Posted 4:45 PM by RedSox
The Experiment continues…

I was going through my desk this morning and ran across a folder with old cartoon clippings that I used to have taped up on my desk. I changed desks a few times and never hung them back up. In the folder was two of my absolute favorite Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. Calvin and Hobbes was king when I was in college. The only real reason to read the University newspaper was for the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons and Bloom County. They still crack me up years later. Here is the transcript of those two Calvin and Hobbes comic strips and some random quotes I found on the net that brought up great memories.

Strip 1

CALVIN: We don’t understand what really causes events to happen. History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.

HOBBES: So what are you writing?

CALVIN: A Revisionist autobiography.

Strip 2

CALVIN: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report?

HOBBES: “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes.”

CALVIN: Academia, here I come!


Other quotes I like:

"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help."
-Calvin

"If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some!"
-Hobbes

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
-Calvin

"I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point."
-Calvin

“I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."
-Calvin

"True friends are hard to come by...I need more money."
-Calvin

"I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low."
-Calvin

"The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity the tell the difference."
-Calvin

"It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end."
-Calvin

"You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse!"
-Calvin

"A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do."
-Calvin

"I'M SIGNIFICANT!...screamed the dust speck."
-Calvin

"I keep forgetting that rules are for little nice people."
-Calvin

A nice way to spend my lunch hour. I hope you enjoyed it, as well.

Until next time…

Posted 8:08 PM by RedSox
The Experiment continues…

After a bit of a break, I am back in front of the keyboard. A Glass of a nice German white wine in hand. And almost a half of a bottle already in my tummy. (Thank you Sock Momma.)

We had a very nice weekend. Nice and relaxing. Well except for Sunday between 9:30 and 1:00 but more on that later.

Sock Momma came over for dinner on Saturday bearing two bottles of the aforementioned German white wine. Now I already had a nice bottle of Riesling from a vineyard we went to in Vermont and a bottle of Chardonay already in the fridge. While we waited for Sock Momma’s two bottles of wine to chill properly, she and I tore in to the Riesling and Chardonay with gusto. Boogieshoes had her trusty American Light beer. For some reason, after the other two bottles of wine, Sock Momma and I only made it half way through one of the bottle of German white. I am not typically a wine drinker. I like wine occasionally and am only really partial to white wines.

So we had a nice evening. Sock Momma stayed overnight as we had Special Olympics bowling practice and it really didn’t make sense for her to drive 30 minutes back home just to come back the next morning. We watched the DVD version of Monty Python’s Holy Grail. But I couldn’t find the damn remote for my DVD player so I couldn’t see any of the cool special features. I really want to see the Lego version of “Knights Of The Round Table”. I found it late Sunday evening. Fat lot of good it did me then.

You are going to have to bring that over again, Sock Momma.

So we got up the next morning and went to the first bowling practice of the year. Sigh. The first practice for any Special Olympic sport is barely contained Chaos. Bowling is worst of all because we need to get everyone assigned to a lane but we are never sure exactly who is coming. We have real sign up sheets that all of our athletes get mailed. And most send them back. Of course, inevitably, a bunch of people who sign up, don’t show up. And a bunch of people who never signed up, show up. So I spend 20 minutes adding and deleting folks from the scoring machines. So finally, 25 minute late, we get to start. I am an OK bowler. I average around 150 or so. This Sunday, I was pretty bad. I didn’t get one of the names off of the system before we were forced to start by the Lane manager so myself an another coach took turns bowling for one bowler. I haven’t bowled since November of last year. I bowled the equivalent of 4 and a half games. Today, my arm is ready to fall off. I use a 16 pound ball and when I am going pretty good through the ball with good pace.

Sock Momma came back to the house after bowling and we watched a couple more movies, Orange County (sucked) and the Grinch (surprisingly good). Boogieshoes made baked ziti and we had a good afternoon even though we were still feeling a bit of the effects from our wine drinking.

So here I am tonight. Finishing the wine we opened but didn’t finish on Saturday. Without too much to say. So I guess I'll leave it here for this evening.

Until next time…