Writer's Block: Batter up!

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This is going to sound weird, but pancakes and sausage out of a Mermite can on a cold day in the field. Pancakes were one of the few foods able to survive the trip from kitchen to a field area, and were hot, filling, and we got gallon jugs of syrup to share. Scarf the pancakes, eat the non-rubber sausages, wash everything down with a scalding black tarry substance that claimed to be coffee, and you are ready to rock and roll.

My brain works in strange ways and is way over-stuffed with trivia.

I read trivia books (like the Bathroom Reader series) obsessively and haunt weird news and factoid websites. Sometimes, what I read and what I think up on my own get a bit muddled in my head.

That's evidently what happened last night. I mentioned to Kirsten that I had read an alternate theory on the movie Labyrinth on cracked.com. Searching that site this morning, and a wider net search after that, show that I'm the one on crack. Guess I came up with this myself, and misfiled it in my brain. Oh well. But let me share with you my little theory that turns Labyrinth from a fun fantasy romp with Muppets and David Bowie in very tight pants into a horror film. (Spoilers ahead!)

( I wish the cut tag would come and take you away. Right now. )

I am a twisted bastard. Unless of course I actually did read this somewhere else and filtered it.

The final 27 outs of the Giants 2010 Season

Still not tired of this. Each out of Game 5, including each pitch of all 12 Giant K's

OK, I cave. The British Census Meme

2011 - Living in the middle apartment of a triplex in Santa Clara, Ca. Facing major life changes (again) due to major medical issues. Married to kshandra for just shy of 20 years. Due to health, almost all social interaction are online, mainly through Facebook and LiveJournal. Getting increasingly into medieval history. On way too many medications and using oxygen. Still glowing from the Giants World Series win.

2001 - Living in San Francisco in a great three bedroom apartment in the Middle Sunset right on 19th Ave. with a ever-changing roster of roommates. Working at SuperShuttle as a grave shift dispatcher. Online life is dominated by the Traveller Mailing List and alt.atheism. Dealing with misdiagnosed "seizure disorder" that is actual seizures caused by the medication. Celebrated 10th anniversary with Kiri. Started my LiveJournal

1991 - We lived in the Roach Motel on 8th St in San Jose for the first part of the year, and just before we got married we moved in with a friend. I have no online presence. Major social interaction is at Rocky Horror and the Legion of Rassilon. Favorite restaurant: No Name Pizza in Milpitas. This was the year my first car, The Yellow Peril, finally died. Worked as a security guard and as a guide at the Winchester Mystery House.

1981 - Living with family on Harwood Road in San Jose. Attending Leigh High School, failing everything due to boredom. For the first time in my life, I have a circle of geek friends. Discover phone-phreaking. Greatest accomplishment: we managed to reach the NORAD Watch Desk at Cheyenne Mountain through social engineering. Play a lot of RPGs. Discover good rock music, girls, and Hunter S Thompson, possibly in the same week. Spend most of year glowing about the 49ers.

1971 - On Harwood Road in San Jose. Year split between nursery school and kindergarten at Noddin Elementary. Decide that the US Army and the number 4 are the coolest things ever. My epic refusal to eat anything that even looks like a fruit or a vegetable settles into trench warfare. Want pony for 5th birthday, get little sister instead. Not overly thrilled, but get over it. Watch Apollo missions on TV followed by Star Trek re-runs. Too young to realize that growing up in the seventies would leave me fashion-scarred for life.