Waste

The place I work, which will remain nameless until I finally leave it, is a gas station that serves hot food. This hot food has to be ready for any customer whenever they want it. The majority of this food is pizza slices, and they can only be left in the food warmer for 90 […]

Blank Page

Here I am with my blog in front of me. A blank white page waiting for me to fill it. What do I put in it? Do I tell you yet again what I did yesterday? Do I complain about work again? Do I tell you how good I feel after running? I suppose I’ll […]

Deleran at the Moathouse

Originally posted on I Burn Everything:
My good friend, Sean Nittner, offered to run a little test-run of Thor Olavsrud and Luke Crane’s new game, Torchbearer. I created Deleran Ap Denemir, an Elven Ranger from the remote village of Nulb, and he joined up with a couple of gents from Hommlet and Verbobonc and headed…

Desperately Seeking

I’ve been working into the late evening shift, getting done at about 11:30 PM. I’m usually by myself at the gas station during the last hour or two. I like to spend those hours doing the end of shift paperwork and just winding down from the torrents of customers coming in seeking sugar, fat, alcohol, […]

No Excuses

Short post today. I’m just writing about what it’s been like out here in Iowa-land for the past couple of days, and what it’s meant for me and my running. I’d like you to take a look at the date of this post. It’s May 3rd, 2013. And then I’d like you to take a […]

Patience

I pride myself on what I describe as ‘infinite patience’. Well, I used to. A while back, while I was in college, I had a couple of simultaneous jobs that required that infinite patience. First, I was a TA teaching Freshman Chemistry Lab. (and I was the only undergrad teaching the lab too, so I […]

Cheat Day

I’ve been doing things lately to make myself a bit more healthy. I’ve been eating much better. I especially have forced myself to eat nothing (or at least very little) from the gas station I work at. We make pizza and hot dogs and all the other carnival food that many Americans just consider ‘lunch’. […]

The Echo Chamber

You’ve all seen it. Or at least you’ve heard about it. Maybe you’re one of the folks who contribute to it. It’s the Echo Chamber. These days it’s mainly on television and the internet. If it’s happening on TV, it’s usually when the talking heads are screaming at each other or at imaginary opponents or ideas. […]

Sensitive Saturday – Zombie Haikus

My buddy Govneh likes to share her zombie haikus. Thought I’d write a few. Raided garden store Planted the beans too shallow Birds feasted. We starve. Mid-winter game time Got too many mouths to feed Play Russian Roulette A Shambler visits Laugh at the rotting tramp stamp I used to date her

Some moments from yesterday

Moment 1 I was at work yesterday (yes another work story), and Boris the Soviet Love Hammer was there again, buying his 40s of Bud Light and a handful of scratch-off tickets and lotto tickets. It’s difficult to communicate with a person with a thick accent. It’s doubly difficult to do it when he’s drunk […]