Guys!!

I love you all. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year dudes.

Reading With The Insects

Written and illustrated by Me N D B



Chapter 1: D B
Chapter 2: D B N D P




Chapter 3: D B N D T



D N

Seriously?

I'm sure you all remember Maurice who made us laugh with his tophat and cheesy grin. And who could forget when he followed me from 512 to my apt on E. Columbia and stole my chocolate and kept me up at night...Then this summer one of his relatives bit me in my sleep. Well, if those weren't enough rodent adventures for one lifetime, I now have squirrels nesting between the walls one room over. They make a lot of noise and smell bad. If they start biting me, I'm gonna need some serious help; and at this rate, in a few years I'll have opossums swinging from my lights.

vegas

did anyone book a flight to vegas yet? Prices have come down a little from west lafayette.

Go Elf Yourselves ...

ElfYourself™ : Group
ElfYourself™ : Group 2

Sorry guys

Hiya folks,

Sorry I've been m.i.a. on most of these posts. You would think as bored as I am at work I would be the one on here more than anyone. Anyway, regarding some of the recent posts...

I will not be back in time for new years. I will be leaving for Europe on the 19th of December and getting back January 3rd. So I was wondering a couple thingy things. When is the cocktail party supposed to be this year? I would really really like to make it, and if it was before the 19th that would definitely be a possibility.

Eric - that totally blows about your surgery, but I've added a few movies to the list that I think you might enjoy watching. Vacancy is pretty dark, but I know your feelings on Kate Beckinsale, so I thought I'd recommend that too.

Anyway - I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Mine basically rocked a super duper lot.

... even though South Bend sucks.

Miss you guys,
-Joey

Today

its 11 degrees. this morning it was 5 but felt like -14. anyone wanna come visit?

A Little Survey

Ok, without going and looking up the answer can you guys answer these two questions for me? We discussed it in my class today and I was curious what you guys think.

What percentage of the U.S. federal budget is spent on foreign aid?

Based on whatever you think this percentage is, do you think this is appropriate and if not, how much do you think we should be spending on this?

I know this is random...but I would like to see how smart educated people (you guys) answer this question.

7 days of Movies...

after surgery i am goin to have to spend at least 7 entire days in bed with my leg in some machine... while this indeed sucks, it provides a great opportunity to melt my brain with tv. i need a list of movies/television shows to watch... joe, this is your time to shine...hit me!

New Year's

Hey gang. Considering Eric's soon to be sedentary lifestyle, why don't you all come to my place for new year's eve. We can make a big dinner or go out nearby, then hang out all night. It's just a few crutch lengths from Eric's place and there's plenty of room for everyone to sleep without fear of getting whacked. Thoughts?

P.S.- Joe, will you be back in the country by new years?

Bookmarks Forever...

It's nice to know there are cool bookmarking professionals so close to home... http://www.charactercounts.org/ccblog/2001/10/fort_dodge_ia_worlds_largest_b.html I want you all to be the first to know that my greatest feat is yet to come... I'll soon be hitting the road with my immense and glorious bookmark collection in the hopes of not only encouraging the youth to be excited about bookmarks AND books, but also to find others who are so passionate about the greatest collector's item of all times. peace and bookmarks to all!

Vegas Logistics

I'm lookin'
to be bookin'
a flight to outrageous,
sunny, so-money,
Sin City, Las Vegas...

and I need to know when, so.....

Are you all arriving thursday night, friday night, what's the plan stans?

Pictures from Minnesota

http://flickr.com/photos/kevin_schwartzenberg/sets/72157603218168118/

Harry Potter Houses

Sort yourselves.

http://www.personalitylab.org/tests/ccq_hogwarts.htm

Is anyone else

having Office withdrawal?
Good weekend guys.

New Years?

What are we doing kids? Any ideas?

If you're visiting MN this weekend you should bring

*your sweaters. its getting chilly here, although this weekend is supposed to be a little warmer (highs around 50).

*an air mattress - if anyone has one since my entire apartment is made out of concrete. We can totally have a slarty in my bed and/or futon, but just in case, air>concrete when it comes to sleeping surfaces.

*your Fun Hats

can't wait to see everyone! :)

RIDICULOUS!!

the one and only marge "whitewater! whitewater!" sietsema just informed me that almond joys are better than whoppers. granted, whoppers aren't amazingly delicious, but i would never ever put them above a nasty coconut treat. any thoughts?

sidenote to show marges craziness: she was just singing a song in a high pitched girly voice, "three little maids from school singing with girly glee!!!!"

Turducken?

What do you guys think about this meal which includes a chicken stuffed inside a duck, stuffed inside a turkey? A really cool and delicious idea or just another way to lord our superiority over the inferior species. Discuss.

I can't believe

I missed this weekend. I feel like a donor kebab.
Nationals was cool. We got 13th. Yay!

Marge...HELP!!!

what is veramyst?? check out this website...

http://www.veramyst.com/about_veramyst/how_veramyst_works.html

notice anything strange on that page??

hint: "the way veramyst works is not fully understood"


marge, how do they get away with selling a drug that they dont understand?

Clever terrorists...

