I don't like when my jeans are too long. They drag on the ground. It bugs me.
That's all.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Shaving
Like most men, I have facial hair. I have nothing against facial hair. I think that a lot of people can really pull off a good goatee. I have a real respect for the old men who come in with an 18 inch scraggle beard. I think they are awesome
Personally, though, I don't look good with a beard. I've tried! Actually, I've never fully seen me in a beard. What tends to happen with my face is a great three-day growth. Then it stops. I attempted to grow my beard out for a full 14 days. Once it hit three days, it never got any fuller.
This leaves me with a problem.
I cant grow hair, and the three-day thing doesn't look good, which means I'm now stuck shaving every day. Also, I've found that I can't use an electric razor. My stubble is too dark and thick, and when I use an electric razor, it looks like I haven't shaved at all. This leaves a manual razor as my only option. I use a high end manual razor (sorry, no brand promoting today), and it works really well on my face. I really don't have issues with the razor itself, except for the fact that I have to replace blades every so often. I don't cut my face very often, so I dont have any real complaints about that either. I shave in the shower, so it saves me a little bit of time, which means no complaints there.
But I have to do it every day.
Every. Day.
Sigh.
I would love to find something that would allow me to skip shaving every day. I've thought about waxing my face. Seriously, I have. But I need more than a three-day growth in order for waxing to be effective. I've thought about using a hair removal cream. Actually, I did try a hair removal cream. It didn't do anything. I'm assuming that, again, I need some actual hair to be there, but I could be wrong. You have to be careful with cream though, as there are some creams designed for facial hair... and some that aren't. I had a friend who used regular Nair on his face (completely ignoring the warning saying not for use on face. It was printed on the bottle. Twice.) with disastrous results. About 5 minutes into the process, he started complaining about the burning sensation he felt. twenty minutes in, he was crying. After the cream was removed, his face was, indeed, hair free. He also had a lobster red clown smile going from each sideburn down to his Adam's apple and to under his nose. This "smile" stayed with him for over 2 weeks. Not good.
I've thought about using the "no-no" hair removal product, but I'm skeptical. Anyone out there know anything about it?
I'm exceptionally jealous of the men who don't grow facial hair. I sure wish I had that gene. Maybe I'm just doomed to shave. Every day.
Personally, though, I don't look good with a beard. I've tried! Actually, I've never fully seen me in a beard. What tends to happen with my face is a great three-day growth. Then it stops. I attempted to grow my beard out for a full 14 days. Once it hit three days, it never got any fuller.
This leaves me with a problem.
I cant grow hair, and the three-day thing doesn't look good, which means I'm now stuck shaving every day. Also, I've found that I can't use an electric razor. My stubble is too dark and thick, and when I use an electric razor, it looks like I haven't shaved at all. This leaves a manual razor as my only option. I use a high end manual razor (sorry, no brand promoting today), and it works really well on my face. I really don't have issues with the razor itself, except for the fact that I have to replace blades every so often. I don't cut my face very often, so I dont have any real complaints about that either. I shave in the shower, so it saves me a little bit of time, which means no complaints there.
But I have to do it every day.
Every. Day.
Sigh.
I would love to find something that would allow me to skip shaving every day. I've thought about waxing my face. Seriously, I have. But I need more than a three-day growth in order for waxing to be effective. I've thought about using a hair removal cream. Actually, I did try a hair removal cream. It didn't do anything. I'm assuming that, again, I need some actual hair to be there, but I could be wrong. You have to be careful with cream though, as there are some creams designed for facial hair... and some that aren't. I had a friend who used regular Nair on his face (completely ignoring the warning saying not for use on face. It was printed on the bottle. Twice.) with disastrous results. About 5 minutes into the process, he started complaining about the burning sensation he felt. twenty minutes in, he was crying. After the cream was removed, his face was, indeed, hair free. He also had a lobster red clown smile going from each sideburn down to his Adam's apple and to under his nose. This "smile" stayed with him for over 2 weeks. Not good.
I've thought about using the "no-no" hair removal product, but I'm skeptical. Anyone out there know anything about it?
I'm exceptionally jealous of the men who don't grow facial hair. I sure wish I had that gene. Maybe I'm just doomed to shave. Every day.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Too Big
This post brought to you by General Mills' Peanut Butter Toast Crunch. No, seriously! My computer is RIGHT NEXT to a box of it! It's not a half bad cereal, actually. I would probably buy it again
Oh, right... blarg... uh... oh! Here's something!
Pet peeve of mine: over sized packaging. Especially in board games. I love board games. I practically collect them. If I play a board game and I love it, I will probably buy it (or ask for it for a birthday/Christmas/anniversary/Saturday). This ads up to a lot of games though
A LOT of games.
I need somewhere to put these games, and it would be much easier if the boxes weren't so stinking big! Now, this doesn't apply to all game packing. A lot of games are right on the money with their packaging (Card games are awesomely sized), but there are some that are fairly boneheaded.
