things that are awesome.
1. Getting ready to go to bed in your new house and realizing that you not only can find all the light switches you need, but that you know what each switch is for.
it’s a twestival.
When the local Twitter peeps use their powers for good, some pretty cool stuff can happen. I saw that firsthand last month, when we visited the Harris Grill bearing piles of winter clothing. The first-ever Pittsburgh HeatUp TweetUp meant a mountain of stuf was delivered to the shelter run by the First Presbyterian Church of… Read More it’s a twestival.
promotion.
Since the inception of Uncle Crappy, I’ve insisted on calling my lovely wife The Wife. There’s more detail here, but the basic reason was that I knew she would loathe the name and find it immensely amusing all at once. While we’ve gotten a lot of lot of mileage from the name over the years… Read More promotion.
the other football.
Three years ago, I developed a strange affliction — I got hooked on soccer. I approached the start of the 2006 World Cup with a determination — which came out of nowhere — that I was going to make an effort to follow the tournament. I enlisted the help of Fred — who loves the… Read More the other football.
twenty five.
I’ve been tagged for this over and over and over, so it’s a little hard to ignore. I am, however, ignoring most of the rules: Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be… Read More twenty five.
hi.
Things are better. You might even say I’m cautiously optimistic. OK. I gotta go buy a new vacuum.
Uncle Crappy 