This morning I was in a rush to leave and I forgot to do two things:

Take out a bag of trash I’ve been meaning to take out since Sunday.
Close the dog gate.

Normally if I forget to close the gate, my dog enjoys her freedom to roam the house but doesn’t take advantage of it and is a good dog.
Not today!

Note the destroyed styrofoam container under the coffee table.   It contained week-old Chinese food, a lot of it, which had then been wrapped up and was buried in the trash bag …

About 6 weeks ago I was in a hurry and pulled by car up to a parking spot along Walnut at 5:45pm, 15 minutes before meter enforcement ends. I had exactly one coin on me, a quarter. I popped it into the slot, and….. the blasted thing ate my quarter!
“Oh well, what are the odds someone will come by in the next 15 minutes?”, I stupidly thought, and I went inside.
Sure enough, I returned to find a ticket. Oh well.
Fast forward a couple …

Remember this person from Monday?
The same person is back! Here’s today’s wonderful parking job. And this time, by popular demand, I’m not blurring the plate:

Notice that it was not due to other vehicles parking this way that this was necessary, this person is just really that rude or bad of a parker. In addition, they have once again parked in the Compact Only section, there were several SUV spaces open in the row behind me when I took this picture. And I …

Check out KenThinks.com for a roundup of Ken’s top 10 favorite Schoolhouse Rock episodes.   It’s a good list with well though out picks.   I have a couple of disagreements: Mother Necessity and Suffering Until Sufferage woud be on my list, and  Elbow Room deserves a node simply for this lyric:
The President was Thomas Jefferson / He made a deal with Napoleon, / “How’d you like to sell a mile or two?/ (Or three or a hundred or a thousand?)
Check out his list, it has the full story behind each one …

Talk about not even trying.     (Incidentally these spaces are also signed as “Compact Only”. )   

Probably the only thing keeping this guy from getting keyed is the fact that the garage didn’t fill up today.  Usually it does.

UPDATED JUNE 20, 2009
This post is intended for employers to find if they do a Google search on job applicants to find out more about them.
Meet Curtis Mertensmeyer. Curtis Mertensmeyer is a rich, pampered, spoiled brat from Mission Hills, KS who was driving drunk (at the not-even-yet-legal age of 20) and speeding at about 3am on May 11, 2008. He struck a pedestrian, 25-year-old Daniel L. Riemann, with so much force that is severed the victim’s legs. Curtis Mertensmeyer fled the scene, leaving the victim to die in …

Yeah, you know who you are. The one who, along with your passenger, glared at me because I dared to proceed straight ahead from my lane, the right-hand lane of southbound Wyandotte at 6th.
You pushed me off onto the shoulder, yet I got the look?
I know you were likely too busy keeping a lookout for scary brown people to notice that the dotted lines between the lanes shifted to the left. You may have also been too preoccupied with looking for a $20 parking space, so you …

After too long of a sabbatical from taking really long walks (almost 7 months!), I started out small this past Thursday morning by taking a walk to my doctor appointment.
It’s amazing how quickly one’s body can get out of shape when a routine is broken. I’ve walked this route from Downtown to St. Luke’s (about 33 blocks as the crow flies) many times and it usually takes about an hour. This time it took me an hour and 20 minutes.
It didn’t start out slow. …