I'm referring to games where all it is is a pictionary sized box of cards and a small or nonexistent board. I open this huge box to find most of it is empty air and cardboard to keep the smaller box inside from moving. Why on Earth would you make a box so big? I don't want to open a set of Russian dolls just so I can get to my stack of cards. Just give me the stack of cards with a box that fits it perfectly.
In more recent years, a lot of the classic games such as monopoly and sorry are making their game boards foldable into quarters. This is a wonderful development! It makes it so everything is more compact. The width of the box doesn't change, but the length can.
But it doesn't.
The length of the box remains unchanged, leaving room for the tray of pieces on the side. Here's a novel concept, guys. Do what every other game maker does and put the pieces in little bags that can be easily shoved underneath the little cardboard rule shelf you always make. That's where they all end up anyway! This makes for more organized boxes AND can reduce your box size by 20-25% Awesome! That means I have more room in my game closet for MORE GAMES! Woohoo!
Before anyone gets all snarky on me, remember that I am a business person. I am fully aware that a larger box means essentially more advertising space on the shelf when people are looking to buy me games for birthday/Christmas/anniversary/Saturday. I get that. I don't care. Make it smaller.
Perfect sized game boxes:
Phase 10
Settlers of Catan (actually, this one is a tad big until you start stuffing expansions into the same box)
Dominion
Skip Bo
Jenga
Bohnanza
Flux
Blokus
Games that should rethink their packaging
Sorry
Munchkin
Buzzword
Killer Bunnies
Monopoly
Yahtzee (this one is one of the worst)
Wackee Six (not bad, but still big for what it is; six decks of cards)
Again, I don't hate the game. I own every single one of the games mentioned above. They are all wonderful games. I just wish I could fit more of them into the limited space I have.
Speaking of games, if you haven't already, you just lost The Game.
Oh, right... blarg... uh... oh! Here's something!
Pet peeve of mine: over sized packaging. Especially in board games. I love board games. I practically collect them. If I play a board game and I love it, I will probably buy it (or ask for it for a birthday/Christmas/anniversary/Saturday). This ads up to a lot of games though
A LOT of games.
I need somewhere to put these games, and it would be much easier if the boxes weren't so stinking big! Now, this doesn't apply to all game packing. A lot of games are right on the money with their packaging (Card games are awesomely sized), but there are some that are fairly boneheaded.
I'm referring to games where all it is is a pictionary sized box of cards and a small or nonexistent board. I open this huge box to find most of it is empty air and cardboard to keep the smaller box inside from moving. Why on Earth would you make a box so big? I don't want to open a set of Russian dolls just so I can get to my stack of cards. Just give me the stack of cards with a box that fits it perfectly.
In more recent years, a lot of the classic games such as monopoly and sorry are making their game boards foldable into quarters. This is a wonderful development! It makes it so everything is more compact. The width of the box doesn't change, but the length can.
But it doesn't.
The length of the box remains unchanged, leaving room for the tray of pieces on the side. Here's a novel concept, guys. Do what every other game maker does and put the pieces in little bags that can be easily shoved underneath the little cardboard rule shelf you always make. That's where they all end up anyway! This makes for more organized boxes AND can reduce your box size by 20-25% Awesome! That means I have more room in my game closet for MORE GAMES! Woohoo!
Before anyone gets all snarky on me, remember that I am a business person. I am fully aware that a larger box means essentially more advertising space on the shelf when people are looking to buy me games for birthday/Christmas/anniversary/Saturday. I get that. I don't care. Make it smaller.
Perfect sized game boxes:
Phase 10
Settlers of Catan (actually, this one is a tad big until you start stuffing expansions into the same box)
Dominion
Skip Bo
Jenga
Bohnanza
Flux
Blokus
Games that should rethink their packaging
Sorry
Munchkin
Buzzword
Killer Bunnies
Monopoly
Yahtzee (this one is one of the worst)
Wackee Six (not bad, but still big for what it is; six decks of cards)
Again, I don't hate the game. I own every single one of the games mentioned above. They are all wonderful games. I just wish I could fit more of them into the limited space I have.
Speaking of games, if you haven't already, you just lost The Game.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Political Correctness.
This morning I read an article about Washington State that made me very sad. I grew up near Seattle, and I have very close ties to the state. I love it, I think it's wonderful, I would like to live there once I get myself situated and finished with school.
But Washington has done some pretty boneheaded things the past couple years that is making me wonder if the clouds are getting to some people.
I don't mean the gay rights or the legalizing of pot (only one of those, IMO, is a real political issue, by the way), but the idiots in Olympia have some serious 'splaining to do.
