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kapgar.com - my life in html/xml kapgar.com - my life in html/xml kapgarize me personale-mail · me · archivesfacebook · myspacebooks · tv · g-reader     sweet home chicagochicagoist · beep « chicago blogs » kapgar's blogroll [-] this expanable content box is made using a free javascript from flooble | logic puzzles, brainteasers archives by month [−] november '07 october '07 september '07 august '07 july '07 june '07 may '07 april '07 march '07 february '07 january '07 december '06 november '06 october '06 september '06 august '06 july '06 june '06 may '06 april '06 march '06 february '06 january '06 december '05 november '05 october '05 september '05 august '05 july '05 june '05 this expanable content box is made using a free javascript from flooble | free javascripts archives by category [−] creative writing 2006 creative writing 2007 entertainment 2005 entertainment 2006 entertainment 2007 me & mine 2005 me & mine 2006 me & mine 2007 memes 2005 memes 2006 memes 2007 news 2005 news 2006 news 2007 photography 2005 photography 2006 photography 2007 toys 2005 toys 2006 toys 2007 vacations & holidays 2005 vacations & holidays 2006 vacations & holidays 2007 the web 2005 the web 2006 the web 2007 work 2005 work 2006 work 2007 this expanable content box is made using a free javascript from flooble | free javascripts this weblog is licensed under a creative commons license. hear me james blunt: all the lost souls stars of track and field: centuries before love and war powered by typepad member since 06/2005 monday, 12 november 2007 baby, well, you can bleed on me... katie and i were given the opportunity to try something yesterday that we've never been able to try before... a wondrous little affair known to many as "brunch." up to this point, i'd only known brunch as being a meal that we eat when we're too late for breakfast but can't wait for lunch. just an interim sort of thing. but one of my old grad school professors invited katie and me to go out with him and his wife to the mill race inn in geneva. it was here that the education of kevin apgar began. for example, did you know that there are some places where people still get dressed up to go out for a meal other than dinner? or, did you realize that brunch is actually a three-course meal? i'm sure rw is rolling his eyes that i am only now coming to this realization. sorry, rw, some people are just more cultured than others. but i'm trying to catch up. my awe waned a bit after an hour when i looked down and saw that i had a drop of blood on my right forearm. what the hell?!?! i suddenly realized that the weather shifts had made my allergies go nuts on me and caused a nosebleed. so what would proper decorum dictate would be an appropriate way to deal with this situation? well, i have no idea what is proper... never have, never will. instead i grabbed a tissue from my pocket, blamed the nosebleed on a fledgling cocaine addiction, and excused myself to go to the bathroom to "tidy up" a bit. seriously, on the spur of the moment like that, could you have come up with anything better? thankfully my old professor and his wife have a good sense of humor so i was pretty sure i could get away with that. i think i did. but only time will tell if we get another brunch invitation from them. totally unrelated aside (tua): can someone tell me how it slipped through the system that a toy was made with chemicals that metabolize into ghb? wow. i'm just having a tough time figuring this one out. i wonder if this will be spoofed on robot chicken sometime soon. i can see it. posted by kapgar in me & mine 2007, toys 2007 | permalink | comments (15) thursday, 08 november 2007 there's gonna be trouble, so don't you be around... yesterday, for whatever reason, my officemate was asking me if i was the older or the younger brother in my family. older, why? oh, she said, i can see you being cruel to your brother. really? funny thing is that i really wasn't all that bad to him. well, not in my mind, at least. and my perception is really the only one that counts, right? seriously, though. i wasn't too terrible to him. in fact, unlike most siblings, we actually got along pretty well. we played together, we explored construction sites, we watched movies, we went for bikes rides, etc. in fact, in school in connecticut, i was my brother's numero uno defender against the plethora of bullies that he had. as i even mentioned in my best man's toast at his wedding, i even taught him to swear. all the things that a good brother should do. but, hindsight being 20/20 and all that jazz, i feel i gypped myself out of an adolescence full of physical and mental abuse. why did i have to be such a good guy? this really sucks. i want to go back and reclaim my right to youthful aggression and beat the living snot out of my brother. and, by my calculations, i should be entitled to do this until the year 2021. that gives me 14 years of sheer sibling torture. i figure 14 because he's four years younger than me and the abuse would've likely ended when i left for college at age 18. does that sound fair? should i be able to reclaim this right? yeah, i didn't think it would fly. so please allow me to live vicariously through your stories... i'm sure some of you were either sibling abusers or abusees. maybe you still are. gimme your worst. please? i need this. check that, my brother needs this or i'm making my move. totally unrelated aside (tua): i can't believe i never mentioned this a few weeks ago when we first found out. i was reminded by a letter sitting on our kitchen counter this morning... katie was accepted into grad school! she starts in january! soon she will be corrupting the youth of america as one of public education's finest! muahahahahahaha! ha. posted by kapgar in me & mine 2007 | permalink | comments (26) tuesday, 06 november 2007 i wish i was a full moon shining off a camaro's hood... shortly after katie and i got married and before we joined our gym, i would go for morning run/walks in the