march madness of a different sort

So… it seems that I’m getting later and later on these Friday afternoon wasters. I’m sending refunds to all y’all. Next week’s waster is free, too. I turned 38 years old last weekend. That’s a really big number, but I really don’t feel it. I don’t think it, either. That getting old stuff for old people, and I’m not into that. I got a smile a couple weeks ago when one of the faculty at my kid’s college asked if I was a student. Birthday festivities kicked off all day and all night Saturday. Lots of good food and lots of good friends & family to celebrate with. We brewed a couple buckets of homebrew during the day, before hitting the bar in the evening. Master College Waster is home for spring break, so he even came out to the bar for a bit. That was an especially proud moment for me. I did get more than a little toasty, did a number of shots with a number of people, so I apologize to anybody I may have drewled on. Today is the last day for the kids before spring break. They’re off school for the entire week, and spending most of it with their OtherParents. I’ll miss ‘em all, but it’ll be nice for the house to be quiet for a while. All the “doing homework” “driving to practice” and “teacher conferencing” really takes up a lot of time. Not bad time, just a lot of it. (Teacher conferencing happens to be why today’s waster is late, btw.) But it’s Friday afternoon, my brain has turned off, and I’m heading to the bar. Yep, it’s glass breakage night behind the bar at the Hole. It’ll be a long night, too: we’ve got a bar-cleaning to do tonight after closing. Every couple of months we tear down all the equipment, clean it, and try to reassemble it. You can guess how thrilled I am. =================================== I do have a rack of other wasters, though. Lots of silliness going on in the world this week. Info from Client #9, because I know you’re all curious. Even if you won’t admit it. This is my new favorite Kristin. (ex-favorite Kristin: don’t stress. It’s only a temporary infatuation.) http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0312084kristen1.html WAY too much fun, and WAY too much time wasted here. Holy cr@p this shouldn’t be so interesting, but it is. http://flickrvision.com/ Stop wasting your time. Get a life. If you’ve never been able to do those magic vision pictures, where you stare at the pic until your eyes merge other pics, don’t bother clicking. If you do enjoy those, this is one of the best I’ve seen. http://vortrack.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/magic-eye.gif March madness in the best way possible: http://www.washingtonpost.com/beermadness Advertising for the dumb and non-observant: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/ Jess has a dark side, and it comes out in her knitting. http://www.theanticraft.com/archive/beltane07/fetus.htm OK, I admit it. I’m a geek. But I do LOVE pie. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/13/768487.aspx (no, I did not spell it wrong.)