Phishie Blog

Hrm….so I just went to use the restroom at my work (which is in the hallway shared with the rest of the building).  I go in to use one of the urinals (the ones on the wall).   I start peeing.  As I’m going I hear a little kid with their dad in one of the stalls.  The dad is helping the kid use the toilet and the kid is asking all sorts of questions “what’s this? what’s that?” and the dad dutifully answers everything with “don’t touch that” being a common chorus.

I’m still going as they finish and quickly wash their hands.  That’s when the kid walks behind me and I notice out of the corner of my eye it’s a 3-4yo girl.  She points at me (I have my back to them of course) and goes “What’s that daddy?  Why is that man standing at the wall?”

I stayed uncomfortably silent as the father ignored the question and hurried them out the door.

Tomorrow is the day most American men wait season long for.  The Super bowl.  Some for the game, some for the commercials, most for the Super Bowl party.  I decided to have my own small little gather this year and started the prep work for it today.  My menu:

• Bacon Explosion burgers
• Beer Brats/Sausages
• Manwich Cups
• Trail Bologna with Baby Swiss cheese
• Spinach/Cream Cheese pinwheels
• Green Salad with Balsamic Vinegar/Oil dressing

I’m sitting in a McDonalds’ at the moment working remotely via the free Wifi at this golden arches.  Yes, free Wifi at McDonalds.  Canton, OH has the coolest McDonalds I’ve ever been to.  They’ve got big LCD’s on the wall with the news, and another with Spongebob in the kids area.  And touch screen gaming areas.  But these machines aren’t just for kids.  They’ve got games like zuma and spelling games and trivia that no child would have a chance of answering.  In fact I was playing the other night and one of the questions was “How many gallons of beer are in a keg?“  Yeah, that might fly in Ohio but that just screams media frenzy back home.  The McDonalds has great coffee too.  Mochas, cappuchinos, lattes, etc.  I was pleasantly surprised.  It seems pretty popular too.   Had some random guy come to up to me asking questions about my spiffy new MacBook from work. He’s working on an older Mac on the Wifi too. It’s kinda nice working from here.  It’s mostly quiet (other than a few occaisional kids) and I can get fresh coffee/hot chocolate or food instantly.  The only annoyance is having to pack up all my stuff with me to go to the bathroom since there’s no way I’m leaving my laptop unattended on the table.  The temperature is nice and warm inside here too unlike some of the restaurants at home.  Considering it’s 14 degrees (F) outside they take heating pretty seriously up here.

The only big annoyance is that the signal drops to almost nothing every time they turn on the fry machine.

I’ll post about why I’m up here a bit later.

Why do I find these beauties AFTER I’m married?

* I wish I was your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves.

* If I were an enzyme I’d be DNA helicas so I could unzip your genes.

So three months after my wedding I finally am getting the pictures of the wedding posted. I don’t have the pictures from the rest of the trip yet, just the wedding day. The entire dump of them can be found in this directory. The top level are the crappy pics taken by the resort that I had to pay out the nose for. The engagement_party directory are the pictures from the official Chinese engagement and the photographer directory are the actual wedding day pics taken by our photographer friend Derick Marquez. He’s available ladies.

I was originally going to do a write up of the day but the images do a much better job of telling the story. Derick is a great photographer and you can really tell the mood in his shots. They’re worth much more than 1000 words. Here’s some of my favorites (the links are all the low-res versions.  High res are in the main directory).

There’s a lot more pictures of the day though so please take your time looking.

I’ll post the rest of the trip once I have them.