These are my daily rants, stories, and what not.
Must finally be winter in Cleveland, I got my first where the hell is your coat comment from a stranger.
Typically I thrown back a comment like I’m from Buffalo, or something like that. I didn’t even bother to try and explain it today.
It’s only 30 degrees outside and it’s not like I’m walking around outside for 20-30 minutes at a time. I really don’t see the need for a jacket when I walk from my car to a building it from a building back to my car.
I feel like people find a hot sauce they like and they put that on everything.
Me, I’m a Frank’s Hot Sauce kind of person. I put it on eggs, pizza, tacos, pasta, chicken…. pretty much everything.
The other day I put Franks on something new.
I was making a giant wrap as I was super hungry after a long day at work.
I got to work cooking up some chicken on the stove and cutting it into pieces. I decided to toss the chicken in Frank’s before adding it to my giant wrap on top of lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cheese. I grabbed my giant bottle of Frank’s and unscrewed the cap to pour it into a bowl. The cap slipped out of my hands and hit the ground.
Being the super responsive person I am I tracked it all teh way down with my eyes in time for the Franks to splash out of the cap and all the way up into my eyes. Both eyes. And it stung. A lot.
Thankfully Sam wasn’t home to hear me squeal. Or run to the bathroom to wash out my eyes.
Story Moral. Go ahead and put Franks on just about everything. But not your eyes.
Sam and I celebrated our first Halloween and our new home last night.
We knew from the start that this was not going to be a great trick or treating neighborhood. Which was a little bit of a letdown because we’re apartment had been was a trick or treating neighborhood.
But we prepared anyways. Bought some candy, some pumpkins and cleaned up our garage a little bit where we’d have open for trick or treaters. We have a Hue bulb in our lamppost that we set to a bright orange color.
One person showed up. The little grandchild of our neighbors across the street came over with his mom dressed as a construction worker (or was it cowboy?). Either way it was fantastic.
Even without trick or treaters we had a good night of carving pumpkins, eating candy and settling in to watch a horror movie when it became apparent no one else was going to be stopping by.
It’d be easy to blame the massive amount of rain that was falling but but that’s just not the reason. It’s okay we’ll try again next year.
Well not summer, but July.
As a progressive, as someone who kind of despises the current political direction of our government, someone who can’t stand the inane, confusing, misleading, factually incorrect and outright lies made by our president on a daily basis, someone who leaves messages for my senators and representatives Congress (which – despite asking for letters and other communication about their votes, thinking on topics I care about, and other issues – I have received none communication back – I’m looking at you Senator Porter – thanks for writing me off as a constituent), and someone who reads a ton of news each day, its been a frustrating couple of months.
So what do I do? Well July is my month off from work. I’m also taking a month off from politics. I’ll still read headlines, and read local news, but I’m taking July off from engaging in political news or discussion. At least as much as I can.
Think of it as a mental health break. I’ll spend July reading books, maybe (hopefully) hiring a few teachers – which is ironic since it is my month off of work, fixing things around our house (bathroom sink – fixed!), maybe drawing again, and exercising. And take a cue from my cats and just relax.
I’ll re-engage in August.
I will say this political climate of the last two years has made me re-think how I get my news. I’ve gone from only consuming free news (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Politico, etc) to paying for my chief news sources. From reading websites, to reading actual newspapers and dailies.
I subscribe to the Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Skeptical Inquirer and PBS. I also listen to NPR and the BBC. I know the Washington Post definitely has a left leaning slant, but is factually accurate. The Christian Science Monitor is centrist, and has a global view. Same with BBC. Skeptical Inquirer and PBS are not necessarily news (at least in how I consume them), but rather for science discussions and documentaries.
Surprisingly not jumping to immediate reactions, and reading articles written at a later time, with thought, is way easier to digest than ’emerging stories’. These newspaper sources, non-biased sources like the BBC, and dailies like the Christian Science Monitor, are also way more factually accurate than quick reporting stations and sites like CNN, Fox, and MSNBC.
Also, as an interesting end-note, my hometown newspaper, The Post Star, is apparently one of the least biased newspapers in the country. Yeah… That’s an odd statement.
It’s Kenny Loggins Day!!
Like many things Kenny Loggins Day started from something silly, such a coworker making fun of the Footloose soundtrack I was playing. I’m just the guy to run with something ridiculous like that.
The first few years it was just me celebrating by listening to Loggins in my office, but I told people about it at work and they got excited by the absurdity of it all. I went bigger with mailings, business cards, stickers and post cards to celebrate just because… no real reason.
I now know more about Kenny Loggins than any human being has a right to know. And you know what.. I love it. No Kenny Loggins probably doesn’t know about it, but I did tweet at him and mail his fan club in my mailing.
But who cares. The whole point of Kenny Loggins Day is to celebrate something completely ridiculous on an otherwise inconsequential February day. Instead of a dreary winter day, it is a fun day to listen to music, talk unabashedly about Kenny Loggins great on-going and try to get others join on in… just because.
AJ Charpentier
President of the Kenny Loggins Day Association
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There came to be a few simple rules with Kenny Loggins Day.
That’s it. That’s Kenny Loggins Day.
