Why couldn't this weekend be duplicated over here in VT? I'll give you one example: On Winnipesaukee there are actually people who still drink the lake water straight from their faucet. Here in Vermont if you drink water out of ANY faucet, never mind one hooked directly to an inland body of water, you'll be feeling the wrath of Montezuma's Yankee cousin.
The second bit of evidence is less objective...I found a photo of a car that I have told many stories about. I officially own half of this vehicle and some day I might track it down and bring it over here. It was an important part of my life for a few months and during one of my "employment-challenged" periods it provided me with mobility that I may otherwise have been denied (Thanks to some crackheads that stole my pickup truck...a story for another time and place.)
;)
This car upset people approximately 2 hours after my friend Stefan and I bought it. On the day I took this photo we were running it at an ice race put on by a BMW club where it was causing no amount of stress due to its obvious non-Aryan pedigree. I imagine it continues to upset either Stefan's neighbors or parents or someone somewhere who lives next to wherever he has it parked. This car represents a fun, simple, very New Hampshire time of my life. So to everyone who I ever talked to about this car...here you go. See, it did exist after all.
XOXOXO
Cris
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New favorite show.
It's like Arrested Development but darker (everyone is a bad guy,) and they swear on it.
I need:
-A line of code that opens links in new windows AND works for Safari.
Dog is back. No idea if he made any friends during his overnight stay.
I was in Dulles the other day and bought a soda. I was suckered in by its label and figured what was inside couldn't live up to its packaging. I was wrong. It was awesome. I had the diet...ask for it by name.
Okay, so dog is back, it's hot out, and another week is gone. Great. And I didn't get to the site update I promissed. BUT...I will say that when I do update it will be with a blast from the past. Something about gopher reports, silly string, and frozen turkeys.
XO
Cris
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Today reminds me of an email exchange I had about a year and a half ago.
Me: Is it hot in here?
Vanessa: No, it just sucks.
XOXOXO
Cris
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Wednesday morning this guy goes under the knife..."the unkindest cut of all" as it were...
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It's going to be a Hell ride for him and us. Per a conversation with Aaron Draplin, we'll be taking the "leftovers" home with us. Don't worry kiddo, it's like you'll still have your nuts, they just won't be getting in the way any more.
In other news I got a flat tire today, THEN ran over some glass, THEN had a black cat cross in front of the car...some kind of reverse fortune vortex happening.
Updates to the rest of the site soon, like in a day, seriously.
XOXOXO
Cris
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You hear people often say "I've always wanted one of those..." Well, there are a few things I have always wanted...REALLY always wanted, and I have slowly been able to check each of them off my list. One of those things, a French Bulldog, was on the list a short while ( a little over two years) and still another, a Yamaha Chappy, was on the list for something like seven years before I got my hands on one. But about a month ago the one item...the actual first item ever...that I have searched for the longest I was FINALLY able to track down: A raincoat.
For over 20 years I have been searching for a Sea Gear raincoat. When I was a kid I first saw the Sea Gear brand in boat magazines and in stores in Newport, RI. The logo was tight, the stuff looked insane, yet I, as a child, had no real need for a $200.00 raincoat. I vowed back then to get me some Sea Gear by hook, crook, or otherwise, somehow, someway...but unfortunately as the years went by, Sea Gear disappeared from the scene, possibly absorbed into the Helly Hansen machine, perhaps just simply going out of business, I've never been able to find out.
Anyway, after years of searching and waiting one of those jackets popped up on eBay in June and I bought it for the princely sum of like $9.09 or something. Of course it came from Newport (which is also where a lot of Chappys ended up) and when I got it it was everything I ever dreamed it would be and more. I'll post pics of it at a later date so you can see what 200 1982 dollars got you inre: rain wear, but for now I'll show you the next thing on my list: A car.
;)
This is actually one of a few cars on my list. Now that I've checked those other things (sorry Rivet, you're right, you are not a "thing") I am moving on some bigger game. This car was built by a guy named Milt Marion. The photo shows it at Indy in 1947 where it was for sale. It's a street-legal car that looks not unlike the two-man Indy cars of the 30s, except much cleaner and leaner and meaner. It's got an Offenhauser engine of some sort under the hood and at the time the photo was taken it was registered in New York. I am going to start looking for this car today or tomorrow or the next day. Everything about it is so right...too right...for it not to still be around somewhere. Car, I shall find you. Colt, any of your relatives have this thing sitting in a barn back home?
And if you've ever heard someone wax on about how it's the journey or the search that's important...screw those people. My life is better thanks to my Chappy, my dog, and my raincoat and it's better because I'm not sitting here obsessing about trying to find those things anymore. Boxes are there to be checked off, not left empty.
Believe it, son.
XOXOXO
Cris
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Okay, so after almost 11 months of not updating this site I finally sat down and got going on it. Not everything is up and running yet. There are a few sections I want to add and a few things I need to tweak. I will try and update this every day (for my own sake and entertainment, not yours.)
Yes, it is visually ugly on purpose. I went the clean, spare route for over a year and figured it was time to change it up (like anyone's reading this...)
I may even backdate a few entries, diary-style.
Whatever you do, don't scroll right...there's nothing but a bunch of blog garbage there that I don't know how to strip out yet.
XOXOXO
Cris
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Ali and our nephew, Sonny. This was his camera face for a while.
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Today is Friday.
"Today is Friday." in bold.
Today is Friday!
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