Do Georgia’s license plates really day coffee on them? This one on the car parked in front of me clearly does. And I’m kind jealous.
Category: Daily Life
These are my daily rants, stories, and what not.
Shoe Evolution
There was probably a good decade when I didn’t tie my shoes if I wasn’t exercising. Probably longer than a decade. All of high school for sure. All of college too.
I had some great Chuck Taylors in high school. I’d wear them all fall and winter, and when it got nice outside I’d rip the tongues out of them and cut off the rubber toe part to make sandals. They were amazing, and it was one of those things I did that no one else I knew did. Unique. Felt good at that age and time.
Later in high school I had a pair of “Duck Tape Shoes” as my winter shoes. I wrapped old running shoes in duck tape, sealed the seams with a lighter and used them as boots. Boots with no traction at all, but boots.
Even after college, I took my old work shoes, some black leather ones from target (ok fake leather ones from Target) and untied the laces, put knots at the end, and wore them as everyday shoes. These ones added an inch to my height and made me feel good.
For some reason now though, I can’t go out without tying my shoes. I need them to be tied otherwise it feels weird. All those times people said to pick up my feet, it was my untied shoes. I can’t stand the drag now though.
Growth as a human?
Maybe.
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P.S. – Give me the standard “Around the Tree” way to tie my shoes. That Bunny Ears method, I roll that way. Uncivilized I tell you.
Early morning kitty cuddling…
I assume this is a daily happening throughout the week. Angelo doesn’t seem to mind the attention.
Silencio
If you know me, you probably know how much I loved the movie Mulholland Drive by David Lynch.
Not only was it a masterpiece mind fuck by David Lynch, but it came out in that perfect period of my life. It came out in 2001, right after I graduated college, drove across the country and was back home living with my parents for a year. I had a lot of free time on my hands, hadn’t started really living life or paying back student loans – so I had money to spend, and I had my best friend from high school, Reggie, back home also. That meant when a weird movie came out and was actually playing in my home town, we were going to see it.
But there’s more. It didn’t play at the normal theater. It played at Aimee’s Movie and Dinner. Aimee’s had just opened at that point. Glens Falls (the city neighboring my home town) was trying to revitalize it’s downtown, and Aimee’s was part of it. Aimee’s was next door to Wallabee’s Jazz Bar and served food and drinks during the movie. Most dinner and movie places I assumed served dinner, then the movie. Aimee’s took your order, started the movie and brought you your food. It was fantastic. Unfortunately from our experiences it was going well. There were never more than 6, or 8 people there at a time.
So we went often. I think Reggie and I saw Mulholland Drive 4 times there during its run. And thankfully Aimee’s is still open and doing much better business than that first year.
This year, when Sam saw that Silencio was coming to the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, we had to get tickets and go. The music of David Lynch. Perfect. If you don’t know, Silencio was a club where the pivotal scene of Mulholland Drive took place. It is a memorable spanish version of Roy Orbinson’s song Crying by Rebekah Del Rio.
Silencio was amazing. They played two full sets.
Voted
Who voted in a primary….
This guy did.
And the new couch proves comfy.
I woke up at 4 am and I struggled to get back to sleep.
I tried my usual trick…. put an episode of Futurama on my phone, turn it over, and fall asleep listening to it. Futurama has been my go to sleeping method for years. Almost never fails me. I’ve gone from falling asleep watching an episode, turn just hearing an episode and falling asleep. Sam struggles to fall asleep to noise or people talking…. I kind of need it. Sam needs dark, I can fall asleep with whatever. So our compromise is that I put Futurama on my my phone, flip the phone over so its dark still, and wear headphone while falling asleep. It’s sounds elaborate typed out, but its not. Sam never really complained about the light or noise, I just know she gets to sleep faster without it.
But while I fell alseep great last night. I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to work with Futurama on my phone. So I tried sleeping trick number two: move locations. I went out to the living room to lay back down and try to fall asleep. It worked. It worked perfectly. Within minutes of laying down I got back to sleep.
I put that on new couch and his amazingness.
Of course I had a weird dream that I woke up at 7:59 and it was still dark outside. It was really vivid too. In my dream my alarms didn’t go off, and I kept checking my phone and it kept saying 7:59. It was dark outside and my alarms had never gone off. In my dream I grabbed Sam’s computer off the coffee table and it too said 7:59 (strange because Sam’s computer is on the coffee table this morning).
I blame that dream on the Scotchy Scotch Scotch I ate last night.
Sam bought me a pint of it and I may have eaten the whole pint in one sitting. It was fantastic and I couldn’t resist.
When I actually did wake up it was 5:36 am, 4 minutes before my alarm. Which still sucks, but at least I won’t be late for work.