Mark Wins!

You all are bad friends. You really are. OK, you’re either bad friends you don’t read the Portland Mercury. Fine, I’ll concede it’s probably the latter. But no one out there read last week and what also counts for this week’s Mercury? No one opened up the paper to the letters and read that rather than the normal letters that run every week it was a collection of the best of letters in 2008? Well if they had they would have noticed that yours truly leads off the letters with his letter that won letter of the week back last January. That’s right I penned one of the best of the best of letters. It’s like the crème de le crème of the letter writing populace for 2008. If you need proof here’s the link. Also, the final letter is by far the best one.

I spent yesterday using a five dollar hacksaw to cut my Christmas tree down to size so it can fit in my yard debris can. I then used the same hacksaw to cut down a large limb that broke off of on our trees sometime this week. If you’re wondering if a five dollar hacksaw isn’t the best tool to use to cut thick branches and limbs, well I can tell you it is not. In fact at one point the hacksaw completely feel apart on me. It was fun work though and I can’t think of a better way to spend my New Years morning then in the rain painstakingly cutting wood with a tool not fit for the job.

I then turned my attention to my year end blog. This ate up the next two hours of my day, which is sort of sad considering I worked on it for most of Wednesday at work.

From there Ash and I went to EM where I bought:
Machine Head – The Blackening
Baroness – Red Album
Unsane – Unsane
Kyuss – Wretch
Unearth – The March
Burzum – Det Som Engan Var
Usher – Confessions
Zodiac

I then went home and verbally abused Theo for about an hour as he continually put on shit after shit on TV to watch. What type of shit? Tomcats in HD and The Girl with Sex-Ray Eyes, to name two. Finally we settled on watching Wall-E

Finally I went to sleep only to wake up early for a day of work that I don’t think we should be working. Where I’m going with all this is that at no point did I check the weather and see that snow was even a possibility. Well it did snow, like an inch and a half. I suited up to ride to work and had a heck of time getting off my street. It also turns out that I have no shoe/sock configuration to deal with icy cold water. My feet were so cold they were in pain. I believe my feet have never been colder. The cold was so bad every time I stopped the bike I let out a little grunt of pain. Hey Oregon any time you want to get back to that temperate climate I’ve grown to like so much that would be great.


What are Sex-Ray eyes?