The article I read this morning was about how the words "Fisherman", "Freshman" and "Penmanship" were all banned from official documents, possibly even from everyday use. They will be changed to "fisher" "First-Year student" and "Writing", respectively. This is to eliminate the masculine prominence in these words, making them more gender neutral. Seriously? These are common phrases that everyone has used at some point or another. What makes them so bad NOW? I am completely baffled at the state of our world, a world which now is apparently so nit-picky that I have to change my normally educated vocabulary.
Does this mean I can't play "Freshman" as a scrabble word anymore? Because that was a high point value word, assuming I... well, never mind.
I really don't mind some political correctness. When it comes to races, I feel that there are some terms that are very derogatory, and I can agree with eliminating them. Personally, I don't mind being called a "cracka", but apparently I'm too open minded for some people. I would like to bring up a very good point from midget comedian Brad Williams (midget is his word, quit getting all fussy). Brad points out in one of his shows that he makes fun of everyone! He leaves nobody out. What does everyone do at his shows? They laugh! of course! He's funny! Why is it that he can make a joke about (insert ethnicity) people, but I can't? dont' give me the crap that he is a comedian and I"m not, because I don't buy that.
What it all comes down to is people need to not be so dang wrapped up with individual words. It's the thought that counts, and the way something is said, not necessarily the words that are used. The next time somebody corrects me about something I said that was "politically incorrect" I think I"m going to punch them, and ask which hurt worse, the term or the fist?
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/05/49446-new-washington-state-law-bans-words-penmanship-freshman-fisherman-as-sexist/
But Washington has done some pretty boneheaded things the past couple years that is making me wonder if the clouds are getting to some people.
I don't mean the gay rights or the legalizing of pot (only one of those, IMO, is a real political issue, by the way), but the idiots in Olympia have some serious 'splaining to do.
The article I read this morning was about how the words "Fisherman", "Freshman" and "Penmanship" were all banned from official documents, possibly even from everyday use. They will be changed to "fisher" "First-Year student" and "Writing", respectively. This is to eliminate the masculine prominence in these words, making them more gender neutral. Seriously? These are common phrases that everyone has used at some point or another. What makes them so bad NOW? I am completely baffled at the state of our world, a world which now is apparently so nit-picky that I have to change my normally educated vocabulary.
Does this mean I can't play "Freshman" as a scrabble word anymore? Because that was a high point value word, assuming I... well, never mind.
I really don't mind some political correctness. When it comes to races, I feel that there are some terms that are very derogatory, and I can agree with eliminating them. Personally, I don't mind being called a "cracka", but apparently I'm too open minded for some people. I would like to bring up a very good point from midget comedian Brad Williams (midget is his word, quit getting all fussy). Brad points out in one of his shows that he makes fun of everyone! He leaves nobody out. What does everyone do at his shows? They laugh! of course! He's funny! Why is it that he can make a joke about (insert ethnicity) people, but I can't? dont' give me the crap that he is a comedian and I"m not, because I don't buy that.
What it all comes down to is people need to not be so dang wrapped up with individual words. It's the thought that counts, and the way something is said, not necessarily the words that are used. The next time somebody corrects me about something I said that was "politically incorrect" I think I"m going to punch them, and ask which hurt worse, the term or the fist?
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/05/49446-new-washington-state-law-bans-words-penmanship-freshman-fisherman-as-sexist/
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Book
Ok, so I started this thing off a little heavy with some serious complaints. Now I want to do something minor.
I get mildly frustrated with myself when I find myself reading a book that is... ok. Its really not a great read, but its JUST interesting enough to make me want to finish it. The book I'm reading right now, written by an excellent author whose other works I greatly enjoy, is exactly one of those. There's actually no serious plot line. No major overarching goal. Just a bunch of mottled together mini stories with a vague reference to a war about to happen that never actually happens. The characters are not really defined, and a lot of characters are kind of wasted. My friend Joseph, an aspiring writer would be appalled.
But...
It's come up with enough little bends and curves for me to wonder what is going to happen in the coming pages. And then, time and time again, I find myself unsatisfied or still wondering about the outcome. Why do I keep reading this??
Because apparently I'm just that bored... or again, it barely meets my minimum requirements for interest, thus keeping me turning pages.
I definitely need a really good book after this one though. Any suggestions?
I get mildly frustrated with myself when I find myself reading a book that is... ok. Its really not a great read, but its JUST interesting enough to make me want to finish it. The book I'm reading right now, written by an excellent author whose other works I greatly enjoy, is exactly one of those. There's actually no serious plot line. No major overarching goal. Just a bunch of mottled together mini stories with a vague reference to a war about to happen that never actually happens. The characters are not really defined, and a lot of characters are kind of wasted. My friend Joseph, an aspiring writer would be appalled.
But...
It's come up with enough little bends and curves for me to wonder what is going to happen in the coming pages. And then, time and time again, I find myself unsatisfied or still wondering about the outcome. Why do I keep reading this??
Because apparently I'm just that bored... or again, it barely meets my minimum requirements for interest, thus keeping me turning pages.
I definitely need a really good book after this one though. Any suggestions?
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