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/conceptual_terrorists_encase_sears

Trouble in Vegas, bitches!

Jan 27-28. You are all going. Mo and I are trying to organize a ladies team and I think eric or some old dude is forming a men's team....If all else fails we'll just make a co-ed team. Either way, ultimate is the least important part of that weekend. All right, so ready, set, enthusiastic response!

I figured I would post this...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zuSyAwSbdlA

Spring Break at Flynn's?

What do you think? Spring break in Cali? Any other ideas? I scratched the far away destination idea when I realized how poor we all are.

Maybe we could just go to a cabin in Minnesota and stare at the trees while we poo.

Too much WoW?

Watchout everyone, it's a serious addiction.


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i08b5of64eH5r-S-p_rkveKn2KEA

Hey

I miss you guys like Augustus Gloop misses Charlie's Factory

What A Bad Day....

So Saturday of CHC turned out to be a pretty horrible day for one Mr. Eric Leonard.

Before the first game even starts, I get stung by a bee on the tip of my right middle finger, ouch! As the day progresses, my already chubby finger swells to an amazingly plump state. I think it might be infected, and im not sure i got the stinger out yet (2 days later...)

Purdue played okay for Saturday considering they are a very young team, but people were getting very tired by our 5th game of the day. So to spare some rookies all the running, I went in for a point during our last game of the day. I made some pretty sweet jukes out there, kids, let me tell you. So sweet, in fact, I faked my ACL right out of my knee! I turned to make an in-cut, then heard an explosion, then was on the ground writhing in pain. I talked to the trainer and my doctor brother (the one darcy is in love with), both said my acl is probably definately torn and i will most likely need surgery (YAY!). I have an appointment to get an MRI referral today at PUSH (i hope im not pregnant, too) then I need to get the MRI then have surgery. Oh well...

in other news, grad school is hard. but i have alot of time to do homework so i am all up on that shit. me and marge are partyin like animal house, i havent been sober since class started.

ps, darcy if you read this, i want to see your pictures from colorado!


yours truly,
the hobbly sloth

Bones, this one's for you....

Last Wednesday I biked to my class in St. Paul. It took me 30min and was really uphill. I got to class around 8:00 really really sweaty. So sweaty in fact that my book bag had a giant sweat stain on the back. Yes, I had pitted/backed out my book bag through a t shirt and hoodie.

(as an aside) I took my sweaty body to class. The professor walked in and said "Allllright, welcome to Animal Breeding!"

Yea, good day.

Bird Dropping Safety: No Laughing matter

So I guess I should have paid more attention in my bird shit training course...

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=64474

Hey guys! We can still be winner's of presidential fitness awards. They have programs for adults!!

http://www.fitness.gov/challenge/programbooklet2006-07.pdf

If you scroll down to page 7 you'll see that we can be presidential champions!

Lost and Found

So, I'm pretty sure I lost my iPod shuffle when we were camping. If anyone has seen it since we were about to go hiking towards the waterfalls - let me know. On the found side, I have a key on my keyring that I've never before seen in my life. The only explanation I came up with is that maybe someone put it on there so that it could rest with my keys while we frolicked in the Northern part of Minnesota. Let me know.

Tell me about your lives

Hey kids, it's been a long time since we had any new posts. What's goin on? Kata, Eric, how's grad school. How's the new job Joe? Madge, Kali, what's new with you guys?

Yikes

So, Saturday mornign I learned that there was a storm in Chicago and power was still out in some places. Saturday afternoon I learned that the expressway 80/94 was shut down because it was still flooded. Saturday evening I saw some of the damage in Elmhurst - 200 year old trees completely ripped out of the ground. Today I looked at the pictures and I can't believe I didn't hear about this at all before I went home. Check it out at:

www.chicagotribune.com/stormphotos

In the perfect suburbs we don't get storms like this.

A Day in Minneapolis

So today I ventured out of my apartment onto campus today via bike. Let me tell you, everyone here bikes, how hard can it be? Right?

My bike to campus was wonderful, cool, easy and the lanes were marked. It took about 10 minutes. My bike home was entirely different. First of all it was raining steadily. Second of all, I went home on a different road - a four lane busy road full of potholes and lacking in bike lane lines (although I know there is a bike lane - the Minneapolis bike map said so....). Anyway my bike ride home goes something like this: I'm soooooaking wet from the rain (my gortex doesnt so much repel water as soak it up) and the dirty water splashes I get every few minutes from cars speeding by and freaked out cause they are speeding really close to me. I keep getting caught in turning lanes and slowing down traffic trying to get out of them. Plus I'm trying to use hand signals here cause everyone else does, but do you know how hard hand signals are when its rainy and cars are driving super close to you and its hard to look behind you cause your wet hood is covering half your face? I see some bikers on the other side of the road so I think the bike lane is over there. I decide to cross, but apparently I'm slower on my old purple Schwinn then I had anticipated cause traffic stops and honks as I cross four lanes of traffic. I get home soaked and bike-shamed.