neighborhood around our apartment. i would get up very early, while it was still pitch black out, throw on some insanely thick layers of clothing since it was november and december, and head out into my own personal frigidaire. in the years since we joined the gym and since i gave up my pre-dawn treks into the nether, i have forgotten just how much i actually enjoyed those workouts. the world is a different place when there are few to no people around. a handful of cars, at most, on the streets. the only lighting being the stars, moon, and street lamps. it is serenity defined. and it tends to make you forget that you are actually exerting yourself physically because, believe it or not, there is so much to see and hear in the virtual void. this morning, i saw orion in the skies for the first time this year. to me, the famed astral hunter is the easiest constellation to find. i look forward to seeing it. it reassures me that all is well in the world. i also saw a crescent moon. but for the first time in a long time, i was able to see the rest of the moon in shadows around it, filling out the orb. it was quite magnificent. passing by a tree, i startled a bunch of bats that took off to darker locales before the sun arose in its full glory. yes, they were actually bats. i have enough experience with them to know. lastly, i saw the sun rise. i can't remember the last time i actually watched the sky awaken from black and begin to reflect the entirety of the sun's spectrum back at me. blues, oranges, reds, yellows... all there. all this in a single walk. my third morning workout since my announcement last friday. three out of four ain't too bad. totally unrelated aside (tua): the depths to which dustin will plunge for his dream job. aye aye aye. posted by kapgar in me & mine 2007 | permalink | comments (21) friday, 02 november 2007 because i'm fat, i'm fat, you know it... i've come to a sad realization. i'm fat. okay, this is not a groundshattering revelation. it's the truth and i've known it for some time. and, lately, i've been doing little to nothing to resolve my situation. putting on a pair of my favorite jeans this morning and realizing that they were a bit tighter than i'd like is what kicked this topic off the backburner and into the forefront of my mind. not that my health is terrible yet; but better to head the problem off at the pass, as it were. sadly, i've also noticed that with my job and the work around the house and other stuff that i'm doing -- not to mention my desire to still maintain some semblance of a relationship with my wife in the little free time we both have -- the only time i have to work out on a regular basis is in the morning. and for those of you keeping score, the morning is when i do most of my blogging. enter sad realization #2... in order to make the most of my morning by getting in some kind of workout, i need to scale back on my blogging addiction. no! before you ask, i am not giving up on blogging. i'm not going on a temporary nor a permanent vacation. i just need to deliver notice that my presence here in the greater blogger kingdom will be slightly diminished. i'm not sure what kind of posting schedule i will be able to maintain as i feel i need to focus on my health right now. i'm hoping for this irregular posting schedule to help in another way as well... as you can tell by the substance of my posts, my inspiration is pretty much shot and has been for some time. so maybe by not forcing myself to blog every weekday, the quality will return to my posts and i can rediscover the voice that has been lost for so long. so this is me telling all of you to make sure your rss aggregators are properly subscribed to this site. i'm going to try to blog as regularly as i can, but i make no guarantees. don't hate me. once i get everything under control, i hope to return in full force. and with good stuff. i hope so anyway. please wish me luck. heh, i never thought of it this way until just now, but i guess this is also my way of thumbing my nose at nablopomo. instead of forcing myself to blog more, i'm forcing myself to blog less. nablopomo... what a stupid concept. posted by kapgar in me & mine 2007 | permalink | comments (26) thursday, 01 november 2007 and it all started with a big bang... one of the things i like about the new show the big bang theory is the interplay of the four leading mangeeks. they do just what you would think four complete and utter geeks would do... play video games, debate scientific theories, insult each other using math equations, etc. and, before you go and discount their portrayal as geek stereotyping, take this real-life exchange into account. i was in a meeting with three guys from our it department when one of them (to be referred to as it guy 2) started writing on a dry erase board. his handwriting on the board was absolutely miniscule. so tiny we could barely read it. it guy 1: yeah, he likes to write small. me: ya think? it guy 2: is this really that small? it guy 3: um, yeah it is. me: sorry, i'd never seen your handwriting before today... and i still can't. it guy 1: i think he's writing in hi resolution. his brain is on 1024x768. it guy 2: actually it's 1600x1200. it guy 3: in eight point font. me: well, at least it's san serif. and we all bust out laughing because to us, and probably to most of you, everything we said makes perfect sense. so, while it may not have been the same level of sheer geekery as portrayed in the big bang theory, our conversation was still pretty bad. and you can see that this sort of thing really does happen. totally unrelated aside (tua): i need to thank el dariush who sent me a postcard from rome during his recent trip. well, actually i should clarify. the postcard is from rome as in it was purchased in rome. but dariush doesn't love any of us enough to justify spending the money to actually mail it from rome. this postcard has a south central, ky, postmark. posted by kapgar in work 2007 | permalink | comments (10)

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