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Life, Minutiae, Toys, Irrational Phobias, Peeves, Fiber

How To Alienate A Neighbor

Does this ever happen to you? Sometimes I let my sense of humor get the best of me. Or is it my love of obscure musical groups and odd legal terms?
During the 4th of July holiday, I went out into my backyard to watch N hanging her laundry. My neighbor and his wife were [...]

Longcut

I’ve been waiting for this for almost twenty years.
Yesterday, they finally opened up the new C-470/Alameda interchange, which makes it a lot faster/easier for me to get onto the highway closest to my home. This interchange has been rumored practically ever since I moved in, 18 years ago. I had begun to give [...]

Abnormal Culinary Meme

I’m inventing a new Internet meme, though I know variations of this have been done before. It’s a simple one: Name ten food-related preferences you have that you deem to be abnormal or unusual compared to the rest of America (or whatever country you hail from). Avoid just mentioning popular foods you dislike. [...]

Vacation Debriefing

Things I learned on my Pennsylvania trip last week, that I didn’t learn from my trip last year:
Pennsylvania has strange beer laws. You can’t buy beer in grocery stores or liquor stores (!), but you can buy it at convenience stores and “beer distributors”. Also, I think you can buy six packs in [...]

Double Your Blogging Fun

Yoo hoo, I’m back!
You may or may not have figured it out, but I’ve been on vacation for the last week. The last seven entries were composed in advance and posted via my iPhone. The iPhone is great for hitting the “Publish” button but not so great at actually composing entries (I can’t [...]

You Betta You Betta You Bet

Hello. Flasshe can’t come to the blog right now, so I’m doing a little guest blogging for him. Let me introduce myself. My name is Spike and I’m a Siamese Fighting Fish. (BTW, InfK and Fahey named their progeny after me.) I’m dead and in Pet Heaven, along with Flasshe’s [...]

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