A few hour later, after it stops raining, I went out for a run. I just kind of ran and explored some different streets/neighborhoods and then loop around to go back to my apartment. I get kind of lost in a really shady looking neighborhood and come across a homeless looking guy who resembles Jesus bent over looking into some bushes. When he sees me coming his way he stands up and stares and waves at me as I pass by. Not creepy except for the fact that his hand and upper forearm was a hook contraption (quite like Busters in Arrested Development).

Good day guys, good day.

Minnesota Pictures are posted!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8820433@N04/

so stop bugging me marge .... sheesh.

In case anyone was wondering what it looked like...

Late CO Recap

hey everybody!!!

i hope your drive home was smooth sailing. it was weird to have all the kids back at camp after watching your friends scared out of their wits while doing activities. kata, kelsey, joe, and kevin: we missed ya. marge, kal, eric and bennett: thanks for a sweet weekend!! i hope it was well worth the drive. kata, hope ya had a great time at home and you gotta send me the link to the article you were quoted in; joe, hahahaha sorry about the super sweaty graduation ceremony; kev, hope work's going well; and kels, you should write a book cause all my friends will read it.

as far as the photos go, my camera was left in the cooler full of water by an anonymous (coughcolleencough) counselor so it is out of order. this person also drank the last 6 beers without telling me. btw, marge i never paid ya for em, so the next time we're out, i got the tab; and for gas money as well. the good news is that the memory card still works so when i get a chance, i'll steal the unnamed counselor's camera to upload them.

it feels like a suuuuper long time since you guys left. i got the next day off and we went duckying the canyon. we flipped it twice while trying to keep our open beer cans out of the water, mooned some rafters, had breadcrumbs thrown at us, and yelled "whitewater! whitewater!!" in honor of marge...they loved it.

and finally, the package you all sent was absolutely perfect. i wore the sweetest bonnett on two rafting trips so far. by the way, that was the first thing i grabbed when we flipped. also, imagine a girl in a bonnett mooning you. haha. and your letters/pictures were priceless. kata, i laugh every time i look at it. i still haven't figured out the perfect time to pull out the over-sized undies, but in due time my friends.

i hope you have a great trip in minnesoooooota and thanks again for comin out guys!!! i had a blast:) oh and sorry again marge for cutting off your circulation.

i've been sick in the infirmary for the past two days, but i'm feelin better and tonight, we're goin to a rodeo!!!! ye-hawwww!!

peace out homies!!!!

J&C

As I am sitting here, trying to get a summers worth of diet records completed in record time, a woman comes up to me and asks me if she can interview me for an article she is writing for the Journal and Courier. I say sure, why not. She sits down and says "I just want to know what are some of your pet peeves (at this point I'm thinking oooh boy how perfect, this is going to be fun - and then she finishes...) of dating."

Ugh, fantastic. I'm going to be quoted in one of those articles. The only way I can justify this interview is if I say something disgustingly sarcastic. So, wittingly I say "Uhh...umm....I don't really date a lot but I guess I wouldnt like it if they talked about themselves the whole time." Nice. A real original answer. I hope to god that many other equally unoriginal people will have said the same thing so my name doesnt appear next to that awesomeness.

So, anyway, I just remembered we were going to post out own pet peeve lists (cause we are assholes) ;) Here are some of mine:

the word moist
people who sing Ani DiFranco songs like they've been singing them for years, but they really haven't!!!
ice breakers
small talk
the mall (and anyone who likes to hang out there)
people who think kittens are cuter than babies

Go click yourself.

Missing Colorado to go walk in the graduation ceremony was not one of those decisions that I will remember as brilliant. I mean, obviously I’m glad I did it, and my parents really wanted me to, but Colorado would have been much better. Tom and the infamous Mike Dulaney took me out the night before the ceremony and got be absolutely obliterated to the point where I ended up ralphing in front of the Knickerbocker at roughly 2 in the morning.

This obviously made the following 12 hours all but pleasant. I’m not sure if it was the fact that the temperature was in the freaking 90s at 9 a.m. or the fact that, under this ridiculously hot cap and gown (which was obviously black) I was wearing long sleeves and pants, or the fact that I was insanely hung over and dehydrated, but I was not feeling my best throughout the ceremony. But alas, I survived and my parents took me out to lunch at Scotty’s where I ate one onion ring and a single rib from my full rack of baby backs.

How was Colorado?

the 12th.....

hey kiddies. just wanted to let you know that you're welcome to crash here on the 12th on the way up to Minnesota. I'm going to be in Houston (during the hottest week of the entire year! Score!!) all next week until Friday night and I'll probably have no access to the blog/email so call me if you're coming. I'll just need to know how many cars you're bringing so I can figure out parking.


Kevin Schwartzenberg
Waste Water Treatment Engineer
Olefins Technical Group
Lyondell Morris Operations

also if you're bored you should go to npr.org and read this segment called "my cancer". It's kind of sad but I always appreciate my life more after reading it.

CO here we come!

Kali, the town that our directions are heading to is dotsero, CO. I think Darcy may have said that we are actually going to gypsum, but dotsero is where to get off?

Packing list:

sunglass
sunscreen
hat
athletic sandals
jerseys (something quick drying)
nalgene

Getting Hopes Up

I'm pretty sure I'm a go for this weekend. Kali? how did it go?

