October 16th, 2006 by Atomictumor
I discovered that I’m still a comic book geek.
I started really liking “The Office” (the American version, that is. The british one still isn’t funny).
I concluded that climbing up into the attic to run the home theater wire up there isn’t ever going to happen.
I got cut on the hand by one of the demon cats.
I read books to Pigpen, and talked dorky with MastaG.
I bought a pair of corduroys, and am wearing them now.
I slept in (until 8).
I watched the leaves not change color.
I lamented the passing of summer (again), and regretted the coming of winter (cuz its all my fault. Or Demeters. Whoever).
I cleaned up the house, and kept it clean for 3 days.
I watched GAC make the new banner, and then forgot to put it up.
I realized that I love (like?) my family more as I get older, and that the farm isn’t a bad place to spend a weekend.
I argued the points of good beer with Philistines like Nodbob and Dustifer, who, much like Daco, prefer Budwater. What worked against me was that the good beer was a 30 minute drive, but the bleah beer was 15 minutes. Guess which one won?
I remembered why I liked my job, and got a handle on why I’ve had a hard time living with myself lately (its because I’m a dick, evidently, but its OK.)
I fell in love with my wife again for the 3652nd day, and married her for the 2nd time.
I thought to myself how nice it is to have friends (both real and imagined).
I got drunk.
I got hung over.
I swore off heavy drinking.
I returned home to two of my favorite records scratched up by the cats, and then forgot my badge to get into work this morning necessitating a sleepy trip back home.
I still have a smile on my face, and life is so good. Vacations are great!
October 16th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Hope you guys aren’t mad at me for letting the cats wreck the place while you were gone. They looked like they were having so much fun…I just hated to be a buzz kill.
BTW, those three felines shit more than any three bovines I’ve ever seen.
October 16th, 2006 at 11:21 am
So what “heathern funny book”, aka a comic book, got the geek excited during your mini-vacation?
October 16th, 2006 at 11:35 am
He found a reader especially for comic books, so he’s pretty much reading every one ever made.
Whatta dork.
October 16th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Specifically, I’ve been catching up with this Marvel “Civil War” nonsense. Its almost like a train wreck, but I can’t look away.
I got tired of comics in my youth in the early 90s, because the trend was toward super awesome big muscled/boobied drawing in the Lee/Liefield style, but the writing (again, in the Lee/Liefield style) was atrocious. Its gone around now to more subdued artwork, more panels and and emphasis on storytelling, which is refreshing for the genre.
Spiderman totally whipped up on Captain America.
October 16th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
I haven’t read Civil War but am eager to do so. And oh yeah Lee/Liefield writing was soooooo bad. I’ve been reading the Joss Whedon X-Men books which are very good, both in art and writing - and recently went back to read old Nick Fury and SHEILD stuff from the late 60s. Trippy weird stuff.
Spidey rules.
Dork.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
How many episodes did you watch of the british office before watching the american offtake? BBC America showed a marathon some time ago of the complete series, we recorded most of it and watched it when we had time. The more you watch, the better it gets. Having watched that version then watching the American one, it was the same thing. You have to stick with it to get into it’s grove. I like both about the same, maybe the American one more only because they have new episode and the BBC America I get doesn’t seem to show it anymore.
The Orig. Brit version of Coupling was pretty good.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
“I watched the leaves not change color.”
I live next to one of the largest leaf peeper hotspots in Massachusetts, the French King Bridge. The locals pretty much have to change travel routes during this time of year so the tourists can park and walk along a usually crowded and dangerous highway to see some damned leaves.
My father is from Arkansas originally and came up here to live after the service in his mid-twenties. When he came up here he was a leaf-peeper type but after a few seasons snapped out of it because after they’re all pretty they need to be raked up. He also never saw or had to drive is snow before.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Yeah, East TN is big for the arboral decay fans. I don’t get the appeal of fall. Its all allergies, raking, and impending cold.
October 16th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Sound like you had fun, and that you spent the weekend appreciating all the things that really matter. Congratulations on reaching the point that many people never do!
October 16th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Yea, and just because I don’t like some expensive oatmeal-fiber lager doesn’t mean I don’t like good beer, you big beer snob.
October 16th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Its a porter, weiner.
Thanks NM!
October 16th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Nodbob is right you metamucil dark suckin snob.
October 16th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
And I thought wine snobs were a bitch…
October 16th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Man, trying to drink a beer with AT that isn’t made with the finest hops, brewed in a solid gold tank, diamonds sprinkled on by fairies in the full moon’s light, and then personally blessed by the Pope himself, is like….well it’s hard…
October 17th, 2006 at 6:24 am
Well, I’m damn sorry I have refined taste, bitches.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:55 am
LOL
October 17th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
I’d just like to point out that Dustifer got just as drunk… well, quite a bit more drunk… on “Budwater” than you did on your diamond sprinkled beer.