Say Cheese(ish)!

I overheard (slash walked into) what turned out to be an interesting situation this evening.
The back-story is simple. I drink and there’s a bar I can walk to/fro my house in a few minutes. Quite safe and I like it that way.
At the bar this evening I heard some talk about a [...]

USA Mens Basketball Gold Medal Game

Props to Spain - mostly. They got a little over chippy at the end.

Regardless, I just watched an amazing basketball game. I’m going to say - or really hoping - that Spain basically played possum in the game we beat them in by 37 a week ago. Assuming so, well played, Spain.

At the half it [...]

I woke up this morning and….

And these words were in my my head. I have some ideas why, but guessing at that would be like telling you I can interpret my own dreams.
Anywho, here they are:
May I lay down with you
and fall asleep each night
I want to wake up shaken
and have you in my sight
I need to rise each morning
and [...]

Two Months Later…

Had I planned to keep this updated, this has likely been a tad longer than I would have expected myself to get things done in. I didn’t, though, so….
I don’t know how it is for the rest of you, but I usually have a few things that I’m actually generally concentrating on over the course [...]

Hooray for Pinball

In the past year and a half or so I’ve become reacquainted with and obsessed with pinball. The game that got me back in was Stern Pinball’s Family Guy game. Stewie Pinball is awesome, and I generally loved the layout of the ramps, etc. In contrast, Stern’s Pirates of the Caribbean was also around, and [...]

What happens when I need to post code & want it’s syntax highlighted?

I install WP-Syntax and go to town is what! It uses GeSHI, which I’ve heard of but never used - piece of cake to use!

In fact, here’s a little of example straight from the curl_setopt page in the php manual

Welcome

First - do not expect anything. I really can’t emphasize that enough. If I don’t delete this in a few days, I’ll probably be referencing the very first thing I posted (this) often.
This ridiculousness started from one of my regularly inane comments about nothing after I had a salmon blt (it was good and from [...]