Author Archive for Christopher

I know a dude’s ear that swallowed a fly

And that dude was me.

I don’t know that swallow is the right word. But whatever, I had a fricking fly in my ear. Do you hear me? A FLY IN MY EAR!

I was sitting here at the computer last night taking a quick study break and there was this huge fly on the computer monitor. I flicked it away a few times because it was annoying me. Well, I guess that annoyed him because he flew into my ear. I’m not talking about flying and landing on my ear and just crawling in. He freaking flew straight into my ear. FLEW INTO MY EAR!

Now, when it first happened, I actually thought he had flown away, because I was feeling around my earlobe and stuff thinking it landed there and I was going to flick him (I’m not sure why I am assuming it was a boy fly) away again, but he wasn’t there, so I thought he was gone. Over the next 5 minutes I kept hearing an intermittent buzzing sound like he was real close by so I kept swatting the area near my ear to get him away. Then I got up to get a Q-tip (yes brand name, no generic cotton swabs for me) and stuck it in to clean out my ear when… well, I guess what I did was piss the little fetcher off, because he started buzzing like a madfly. Buzz buzz buzz, flapping his little wings trying to annoy me (or escape). I didn’t know what to do; I started freaking out. I started shaking my head violently trying to somehow get him to fly out, but all that was doing was making me dizzy. So I sat down on the bed and called Kate and was trying to decide if I needed to go to the ER or something.

So you know when you get out of the shower or pool and you have a little water in your ear, so you kinda bend your head sideways so the water can drain out. I decided that is what I was going to do next. So I’m bent over, and I’m trying to talk to Kate on the phone, and I’m trying to stay calm, and then I start banging on my freaking head trying to get the little bugger out. I’m pounding on my head, and talking to Kate, and I don’t remember exactly what I told her, but I was telling her something, and I’m banging on my head some more as hard as I physically can, and the bastage falls out, straight down onto the floor. He kinda just walked around on the floor for a minute and I assumed he was going to fly away, but 30 minutes later he was still there walking around, so I trapped him in a jar so he could die. This morning I checked and he was sufficiently dead for me so I decided to talk a picture on my phone, so here is he is…

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So I told Kate that finally he came out, and I was really relieved, but then I had the HUGEST KILLER HEADACHE from pounding on my head, which kinda interfered with my studying for the rest of the night.

The Great Pork Rind Shortage of 2008

So in the past few days, Kate has been to Wal-Mart, as well the three different Hy-Vees in town, and apparently NONE of them have any pork rinds in stock… very disappointing.

Something you don’t see everyday in Iowa

So the news has been reporting for a few days that President Bush was going to visit Iowa and tour some of the flooded areas to see what was going on…

Anyways, this morning my carpool buddies picked me up at 0900 and we start heading up I-380 towards Cedar Rapids. At around 0915 we get passed by a state trooper. Big deal, you might say. Well, right after the state trooper is a black SUV, then another, then another. Holy crap, we realize it is the Presidential Motorcade. So the motorcade consists of the first state trooper, followed by about probably 8 of the black Chevrolet Suburbans, followed by probably 8 white vans marked “Media” or “Support” or something similar. Then a few other cars behind that. So they passed us and KC (our driver) pulled into the left lane, only for us to realize, we just broke into the presidential motorcade!!! OOPS! So he pulled back in to the right lane and let everyone pass, then at the tail of the motorcade was another state trooper, who promptly moved over to the center lane of the interstate, so both lanes were blocked. Continue reading ‘Something you don’t see everyday in Iowa’

Wow, AMAZING!!!

I just saw one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my life! More to come in a few hours…

HELP, opinion needed!

OK, so I have a very important question…

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Which of these colors BEST matches color “GB”?

I need to order scrubs and they have to be the closest to GB as I can get.

Hurry, please let me know!!!

FREE severe weather alerts

So a few months ago I was driving with the kids in some bad weather and I pulled over because it was raining so hard I couldn’t see. We went inside Walgreens to wait for it to clear up when they informed us there was a tornado warning. They locked down the store and I had to wait in the little break room with the kids and the employees. It really sucked. I didn’t have any idea what was going on so I kept texting Kate, who was in class with a computer and internet access, to find out what was going on. As it turns out, the tornado didn’t get too close to us, but I was still a little freaked out knowing there was a tornado warning in effect and I was away from my computer and TV and couldn’t figure out what was going on.

So later that night I signed up for some free severe weather alerts at http://www.weatherusa.net/alerts/. You have the option of having text messages sent to your phone, an email, or both. So far it’s been working well. Now when there is severe weather we are notified immediately.

I have no affiliation with this site other than being a satisfied customer (am I a customer if it is free?). Anyways, just wanted to let you all know in case you wanted to sign up.

Pizza Hut Ultimate Grill Pizza

One word: GROSS!

2008 Pinewood Derby is in the books…

So before I write about what happened tonight, I want you to read my post from last year: Last years Pinewood Derby recap. Go ahead, I’ll wait, just come back when you’re done…
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Sometimes, I hate my job

So anyways, for those of you who don’t know how the printing here at the University of Iowa works, they installed this new system with a series of checks to make sure you really want to print whatever it is you want to print. The way it works is this:

Continue reading ‘Sometimes, I hate my job’

Daily Iowan prints one of the dumbest articles EVER!

So this morning I woke up and read the DI online and there was this article about how T9 (the predicative text messaging software) doesn’t include any swear words, so it  makes it much harder for people to swear in a text message. Really? This constitutes news? Why in the world would anyone write this? And who came up with this idea? It is really stupid.

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