Harry Potter and the rise of Nazi Germany

For Slothy, Bones and anyone else who is interested...

Here is an article that covers a lot of the points I mentioned last night. This was written in 2005 but the 6th and 7th books are loaded with even more similarities. The one that really stuck out for me was the talk of the slogan over the gates of Grindewald's (sp?) prison camps for muggles ("For the greater good" Reminds me of concentration camps "Work will set you free") and they imprisoned him in a place called Nurmengard (sounds strangely like Nuremberg where nazi war criminals were tried). Just a little something to chew on.

http://www.thirdreich.net/Harry_Potter.html

Sweatshirt

Did anyone leave a grey swimming sweatshirt with a stick figure diving into stick figure water? The back says backstroke.

Wisconsin pictures are up! Also - disc golf today?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8820433@N04/sets/72157600988223581/

Vaca

So whats the dealio with Minnesota? What are some of your plans and suggestions Pigious? I'm bored at work today - lay em on me! I'll help plan.

HP7!!!!!!!!!!

here's the article about the security, it's crazy i tell you, crazy.

http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2007/jul/16harry.htm

Tough questions about our education system

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_are_our_children

My New Found Career

X-Ray Specs

Check it out

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1873026.ece

Spring Break?? (aka bored at work)

Mine is March 17-21. If its the same as the rest of you (still in school) lets do something! For those of you with jobs, save your vacation days for that week!

:)

Does my face scream "Tell me your life story"?

For the past few days I've been running errands to get things organized for the new place. I've been spending so much money its making me physically ill. I can feel my heart rate rising every time they swipe my credit card and every time I sign a receipt I get that sinking feeling in my stomach. Today, however, was too much. Three people at the various stores I went to today gave me way too much information about their lives.

1) Walgreens: Cashier asks me what the wierd sized batteries are for. I respond "my bike speedometer". He proceeds to tell me about his biking career over the past three years. Apparently he trains for century rides and is saving up for a new full carbon racing bike. Ok, this isn't that weird. The guy finds out you're into something he's passionate about, so he makes some small talk. I can live with that.

2) XSportFitness: I go into this gym to find out how much membership is, and I get the whole tour from one of the sales people. At the last stop I meet the gym owner, Tony. You all know exactly what Tony looks like, because he looks exactly like you would expect a gym owner named Tony to look like. He asks me where I'm working. I say Morris IL. He starts to tell me about how he and his wife used to compete down there. I ask (stupidly) what they competed in. Body building. He pulls out a wallet size photo of him and his wife in matching unitards flexing for the camera, and then starts to tell me that he knows a guy who owns Flex gym in Morris and how he's a pretty good guy. I finally escape with a free one week trial membership and an awkward fist pound from Tony. OK, this was strange, but once again, I asked the question. Tony's all right for a gym owner. Plus if I join the gym and we become good friends he can break peoples legs for me. At least this day can't get any weirder.

3) Fry's Electronics: Totally uneventful shopping experience. I go in, find the adapter I need for my computer, go to the check out. "Total is $15.34, credit or debit?" I say credit as I (stupidly) hand over my Purdue Alumni credit card. "Ohhhh you're a Purdue Alumnus eh? Yeah. My uncle went to Purdue. Great school. Yeah he just retired from Intel. He worked there for many years then one day his boss came to tell him he had gotten a promotion and a hefty pay raise. He was making a lot more than most of his coworkers. He used to live in New Jersey but since he retired he's moved down to Georgia to be close to his youngest son. He's got two kids of his own. Haven't had the chance to meet them yet though. He's doing all right for himself I hear. New job and all." I try to walk away after he hands me my bag, forcing a smile and an unenthusiastic "Yeah, small world", but no. "Wait, gotta sign this receipt" I scrawl out a K and an S and briskly leave the counter. I'm starting to think it's me. Do people normally open up this much to total strangers? Am I just a frigid asshole and this is how the rest of the world operates? What do they put in the water in Lisle IL?

As I sit here typing this post, memories of other awkward encounters float to the surface. Barbers with stacks of photographs telling me about the close friend who is dying of stomach cancer and has given him power of attorney over his assets. The hair stylist at master cuts who shared with me her first experience with LSD and psychic readings. The janitor in the ChE building who always told me about her slutty alcoholic sister and how she got them kicked out of bars every weekend. There seems to be a pattern.

I'm now officially working on my mean face...

Story Time

Who knew that camp was all about embarrassing the counselors any chance they get?...

