.

On the plus side, I was giggling like crazy at the Flight of the Conchords premiere last night, and also enjoyed Big Love. (Unless something big happens with the latter, it’s kind of losing its luster in its early third season.)

Right. Action items: post more. And… that’s about it. Enjoy the inauguration and subsequent regime change, kids.

It’s still a felony!

Plus, he kinda looks like Ned Flanders with that cross. I was watching reruns of Big Love this week, wherein a character makes the old comparison to wearing an electric chair around one’s neck.

Right. So I kinda forgot about this place, I guess. Or maybe it hasn’t been that long. Who can tell.

Between actual human contact (I know!) and my Twitter (follow me!), I guess I’ve had ample outlet for my standard musing and content-sharing. Plus, I’ve been on the road (24th - 29th in Northern VA) without a laptop, which hinders aimless internetting.

But since you’re reading this, I do hope you had a happy/merry whatever (yes, I’m a heathen). I for one realized that four days is just about my limit with the extended family. Nothing against them, of course; just too many people for introverted ol’ me to handle for an extended length of time. Also, I got a stye my last few days there. Other than that, a good time. The parents gave me an external flash which I supplemented with a StoFen; hopefully that’ll improve my photo output.

(Side note: my dad got my mom a ridiculously complicated coffee/espresso maker… one endorsed by Roger Federer. Weird. Maybe he, like the coffee maker, is a robot too.

Now that I’m back, I ordered a bit of a late holiday/early birthday present for myself. Truthfully, I’d been looking for an excuse, and getting Wall-E on Blu-Ray proved enough. Yeah, I got a PS3.

The actual unit is smaller than what I remember from my college roommate’s; it fits nicely next to my receiver. Wall-E sounded great (despite my only running two speakers) and looked incredible at full 1080p. Rock Band is coming tomorrow. My only concern (don’t laugh) is that I’ll get caught up in some game and won’t have time for my standard complement of infotainment — Countdown, Rachel, Daily Show, and the like — and that I’ll lose track of the wider world. But I guess there are worse concerns to have.

Hope the holiday season treated you well. Here’s wishing you a pleasant new year.

Hey, look at that; something else I own shows up in the set-dressing in a Law & Order episode:

Yep, I have the same track bike as a fake killer and drug-trafficker. Woohoo!

(Side-by-side comparison here.)

Holy “J”-names, Batman!

[Insert "clown car" joke here.]

Update:
Oh, it rhymes with “Ginger”, not “zinger”. I’m not sure whether that makes it better or worse.

It might be a bit premature, but… Senator Stuart Smalley?

Things are looking up.

This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while (salty language alert), at least since Stuff Nobody Likes (previously).

Maybe I just like blogs hurling verbal abuse at abstract concepts or non-sentient things.

Shoe-dodging: I think we’ve found Bush’s lone skill, other than running three countries into the ground simultaneously.

(Though the latter really is no small feat.)