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New design – New posts

July 6, 2010 By mf Leave a Comment

I’ve decided I’m going to try to stick to a regular posting schedule. In fact, I’m going to try for Monday through Friday, with a different topic each day. We shall see how successful I am at it. I have a tentative posting schedule down, but until I actually start (later today perhaps), I’m going to hold off on posting it.

I’m also playing with a new design here (or in this case, less design). I’ve not quiet settled on it yet, but I like what I have so far.

Filed Under: My Life

Prank: Goldfish in Water Cooler

January 11, 2010 By mf Leave a Comment

I put some goldfish in our water cooler at work and it got some good laughs. Just in case you think it’s horrible, keep in mine my rules.

  • The goldfish were unharmed and sent to a good home
  • I covered the water jug so that so fish water got into the cooler
  • I covered the spout so no one even tried to drink it
  • I used an empty bottle and put tap water in it so I didn’t waste bottled water
  • No humans or animals were harmed in this prank :-)

Supplies:

  • 5 goldfish @ 27 cents each
  • duct tape to seal container
  • fish food to keep the guys alive over the weekend

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10 Things I’m Looking Forward to in 2010

January 6, 2010 By mf 2 Comments
  1. March Madness. It’ll be good to see Kentucky back in the tourney, hopefully for a deep run!
  2. Spring Training. Still hoping to make this trip one weekend if I can squeeze it in. Nice times at the ballpark!
  3. Boston/Cape Cod/Cooperstown. More baseball. This time, Fenway and Cooperstown (Hall of Fame) and a nice trip to Cape Cod area compliments of an amazing person.
  4. Boot Camp. It’s a Salvation Army youth worker training. It’s the only SA training I actually look forward to.
  5. BNL. New Album coming out in March.
  6. 2010 Giants. This is the year. (haha).
  7. Sharks. I’m going to my first hockey game at the end of January. Go Sharks!
  8. Pranks. I have a new book of pranks. I’m eager to start working through it.
  9. Kentucky. I want to take a trip home to Kentucky during the Summer, which I haven’t done since I’ve been here.
  10. NYC/NYE. NYC Times Square on New Years Eve. Yeah, madness, but I’m super excited.
Filed Under: Featured, My Life, Sports

My Top Albums

January 4, 2010 By mf Leave a Comment

I was thinking the other day about my favorite and/or most influential albums, so I decided to make a list of the Top 10. This isn’t a past decade list, just in my lifetime for me personally, which would give us from about mid-80s or so through present day, in no particular order.

  1. Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morissette. This is the one that inspired me to make the list. I was listening and realized how many of her songs influenced pop culture. Anyone my age probably knows the bitter chick line, “I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner.”  They will also add the emphasis to dinner. It also was about the only thing I could listen to that would tick my parents off, so it worked for my teenage years.But Ironic, Head Over Feet, Hand in My Pocket, You Learn…were all great songs…from one album. The rest of it is pretty good too.
  2. Stunt-Barenaked Ladies. This may be my favorite CD of all-time. One Week is my absolute favorite song, but I can listen to the entire album straight through without skipping. Call & Answer, Never is Enough, etc…good stuff.
  3. August and Everything After-Counting Crows. My Dad actually got this for me. It was then I realized he actually had pretty good music taste and gave us at least one thing we could agree on when I was a teenager.
  4. Continuum-John Mayer. Love him or hate him, he can play guitar and it doesn’t come much better than every single track on Continuum.
  5. Songs You Know by Heart-Jimmy Buffett. ’nuff said.
  6. Songs from an American Movie, Vol. I-Everclear. I just like it. And it’s the home to a top 3 song of mine, Wonderful.
  7. Everything Aerosmith. Choosing one was too hard. I probably listened to Nine Lives the most, but you can’t ignore some of the earlier classics.
  8. Forgot to Breath-The Muckrakers.
  9. Confessions-Usher. Yep. I confess. I actually only ended up with this after my car was stolen. The thieves left it in there and thus began my untouchable PS2 Karaoke version of Burn.
  10. Nevermind-Nirvana. What can I say…I was angry in the 90s.

I’m sure I left off something obvious, but that’s what I got for now. There would be a lot more honorable mentions if I wasn’t trying to look at the entire album.

How about you? What are yours?

Filed Under: In The News, My Life, Pop Culture
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