Weekend!

Jaybird

Jaybird is Birdmojo on Xbox Live and Jaybirdmojo on Playstation's network. He's been playing consoles since the Atari 2600 and it was Zork that taught him how to touch-type. If you've got a song for Wednesday, a commercial for Saturday, a recommendation for Tuesday, an essay for Monday, or, heck, just a handful a questions, fire off an email to AskJaybird-at-gmail.com

Related Post Roulette

10 Responses

  1. Maribou says:

    I can always have my nap on the new deck if I need to. Feel like by that point I could sleep through the last of the construction happening around me :D.

    Love you honeybear, I’ll be home soon.Report

  2. Mike Dwyer says:

    Absolutely love this:

    “I looked up at the sky and saw the sky my ancestors saw: the milky way in all its glory. Constellations not merely made up of a handful of points of light, but made up of thousands of stars that added contours and depth to brighter points and gave a texture that let you say “holy cow… you can see why they said that that was a great bear”.

    As for me, October is in full swing, so my wife has my weekends fully scheduled. Basically, you could use our activities as the first several chapters in the next edition of Stuff White People Like. Trips to quaint little farms where they sell over-priced everything but you tell yourself it’s okay because the mulled cider was SO GOOD. Chili suppers. High school football games. Nevermind that we have our own perfectly good farm that needs attention and chili at home is even better. It’s Fall…it’s time to be social.

    As a side note, I broke the seal on the coat closet this week. I only needed a windbreaker, but it was a chance to say hello to my friends. I caressed each of my fleece jackets and said, “Soon, my friends…very soon.” Winter Jacket is still in hybernation, but my fall friends are itching to see the light of day. Two weeks max and they will be in full rotation.Report

  3. Mike Dwyer says:

    Absolutely love this:

    “I looked up at the sky and saw the sky my ancestors saw: the milky way in all its glory. Constellations not merely made up of a handful of points of light, but made up of thousands of stars that added contours and depth to brighter points and gave a texture that let you say “holy cow… you can see why they said that that was a great bear”.

    As for me, October is in full swing, so my wife has my weekends fully scheduled. Basically, you could use our activities as the first several chapters in the next edition of Stuff White People Like. Trips to quaint little farms where they sell over-priced everything but you tell yourself it’s okay because the mulled cider was SO GOOD. Chili suppers. High school football games. Nevermind that we have our own perfectly good farm that needs attention and chili at home is even better. It’s Fall…it’s time to be social.

    As a side note, I broke the seal on the coat closet this week. I only needed a windbreaker, but it was a chance to say hello to my friends. I caressed each of my fleece jackets and said, “Soon, my friends…very soon.” Winter Jacket is still in hybernation, but my fall friends are itching to see the light of day. Two weeks max and they will be in full rotation.Report

  4. Michael Cain says:

    Sitting at my desk in my office this morning and suddenly there’s a huge amount of pounding and thumping up on the roof. Much more than the squirrels usually make up there. The materials for the new roof are here! Sometime next week, I assume, a crew will show up and do the work. The contractor seems to think that at this time of year they can bring in a big enough crew to do it all in one day.

    The 17-year-old Tibetan Spaniel is sleeping through all of this morning’s noise.Report

  5. Chris says:

    This weekend resting, but last weekend I went to northwestern Arkansas for five days (well, two mostly driving). Fort Smith is awesome for an evening, and there’s a great used bookstore just off campus in Fayetville, and there are a couple interesting (and beautiful) Civil War battle sites, but let me tell you about the art museum in Bentonville, because you should all go at some point. I know what you’re thinking: “An art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas?! I’m skeptical.” I was too, but it is the home of the Waltons (yes, those Waltons), and as pretty much the richest family on the planet, they have put together a collection of incredible (almost exclusively, save a Picasso and a few other pieces) American art in an exceptionally beautiful space (the trails around the museum are wonderful) called Crystal Bridges. Some examples:

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/07/24/arts/24KUNIYOSHI/24KUNIYOSHI-master1050.jpg

    http://media.arkansasonline.com/img/photos/2010/05/26/Uttech_Enassamishhinjijweian_6x6_300ppi_t635.jpg?673328f4bb9263a287d110865e74e7950bdf1585

    http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200911/07/59/a0092659_14392674.jpg (I bought a print of this.)

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/04/35/4e/04354e590038baef4a548a42214fbb84.jpg

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/12/19/arts/19artsbeat-warhol2/19artsbeat-warhol2-blog480.jpg

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/46/37/aa/4637aa137aa3995208a52b30969fed7b.jpg

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/d9/37/06/d93706031bf09dd26c029976643f0f40.jpg (I love this one for some reason.)Report

  6. Miss Mary says:

    I’m convinced. I will be heading to Canada to go camping this summer or next depending on Surro Baby. I have to see those stars.

    This weekend Junior and I will be doing our annual visit with University of Oregon for their Kindergarten Study. He will also be coming to job #2 with me, as per the usual. Then we will be hitting a third store in yet another attempt to find him a Halloween costume. The first two stores we went to only had girl costumes???

    My blood work came back with near perfect results. I’m on track for the embryo transfer in November. I will just die if all of this stabbing myself with needles is for nothing.Report

  7. dragonfrog says:

    The plan had been to go to Saskatoon for my dad’s birthday, but the weather nixed that for us – we got 60 km out of town (took an hour), concluded it would be madness to try for Saskatoon, and turned back. In that brief and stressful drive we saw at least two semis and maybe eight or ten personal vehicles in the ditch, one wrecked car, and a city bus turned fully sideways across the road.

    So, weekend plans are now TBD, probably along the lines of laundry and such that we had been planning to neglect.Report