Givinitlaldy's Personal Blog

50 pure dead giveaways you're Scottish

Posted Thu, 06/19/2008 - 16:53 by colin edward

My sister emailed this to me, and I figure it was worth replicating, albeit with some lexicographical edits.

Why is it that some people just don't get the difference between your and you're?

Anyway, this brought back some memories.

Great (?) Britain

Posted Thu, 06/05/2008 - 16:52 by colin edward

I left Scotland when I was 25. Spent 3 years based in England but roving all over Europe. Then I came 3000 miles West to the US. I've often been asked - particularly after Sarah and I split - if I would ever go back to Scotland. After 7.5 years in NH, I just moved 3000 miles further West. What does that tell you?

O-Why-O

Posted Mon, 06/02/2008 - 16:51 by colin edward

I made it.
Home is now officially in Mesa, AZ.
The apartment is really nice. It's also cavernous, especially as I don't have much stuff. But I do have my new bed, my new office desk and chair, and I have HD Cable, 15MB Interweb, my computers and a Flat Screen TV, there's an Irish bar within staggering distance, and plenty of restaurants. Sorted.
Still a little "dazed and confused" but I'm more than happy to be a little out of whack in 95 degrees thank you very much.

Sofa King Close

Posted Tue, 05/27/2008 - 16:50 by colin edward

Almost there. I'm at my final stop before Mesa, Albuquerque NM. It was all perfect until I got to the hotel, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Left OK heading once again towards an ominous black frontal system, but it seems that I40 and that system were on diverging paths, so aside from some rain (I hardly bear to describe it as rain after the friggin deluge of the previous day) nothing much happened.

Rolling Missouri

Posted Mon, 05/26/2008 - 16:49 by colin edward

I'm in Oklahoma City, my third stop.
Man, they like their thunderstorms down here. In St Louis I witnessed one of the most spectacular storms I've ever seen - a veritable fireworks display. It was actually two cells, and they went at it hammer and tongs.
So I'm heading towards OK, and my Garmin Grumpinpuss decides to take me the most bizarre way to I44. I know where Paul McCartney got the inspiration for Long and Winding Road now.

No, I haven't been struck by lightning. Yet!

Posted Sun, 05/25/2008 - 16:48 by colin edward

This is now my sixth attempt at this.
First - I'm retarded, and didn't pack the correct power supply for my laptop.
Second - that's the fifth time in 10 minutes the power grid around here has been hit by lightning, and the Hilton's backup gen's have kicked in.

Cleveland Rocks

Posted Sat, 05/24/2008 - 16:47 by colin edward

Well, actually, it doesn't really - at least what I've experienced so far - which isn't much. It has a nice skyline. I'm reaching here. The roads are shitty, and if it wasn't for my GPS, I'd still be out there cursing and swearing at the really quite bizarre road system.
But I made it. Just shy of 11 hours on the road today. I'm stiff, sore, and vaguely coherent but relieved that arguably the hardest part of the whole shebang is literally behind me.

Going West

Posted Sat, 03/15/2008 - 16:44 by colin edward

Unless you've been truly hibernating this winter, you'll know that I'm not much longer for these parts.
I am currently spending my last winter in NH.
At the end of May, I will pack up my car and drive about 3,000 miles to Mesa Arizona, where my new home will be.
Frankly, I want to go tomorrow.
Now that I've made the decision, I want to follow through on it.
I've been in NH for over 7 years now, and my reason for being here disappeared in 2003. The fact that it's taken me this long is simply testimony to my bone idleness.

Homosexuals are gay

Posted Mon, 06/11/2007 - 16:42 by colin edward

This has been doing the rounds of the internet for a while, but I love it so much I'm going to link to it from here.
The original post.
Just in case it disappears, I'm recreating the post here, but I stress, this is not my material. I only wish it was.

Sad Fact

Posted Mon, 06/11/2007 - 16:41 by colin edward

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
The firearms death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000.
That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our nation's capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington D.C.