So it's been an ongoing joke here that I never get mail. When i say never, I actually mean I've received one drawing and one letter from 2 campers in the 2 months I've been here. Anyways, I hinted to my parents I would love for them to send me a carepackage since I don't often have the luxury of going to a store to buy something. Imagine my surprise when the counselor next door came in yelling "Darsupial!!! (new nickname) YOU GOT A HUGE PACKAGE IN THE OFFICE!!" It was the best day of my life. So I go to pick up this enormous package only to find that the largest package was no bigger than a shoebox. Mine, however, was smaller. I took my tiny package that was sent in a large Nutri-Grain box to the cabin to see what was inside. Perhaps a small army of chololate? or some good reading material? at the very least, a kind letter?? NO. Did u already guess what was inside? thats right->47 Nutri-Grain bars!!! utterly disappointed is an understatement, especially since I don't really like them. once everyone heard about my awesome package, the staff was in an uproar of laughter. The real embarrassing part is yet to come... Two nights ago, the nighttime activity was counselor dress-up. Each cabin got to dress up their counselor as any super hero. My cabin this session isn't exactly the most creative group, but I was shocked at thier idea: Nutri-Grain Girl!!! That's right, they cut up the boxes and put them on my head, shoulders, and gave me wings. My super power: shooting poisonous nutri-grain juice at evildoers. Yea, I didn't win. I just walked away in shame. You can check out what i looked like online in the 2nd session photos...

so i heard sandblast was one for the books?! getting kicked out of a bar for your amazing dancing madge?? they obviously don't know what good dancing is made of...hahahahahaha...so wish i was there to see it.
and just to refresh your memories, i have from aug 1-6th completely off. you can stay at the camp for free and probably eat for free as well...basically there will be no one there but us = awesome!!!

so i need a yay or nay asap, cause if it's a no, i'll have to tell everyone what a loser i am that no one writes OR visits and try to find something to do for 6 days. hahahaha jk

i reeeeallly hope you can all make it!!! at least for a day or two:) oh and as a bonus, you can bring/drink all the booze you like! does it sound as fun to you as it does to me??

miss you all like crazy,
darc

HP5

for those who thought that it wasn't that good...and coming back to reality I realize it wasn't...here's a pretty funny story about it.

http://www.hecklerspray.com/harry-potter-film-makes-12-mil-in-like-a-minute-or-something/20069162.php

What does my dream mean?

I took a long nap today and had a really weird dream. I was already in my new apartment, and I was sitting at my computer screen when I get an IM from my ex-girlfriend. Here's how the conversation went:

JulMHolf: Bet all this news is making you homesick :)
Schwartz12499: What are you talking about?
JulMHolf: Well you know, all the murders, the petrified man...
Schwartz12499: Wait, what?
JulMHolf: What, haven't you heard?
Schwartz12499: no, what's going on there
JulMHolf: Three little kids were murdered in the streets, and they found a petrified man (links to a MSNBC article about a petrified man that was found in the ravine behind the library of our town).
Schwartz12499: When did all this happen, I just moved in yesterday?


Then the phone rang and I woke up. I've been thinking about it for hours and I can't figure out where any of it came from. I woke up late today, packed some boxes, and watched a movie on the Disney channel about a 13 year old boy who starts going through puberty, only it's not normal puberty, it's puberty that turns him into a merman, and then I fell asleep. What does it all mean?

this weekend

anyone want to go and camp at the dunes on saturday night? we can drive up sat morning-ish and hang out on the beach, then set up camp and drink a bit. sound good?

Rat Lovin

as a little insight to my day - this is what a rat looks like when its in love with your cotton swab. all in the name of science kids, all in the name of science.

SICKO???

No, I'm not talking about Kata's weird relationships with rats. I'm talking about the movie....

I'm going tomorrow night with my sister, either at 7 or 8. Its Michael Moore's new movie about our f-ed up healthcare system...Its at the Keystone Arts Theatre...prob a little over an hour drive for you guys. Just putting it out there in case anybody wants to come.

Hand/Milk Shakes

Hey guys, I don't really care about meeting the new PU president, but let's go to hand/milk shakes for free milkshakes on monday july 16th from 3:30-5

lunch today?

anybody wanna meet up for lunch at some point today? i was thinking maybe boiler market around noonish, but i could be easily convinced to go somewhere else at another time.

let's go blueberry picking tomorrow afternoon?

Freezer Veg

Reminder for us to bring the Frost's cooler to summer league so Kali can fill'er up with more freezer veggies! woohoo!

Plans for tonight guys? Definitely dinner - anything else?

I don't know about the rest of you but that Indian food from last night is still haunting me. Mmm greaseball in my belly.

i hope everyone had a blast at sandblast (no pun intended). in the meantime, prankwars have begun here and i just finished putting a midget horse in someone's bathroom. thought you'd like to know. just imagine a midget horse jumping reeeeeeaaaaal high.

peace

RE: Adventure

As per the townhouse camping idea, I think we are gonna try to stay in the city for the weekend to maximize drunkenness and sleeping- in- ed-ness. Where is everybody staying? It looks like Eric and I are gonna be at Vasili's (darn close to fields). Also, what time do you guys want to leave tonight?

Additionally, we should have a barbecue at Kevin's new place ASAP.

AAAAAAAHHHHH

Hello everybody!!! oh how i've missed you. when i see all the fun party pics, it brings a smile (then a tear) to my face. a little sidenote: i'm exhausted right now so forgive the lame writing. anyways, i don't have a lot of time to write, but i want you all to mark something on your calendars. i have from aug. 1-6 completely off and i want to spend it with all of you doing whatever you like!!!! so tell your bosses/profs you need the time off so you can have the best time of your life with meeeeee hahaha. theres plenty to do and it will all be crazy fun!!! i miss you guys tons and hope you'll seriously consider taking the roadtrip of the summer this august.

much love,
darc

p.s. if i get more time soon, i'll write later.

