Crackdown

There's a lot of worry about corporate layoffs in today's economy and that extends to the company I work for, as well. No area is safe from cutbacks--not even Microsoft Outlook.

Farewell, RTA.

-KP

Geekin' out in T minus 90 minutes and counting...

The Dharma Initiative made a timely supply drop before tonight's season premiere.


-KP

You ever drunk Bailey's from a shoe?

I owe Frank and Maria my everlasting happiness for this gem.



-KP

Randomnicity (01.17.09 Edition)

1. It's that time of the year where I keep writing '08 instead of '09 on everything.

2. Look! Pictures!





I'll put more on Facebook/WebShots sometime in the next year.

3. I have been relentlessly playing Fallout 3. It's awesome.

4. I don't necessarily do New Year's resolutions but I am going to try and read more this year. Quite frankly, it took me 6 months just to read one book last year. I blame it on TV. But, even so, there you have it--more reading for KP in 2008. Er, 2009.

5. I've given up on the crappy coffee my employer supplies for us in the kitchenette. It's just horrible, horrible stuff and, after a year and a half of it, the fact that it's free doesn't matter anymore. Now I go down and get Starbucks from downstairs every morning. It's no Grind (which really just means I don't have Leslie to go get coffee with) but at least the coffee tastes good.

6. I have this extreme problem with overwatering houseplants. Example: I killed my cactus this week. How can you kill a frakkin' cactus?!

7. To all my fellow BSG'ers out there: isn't it great that show can still depress the hell out of you? Yet I must watch it. Because it's awesome.

8. Xbox 360 + Netflix may just be the best marriage ever.

9. MoPo and I are still trying to figure out what the hell we want to do for vacation this year. There's just too many places we want to go... we've thought about staying somewhere in the contiguous US, or going back to Oahu, or checking out my homeland of Nicaragua, or going to Mexico, or Canada, or St. Maarten/St. Martin. I think we're leaning towards splitting vacation time between St. Maarten/St. Martin (two countries, teeny, tiny island) and Canada (we have a friend that we've been meaning to visit for ages). However, I'm sure we'll change our mind six more times before actually going.

10. Obama inauguration! Huzzah! (Maybe Spider-Man will show up in RL, too?)

11. I have the perfect dinner planned for the season premiere of Lost. You just wait and see.

-KP

"Is he talking about what I think he was talking about?"
"If you mean time traveling bunnies, then yes."
-Locke & Ben, Lost

The Rake's Song

Words cannot convey how completely psyched I am about the Decemberists' new album, to be released in March. This week they put a song from it on their website. I got even more excited when I realized I already knew this song--Colin Meloy sang it when he did his acoustic tour last year. It's way dark--in a morbid yet humorous way--but amazing. Check out the lyrics:

I had entered into a marriage
In the summer of my twenty-first year
And the bells rang for our wedding
Only now do I remember it clear
Alright, alright, alright

No more a rake and no more a bachelor
I was wedded and it whetted my thirst
Until her womb start spilling out babies
Only then did I reckon my curse
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright

First came Eziah with his crinkled little fingers
Then came Charlotte and that wretched girl Dawn
Ugly Myfanwy died on delivery
Mercifully taking her mother along
Alright, alright, alright

What can one do when one is a widower
Shamefully saddled with three little pests
All that I wanted was the freedom of a new life
So my burden I began to divest
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright

Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove
Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath
Eziah fought but was easily bested
Burned his body for incurring my wrath
Alright, alright, alright

And that's how I came your humble narrator
To be living so easy and free
Expect that you think that I should be haunted
But it never really bothers me
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright

-KP

Sometimes I wonder why I say things.

A glimpse into the nature of our relationship:

KP: "I'm really excited about [next week's season premiere of] Lost."
MoPo: "I can tell."
KP: "You know, I may be more excited for Lost than I was for our wedding day."
*crickets chirp*

-KP

Things that make you go, "hmm."

So, driving the 10 mile commute to work this morning in rush hour traffic. I turn to my right and what do I see? A guy reading the newspaper.

While driving.

C'mon, man.

-KP

"You’re right, I have no excuses! I was totally over the line."
"Over the line? You — you’re — you’re so far past the line, that you — you can’t even see the line! The line is a dot to you!"
-Chandler & Joey, Friends