I have too many blogs.
Since I picked up the paid blogging gig over at Grocery School, I’ve done a poor job keeping up on the rest of my bloggy goodness. I’ve poked around Word Press in the hopes of turning Kosher Vegan Lasagna and Wine and Thou into seperate pages under the umbrella of Oseland.Com. Sure, it can be done, but not in the twenty minutes of precious time I’m willing to give it right now.
Since folks looking for kosher recipes really don’t care what amusing videos I found on YouTube this week and my trief loving porktastic beer drinking friends couldn’t care less about $12 wines, I’m going to keep seperate feeds until I have time to bring everything together the way it deserves. Right now, that means some time in 2009.
Since this blog had been on the outs for awhile, I’m officially retiring it as anything other than an archive.
If you need your daily fix of snark, check out Grocery School. Otherwise, update your RSS feeds to oseland.com for occasional updates about what’s going on with me.
Posted by: Chris Rachael in work
In addition to my daily writing for Grocery School and occasional bits for Food Gear, I’m now scripting as well.
Check out How to Buy Home Brew.
Fancast, a nifty movie news & reviews site, invited me to compare the incredible movie Mongol with what we know of Genghis Khan’s actual life.
Check out my article, Genghis Khan: A Love Story.
If you’re wondering what else I’ve been up to since I’ve let posting over here slack so badly, visit my shallow but entertaining home at www.oseland.com.
I spent this afternoon at a wedding reception. Since I didn’t know how long it would last or if people would want to do anything afterwards, I left myself the rest of the day free.
A free Saturday.
There was a mountain of temptation to sneak off to Six Flaggs or Cherokee Park, but instead I decided it was high time to get my office unpacked. I end up writing from my comfy living room chair most of the time. Sometimes, if I want to avoid interruption, it’s good to have a closeable door.
I’ve cleaned the living room of crap, repaired the broken drawer on my desk, and unpacked another dozen boxes I’d allowed myself to work around for the last few months. It’s good to have a functional office again. Heck, if you ignore the carpets this place feels downright presentable right now.
Maybe I should experiment with more of this “unscheduled” time.
But I never would have guessed that it would still be around after the apocalypse.
A wave of lust hit me when I read about the new solid state Eee PC’s. They’re small, they’re cheap, and they’ll fit in a handbag. Oh, the shiny. All sorts of happy potentials danced in my brain until I was bitch slapped by a shocking realization. If the iPhone 2 really does have enterprise level features, all I need is a bluetooth keyboard and it’ll have everything I want in an ultraportable computer for a fraction the price and size.
I love my phone.
Because I fell asleep in the middle of the movie. I had a grand time before hand. Rum, costumes, rum, a caricature artist, rum, teaching small children to use a whip, and a bucket of rum. Alas, somewhere between bickering in trucks and the final credits, I found myself in a land of adventure wherein Marion rescued Indiana from falling into a pit of spikes outside the Tomb of Gilgamesh. As they descended into the bowels of the temple, some private secrets were revealed (none of which involved Shia LeBouf), several traps were cleverly disabled, and they were about to open the actual sarcophagus … when I was rudely elbowed back to wakey land.
Meanwhile, everyone else saw a bad remake of Cocoon.
My Indy was better.
June 7 - 8
Jello Wars / Boardgames Meetup
June 14
Jason & Laura’s Wedding
June 20 - 22
Chaz & Chris Rachael’s anniversary - we’ll be out of town
June 27 - 29
Origins?
July 4 - 6
Fireworks Xtravaganza
July 11 - 13
Boardgames Meetup
July 18 - 20
KY Ren Faire
July 25 - 27
CR Out of Town - you guys party down with Chaz
August 1 - 3
Open - POSSIBLE COMMUNAL AUGUST BIRTHDAY PARTY?
August 8 - 10
Boardgames Meetup
CR Out of Town (Business Training)
August 15 - 17
GenCon?
August 22 - 24
Chaz’s Birthday Party - stay tuned!
August 29 - 31
DragonCon
Posted by: Chris Rachael in travel
Screw flying cars. I want my anti-sleep pills.
We pulled into town at 2:30 this morning after a festive weekend in Atlanta. Yes, we’d originally planned a trip to Chicago. HOORAY FOR SPONTANAITY! I was up again at 7:00. That’s less than five hours later. Now, I’m still adapting to this “waking up in the morning” nonsense. It was nice to see 2:30 again. I’ve missed it. Seven, though, is an hour I could go my entire life without ever visiting. EVER, I tell you!
Someday, my subject and predicate friends will snuggle up close and make happy sentence babies together. Tonight, though, I’m going to bed early so I can rise at an hour only fit for the undead. Lo shall I feast on the brains of my coworkers! Surely that’ll wake me up. Somewhere I read that a live human brain has about the same consistency as room temperature butter. I wonder if it spreads well on garlic bread?
Suffice it to say I’m going to bed early. Lucid writing can wait until tomorrow.
Posted by: Chris Rachael in travel
We planned on visiting Chicago this weekend. However, it’s gorgeous here. Chaz couldn’t bring himself to give up beautiful weather for something cold and windy. Instead, we’re heading south to Atlanta. It’s time to check out the neigh infamous Atlanta Ren Faire. Afterwards, dancing. Chaz already found a bar advertising a 32 oz bucket of rum.