Category: odd

My friend and all around swell guy Drew Causey posted this and I thought it was worth sharing. Choir sings “Keep Your Business off of Facebook.” Good advice.

i have absolutely no idea how to respond to this prayer at a nascar race from 2011 in nashville. i will however say thanks ship of fools for bringing it to my attention.

first i want to say that today is adam’s birthday. i can’t believe he is 18 years old. he is such an awesome kid that i am really proud of. i am looking forward to hiking with him over spring break.

now to my story.

this week has been one of those weird weeks in wisconsin weather where i cross country skied at the beginning of the week and was riding my bike and running in shorts at the end of the week. seriously, it was in the mid-60s today while we experienced a low of 9° on monday. so while i was running in shorts today, i was running in tights and shorts to stay warm throughout the rest of the week.

that’s where the weirdness came from.

wednesday i was running through our neighborhood and i saw a guy that i often see running around the neighborhood too. we usually just nod at each other when we run past one another. since i could tell he had obviously just finished running, i thought i would stop and get to know him. after all, i like to be a good neighbor and this guy only lives a few roads from me. we started talking about running, how we both did in the point bock run (he is much faster than me), and various other things. during the conversation he asked me about the tights i was wearing. he wondered if they tended to get hot. i told him not really because they are pretty thin and made of wicking material. i pinched them and pulled them away from my leg so that he could see how thin they were. apparently my pinch and pull method didn’t convince him because he quickly reached out and placed his hand, palm first, on my leg and said “wow, those are really thin.” he then slowly removed his hand from my thigh.

i was in complete shock. i really wasn’t expecting it. i’m sure he didn’t mean anything from it but at the same time i wasn’t sure how to respond. so i decided the best thing to do was run away. so i did.

i think i will get a pair of thicker tights next year … or change my running route. 🙂

i go to the main street portage county public library pretty often. my family is made up of readers so i often find myself checking out and returning books. since the library also has free wifi i often use it as an “office” when i am looking for a place other than emy j’s to do some work. today i went to the library to return, check out and use it as an office.

while checking things out today my library card didn’t initially work. the librarian responded “there is probably some dirt or something on the card preventing the barcode from being read.” this made perfect sense but she then added, “i’ll just wipe it on my magic rear.”

that’s right. she said she was going to wipe it on her butt and before i could say “NO” she moved it to her backside and wiped my card on her rear.  when she tried the barcode reader again it didn’t work.

i guess her butt wasn’t so magic after all.

since i have no plans to use my now butt-wiped card again, i will get a new library card the next time i am at the library.

this is awesome. 6 bandits with sledgehammers try to break into a jewelry store but are thwarted by a 70 year old woman with a large purse. it is incredible. this little old lady runs across the street to chase these guys away with her purse.

i have got to get some of this. this is definitely the funniest packing tape i have ever seen. i know that’s not saying much but it’s still pretty funny. here’s the wikipedia article on “this is spınal tap” for those that might not get the reference – a.k.a. my mom 🙂

via netorama via boing boing.

 

or it could be because i don’t want to spend the money on salting the deck for safety reasons.