Onefinemess

The blog formerly known as Onefinemess.

Maui: day 2

| September 12, 2008

OK so I got the cell card working correctly now (yay! decent internet speeds) AND I got a tiny bit of alcohol (literally – those little tiny, shot-sized things) so I had a bit of D.P.J.D. and Triple-G-Juice (I just made that up…grey goose + grape juice..har har, I know; I’m horrible.) What to say [...]

Maui: day 1

| September 10, 2008

OK, so I’m sitting on the porch of our condo thing in MAUI, drinking ice water and eating a cosco bagel and trying to write a nice blog. The cell card I borrowed from work is claiming it has a 100% full EVDO REV A signal…yet the web is not doing SHIT, except rarely.  So [...]

good things come in…..fours, fives?

| August 19, 2008

It’s a crazy year for the Frenches.  A good kind of crazy. The dice in my head (you know, like Mat from the Wheel of Time series? I’ve literally felt like that for the past month – it was maddening!) finally stopped rolling on Friday.   And it was a pretty good roll. Everything went [...]

more biker bitching

| July 23, 2008

So, headed west on Broadway….one of those silly double-decker-clown-bikes.  Guy is riding in the middle of the right lane.  Right next to the bike lane. Next to the bike lane.  FOR BIKES.  He’s next to it, not in it.  They made a special lane…just for his special ass, and he’s decided he’s too special even [...]

yet another house

| July 15, 2008

so yeah, another offer made…basically the day the place went on the market for the first time. will we get it? well, there is no sane reason why we wouldn’t – we offered exactly what the seller asked! yes, we are THAT tired of hunting.  no, but seriously, it’s worth what they are asking, and [...]

Saturday drive

| July 6, 2008

Yesterday we drove out to Astoria. Because, you know it’s a cute little beach town (or it could be…) and we thought it would be fun to cruise around out there.  Oh, and it was sort of sunny and potentially sunny…but that was a big fat FAIL of course.  No sun for you!  Just crappy [...]

update

| June 27, 2008

So, yeah, haven’t posted much lately.  I don’t have a whole lot of time to write, and what I have had this last week was spent working on a small guide for City of Villains – for the Crab Soldier archetype I mentioned in a previous post. Anyway, if you’re curious about that kind of [...]

“wreck that meatbox!” or “they have a black section and a white section”

| May 17, 2008

So we met some friends of ours (hi Webers), and friends of theirs (hi Jason & Dirk) at the Soapbox, err Saucebook, Saucebox. Whatever. That’s right – we took our baby into a bar. And rocked that shit. Married couples & wobblers can still party. Oh yes we can. OK, so we didn’t party. I [...]

this is what we’re fighting for

| May 12, 2008

That’s not quite phrased right, but I’m still really angry about the whole thing and that’s what I typed originally, so that’s what I’m leaving it at.  I think you’ll figure out what I’m getting at anyway. So we all know about honor killings in Iraq (and other backwards parts of the Arab world) by [...]

second MtG tournament

| May 3, 2008

I went to one at Guardian Games in Portland this afternoon (“sealed” I think is what the format is called – 1 tournament pack + 2 boosters) – man did I suck this time! My first two games were straight out losses, and the couple games I played in between were horrid losses too. And [...]