Update from the MN

I just signed a lease on an apartment! And I can move in whenever I want, I just have to give them a weeks notice. Hooray!

427 4th Street S.E.
Apt. 304
Minneapolis MN, 55414

P.S. I miss you guys so much that Ima gonna cook yins guys a scrumdiddlyuptious dinner when I get back - you get yo'selves ready....

Ye of little faith

Read em and weep Bones

1) The story http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE6D6143EF937A35754C0A96E958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fI%2fIndependence%20Day%20%28US%29%20%28July%204%29

2) The Law
http://www.newsnet5.com/News/338869/detail.html

3) The street
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Lacey+Lane+Broadview+Heights+OH&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.077336,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=41.337719,-81.64921&spn=0.007653,0.014591&z=16&om=1&pw=2

4) Bald Eagles are no longer endangered
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287105,00.html

love schwa"everything I say is true"rtz

Minnesota

is nice.

I can't wait to be back. And I probably will not be able to go to Sandblast (thank you-waste-of-time errands). Hope everyone is enjoying their week and eating well. No apartment yet...

Love,
disgruntled zilla

P.S. guess where we just ate? Perkins (whaat?!)

Alaska Pictures

http://flickr.com/photos/kevin_schwartzenberg/sets/72157600595971310/

Gun Show weekend pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8820433@N04/sets/72157600603791503/

rest in peace buddy...

Commune

Scouted some property during my free time...it's a little secluded but the view's not bad

Adventure?

Hey guys. Forgive me if this info is somewhere in the last 20 posts, I'm getting charged by the minute for internet access right now so I'm not reading old posts. What is everyone doing the weekend of SandBlast? The reason I mention it is that I am moving into my new place that weekend, and if people are going up for the tournament we could have a primitive campout in my townhouse living room. Thoughts? I'll be back in town on the 30th (or the 29th? maybe I have no concept of time).

P.S.- Our commune just got moved to Alaska

Questions answered

A little lesson in anatomy, hormones etc.

The gall bladder is indeed not a vital organ. Its purpose in the body is to transfer bile from the liver to the intestine. After received from the liver, the bile release from the gall bladder is stimulated by the hormone cholecystokinin (CCK). CCK is a hunger suppressant (i.e. it signals satiety) and acts to release digestive enzymes and bile from both the gall bladder and pancreas. Once bile is released from the gall bladder it travels to the intestine where the it is reabsorbed. This is efficacious because it increases water retention and reabsorption of bile through the intestinal wall. If the gall bladder needs to be removed, unconcentrated bile will drain directly from the liver to the intestine which isn't dangerous but does reduce the efficiency of bile absorbtion/digestion.

The pancreas secretes insulin, glucagon and somatostatin (growth hormone inhibiting hormone).

Couscous is made from rolling and shaping semolina wheat and coating with finely ground wheat flour.

I am on week 5 out of 6 of this fat pill/cream cheese study and I am the only one that has not had (almost) any rise (or fall) of my serum triglycerides. Apparently I'm stable, which is abnormal and the professor hates me. I am the outlier of his data.

minnesota state parks

ive been looking into the minnesota idea for our vacation, and found this website.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/map.html

it shows the location of each state park in MN, and links to their websites. Since there are so many parks, we can camp at a few different parks over the trip. then on the way back drop kata off in MN. (or some variation of that plan.) ive been looking at the parks a little bit. they dont seem too expensive and look like they have plenty to offer in the way of hiking/camping/canoeing. i dont know what all goes into planning camping trips, but this seems like it shouldnt be too bad (especially if we move from park to park).

Two's Day Night

So what's goin' on tonight kids? I feel like a little disc golfin' if anyone else is up for it. I get done with class in about 2 and a half hours ago, so I should be free for whatever after that. There were some talks of a possible recycling run before we go disc golfing... depending on what time people feel like starting those activities we might be pressed for time concerning dinner. The Zilla has to eat by 9 or her car turns back into a pumpkin or something. I'm thinking maybe postpone the recycling trip a day or two?

Thoughts? When do people finish work? Who actually wants to go disc golfin'?

Also, what's for dinner tonight guys?

Love,
Uncle Joey Galdstone

P.S. 1408 sucked, but it still got an 8/10 on imdb.com ... yikes.

Gun Show Details...

ok, so here's what i'm thinkin'

i would like to drive up on friday night and have everyone over at my parents place for dinner and then we would stay there friday night.

then on saturday we could do whatever we want to do until we head to the gizun shizow.

thoughts? questions?

kali? what's your situation? are you coming up for the gun show?

bones wants to drive up saturday.

love,
joey

Hopped up on coffee

So...today I had a pretty large cup of coffee since I was up early had to drive a lot and then work all day. Ever since I've been at work I've been freaking out. Tony just left me in charge of figuring out what primers to order for a project I'm going to work on. It seems like a really important task and my brain is having a hard time doing anything right now...here we go. Hope I don't screw up all the data for the next few weeks...

