summer finds July 19, 2009

‘Tis the season for garage sales!  Every Thursday through Saturday they are everywhere.  Some people are getting rid of their things to get ready for a move, and some are trying to make some money in these hard times.  There are some really good things out there, and some cannot be found anywhere else.  I’ve found some full spools of ribbon for $0.10, a pair of cute ceramic peacocks, and some small mirrors of different shapes – exactly what I was looking for.  I was specifically looking for small framed mirrors to repaint, as decoration for my white walls.  This would be in lieu of painting directly on the walls again.  (I already had to take one vacation day to repaint the dining room walls before moving out of the old apartment!)  Here are some picts!

a peacock pair

hello!

 

The frames of all these mirrors were brown.  The one with the tree had a gold frame. 

xacto knives are great!

this mirror is sitting on my piano

Help El Guepardo Loco, Kyle November 27, 2008

I’m starting to think that my friend, Kyle, has unlocked some way of slowing down time just for himself.  In addition to just finishing up his PhD, Kyle and his friend are also putting the finishing touches on a sci-fi book about how to defeat your clone.  You’ll see it on the bookstore shelves next year. 

I spoke with Kyle today, but instead of the regular weekly update, he surprised me with yet another opportunity for sprucing up his curriculum vitae.  By the time he has to use one again, they will think that half his claims are really lies. Then they will just google him and find out that indeed, he is a creative, intelligent and all around interesting person.

Although I had never seen one, there are some Dos Equis beer commercials out there. (Links from You Tube are below.)  These commercials feature “the most interesting man in the world,” and are fairly funny, depending on your preferred type of humor.  Well, Dos Equis decided that it would be a nice marketing ploy to take applications for an assistant to the most interesting man in the world, and incorporate him/her in new commercials.  Cool, huh? They got about 10,000 (ten thousand.  TEN THOUSAND!) applicants, and Kyle made it to the top 25!!!   Yes, that is the top quarter of a percent of all those people.  To get to the top ten, the 25 had to submit a video.  Fastforward some time, and yay!  Kyle made the top ten.

This is where you come in. All you need to do, every day until Dec. 7, is get on the Dos Equis website, and vote for Kyle.  They only allow one vote a day, so just do it.  Please. I’m making it as easy as possible for you.  There’s a link to the right.  It will ask you for your birthday to enter, and then take you right to the finalist page.  Click on El Guepardo Loco, and then click on vote! Simple!

 

To the people in California:  Vote for Kyle!!!  He is now a resident of your lovely state, and a UC Berkeley grad.

To the people in Michigan:  Vote for Kyle!!!   Born and raised a Michigan man.

To my family, all ten million cousins especially:  Vote for Kyle!!!  I’m asking nicely!

To any SHS people:  Vote for Kyle!!!  Then when you see him in the commercials, you can say, “I know that guy!”

To every other lovely person:  Vote for Kyle!!!  You obviously took the time to read this, so why not spend a measly 30 seconds every day until Dec. 7th, and see the results of your hard work… on the television!  How cool would that be?

 

 

EXTRA LINKS…

Most interesting man commercial intro

Most interesting man on mixed nuts

Kyle’s Video Testimonial

 

Hopefully you have been sufficiently persuaded to participate in getting El Guepardo Loco a spot on the telly.  So what are you waiting for?  Clink on the link to the right already!

 

Thanks, and have a nice day!