Photogenic Phriday and the Attack of the Katazilla

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8820433@N04/sets/72157600471016655/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KZT_ZfqpMGc

Greetings from Alaska

Hey kids. It's surprisingly warm here. Yesterday I got pooped on by a seagull. Hope you're having fun in Indiana

Dinner ideas...

For tonight or any night, put 'em on me

blueberry picking

When are we going kids? What to do tonight? pickup?

http://www.pickyourown.org/INnorth.htm

Fat Absorption

In case any of you fatties want to lose weight here's a fantastic idea. Watch out for the gas with an oily discharge - you might want to bring a change of pants to work....

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003751119_dietdrug17.html

Colorado Vacation

What do you guys think about Aug 2nd-12th for the Colorado trip? If not, is their a better time/location, should it be longer, etc..

Pictures and the Moany Bones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtn4lfrOt50

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8820433@N04/sets/72157600383823206/

A new [less] awkward question

So I was running around town doing some errands today, and I went to get a haircut. You may have heard my haircut stories before, but if not, basically there are only two human beings who I allow to cut my hair unless there is no chance of me getting to see them for months. Both of them happen to work in the same barber shop and one of them gave me my first haircut. Needless to say, there's a special bond. Well I got to Werner's Barber Shop and went inside only to learn that both Bob and Werner have retired! I left quietly trying not to insult the other three barbers who took over. So I've been thinking about barbers all day and I thought of a new awkward question:

Which of your friends would you let lather you up...and then give you a shave with a straight razor?

Ladies, keep in mind that this is your jugular we are talking about. Thoughts?

Picnic Stuff

Does anyone have a picnic basket? :) or a cooler?
What about cups for the wine?
I have some blankets I can bring
Any other suggestions on food and/or stuff?

List so far:
Strawberries (2x)
Cherries
Peaches
(I have no idea what people really want - the strawberries are definite the other fruits??)
Avocado (3x)
Tomato (2x)
Fresh Basil (above mushrooms in produce section)
Cucumber
Carrots
Green & Red Pepper
*Hummus (roasted red pepper, roasted garlic)
*Mozzarella
*Brie
Pita (1x whole wheat)
Triscuits (2x)
Bruschetta
*in refridgerated area by breads, deli meat, after produce section

Wines (4-5 bottles??)
some good wine suggestions (but get whatever you want):
chianti, shiraz, cabernet sav., pinot noir, chardonnay (if we have a cooler?), muscat

Joe's List
seasoned salt
olives
whipped cream

Oh NASA

I understand that nasa does a lot of good for us...but articles like this are so one sided and this is what the public sees so often. eric, go out and put a good name to nasa. maybe write an editorial to time.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1632890,00.html

Nut Catchin'

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c98sXKH4h9E

Slothy's best catch at his slothball game

Story Time With Darcy

Please Darcy as soon as you get an opportunity.....put it on me!

tonight and tomorrow - by scrote bagley

seeing as how I don’t have a job
obviously means I don’t have a boss
so noone can say I can’t go to the store
and pick my ass up some alfredo sauce

concerning the softball game here’s what I think
though it’s at 8, I think we should go
cause without lots of players at pickup it stinks
cause c’mon, let’s face it, those high-schoolers blow

afterwards Indian dinner sounds nice
I’ve never had it and it sounds really good
as long as the restaurant is crawling with mice
I just cant have dinner without poop in my food

disc golf sounds fun tonight, yeah we should go
and afterwards quickly whip up a nice dinner
ironically k-zilla is fasting, you know
with only reeses pieces and fat pills within her

so huzzah for tonight and huzzah for tomorrow
I hope this post satisfied all of your wishes
cause now I must leave you and tend to the kitchen
to gather the pots and the pans to do dishes

Como Se Llama....

Margaret
Marge
Madge
Margit
Marget
Marge-it
Marge-et
Marg-a-rita
Sietsema Pizzema
Bones
Dem Bones
Lazy Bones
No siree Bones
Trombones
Boines
Boñez (Bone-yez)
Margarit Boñez

softball 6/13

my softball game is at 8pm this wednesday, it will finish at 9ish. do we have dinner plans?

Tuesay's planned activites

What's going on tonight? I missed one night and I feel lost. There's nothing on the calendar and there's no frisbee to be played. Can we go disc golfing after I get out of work? Can we maybe go bicycle riding? Is there a dinner?

Has anyone ever gone into work early in the morning only to discover a few hours later, after interacting with about 15 people, that you have 2 different shoes on?

yea...one brown, one black....

PD recap

before i forget, this is what i remember. you should add and edit.
i love you all you creepy crappy tenters you.

Friday:
bones begins making lists
bones forgets car charger, chapstick
pack kevin's pdays bag (including all black clothing, silly hats, black pepper and 3 nalgenes)
kidnap kevin as he returns from greece
drive to versailles and discover just how big bones' eyes are
arrive at pdays (beers to the people, dig for tent, find homies, beers to the people, set up tent set up chairs)
play ketchup (what did the mama tomato say to the baby tomato)
distribute whiskey, drink beer
play a game that includes getting shocked
scenarios (you used to be a monkey but now you're a human, but she's still a monkey and in love with you. oh and you just had a midget baby....)
"na-tay," kick to the balls, shove into the tent
zilla gets lost - employs bones to cuddle - steals blanket

Saturday:
bones wakes up discovering she used a Subway sandwich, contact solution and a flashlight as a pillow
the sweltering side of the tent
"why dont you warm up your butt, come over here and put it on me!"
getting lost on the way to the Sweet Shop, versailles is full of children under the age of 10
cold showers - "im staring at a dude and i'm naked"
awkward question list (please post)
Gario hat
chicken dinners
energy drink from hell "go find a frisbee and throw it as far as you can then time my sprints"
distributing whiskey to the people
penis puppet show
flappy vaJayJays
mad libs
foreign language dialogues
kevin enters the tent:
-who has my sleeping bag?
- i hate you you creepy crappy tenters
- como se dice "frostbite?"
- i'm hungry and im half on half off a platform of french fries


fantastic weekend guys. Now perhaps I should get back to work.....

So far so good

Good weekend kids. So far this summer has been everything we've wanted it to be. Keep up the good work, see ya'll at family dinners this week...that's right it was plural...we can have salad more than once if you'd like. Um...can we please re-count p-days on here so that at the end of the summer we have something to go back and look at and remember all the crazy shananigans besides the pictures?

Challenged

Oh, and I have no idea how to invite Darcy to this blog....

don't make fun of me

Another TBD?

About the Minneapolis trip (weekend July 22-23) -

My parents are really excited to help me find apartments and are planning a trip in early July (which also means I may have to miss a Click You event....sigh....). This could change our plans in one of two ways. Either it becomes another TBD weekend (since apt finding hopefully would already have happened and since I'm not sure exactly how excited everyone is to go to Minneapolis - its kind of far) OR since I would already have an apartment (hopefully) we could go to Minneapolis, have a place to stay (albeit empty) and visit Jimmy/discover Minneapolis. I'm down for either although I realize it depends entirely on me actually sequestering an apartment.

Anyway let me know what you guys think - and I'll let you know if I find a place to live/whats happening with that.

Time Wasters

Another way to waste time, jess gave this to me tonight...

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_frisbee

Indy Concert

Um...should we be getting tickets for that concert in indy or is it something we can do at the door?

PS I'm still ultra full from that delicious Indian food that we had....oh chicken...

After summer league 6/7

we're goin to go eat indian food at some place near the fields, you are all invited.

What do you guys do when you seem to have hit the end of the internet. I need ideas of things that I can look up that would seem educational so that when I'm wasting time on the internet I don't just look like I'm effing around...I want to look like a good kid that doesn't waste time, but rather, spends their time being educated and well informed. I will still have 3-4 hours of downtime today and I've read most of the latest news.

Rules of having friends

If you are going to be missing an event you should inform the group so that we don't have to worry about you and whether or not you've been kidnapped by creepy people.

A day in the life of a butler employee

okay...so ive been working on designing a tail gearbox (TGB) and intermediate gearbox (IGB) for butler for about 9 months now. the tgb and igb are extremely important parts of the helicopter, they make the blades on the tail of helicopter spin. (without it, helicopters cant fly).

we have been in the preliminary design phase (PD) the entire 9 months, and the design review that the customer (sikorsky) must give the military (navair) is approaching. actually, our PDR must be complete and given to sikorsky for review in less than 2 weeks.

heres the status of the TGB

the tgb is about 30-40 lbs OVER-weight (thats alot), and doesnt meet ANY of the stress criterion (much less the severe stress criterion where it needs work when part of it is broken). im also pretty sure that even with fancy manufacturing techniques, that we cant even make this stupid piece of junk. the cherry on the top of this shit cake? the loads we use as a stress group to evaluate the design have just been INCREASED by 30%.....

30%!!!!! WTF, 2 weeks before PDR the all-knowing sikorsky engineers realize the loads theyve been giving us for 9 months(!) are incorrect. So, we have 2 weeks to fix a design that hasnt worked since day 1, only now the loads are 30% higher.

well, thisll be fun. When the year 2011 comes around, and you get a chance to fly in the new CH53-K Heavy Lift helicopter...dont...trust me.

Tenative Calendar of Events

This is what we came up with last weekend. Check your date books to see if theres any conflict so we can adjust. I have updated the upcomming events list as appropriate. Oh, lets think of some things to do for the TBD weekends.

JUNE
9-10 - Poultry Days
13 (wed?) Softball Game
15th Indy Concert
21st (Thurs) - Family dinner in Indy after summer league
23-24 TBD
30th Gun Show

JULY
7-8 Sandblast/Mars??
14-15 Dune Camping
21-22 Minneapolis?
28-29 TBD

AUGUST
4-5... Colorado??

Softball Tonight

i know marge has been wanting to know... my company softball game is at 7pm tonight against those YMCA bastards. look for me in right-center field, number 16!

Summer, Go!

i guess were gonna use a blog to help plan out summer events. kata, marge, kali, and i roughed out some dates and plans during our awesome muncie adventure. I will post those as soon as i get them, then we can discuss dates/availability of everyone involved. welcome to the summer blog 2007!!