All About Me Thursday Thirteen ...

A couple of times a year I decide to play Thursday 13.  Not officially or anything really.  It just happens to be Thursday and I don’t really have anything, so I play without telling anyone who’s in charge of Thursday 13.  Well, maybe I would if I actually knew who was in charge.

Anyway, 13 things about me that you probably don’t really care about….


1. Even though these things are kinda gross, I actually like them quite a bit…


2. Whenever I’m watching one of my favorite teams play any sporting event, I will turn the game off with a minute or so left if they are going to lose.  I can acknowledge that my team lost, and even that the other team is better, but I will not actually watch my team lose.

3. A lot of times when people post something serious on Facebook, Twitter or their blogs, I will respond with a not-so-serious comment.  Not because I’m trying to be a smartass, but because I’m trying to make them smile or lighten the mood a bit.  I think it comes across more as smartass though.

4. I’ve mentioned this before a long time ago, but I will NOT share a bar of soap with anyone.  You’re welcome to use my shower, but you’ll need to bring your own bar of soap please.  Or, you can use the bar that’s in there, and I’ll just open a new one.  That’s fine too.

5. A little more than a week into lent and I’m finding that the hardest part is the soft drinks.  The junk food and even alcohol haven’t been any big deal to give up.  But, the soft drinks! Oh man. I haven’t been able to completely go without.  I have had to take a few hits.  I admit it.  But, I think I’m weeding it out.  I just should have started that process before lent.

6. I think mayonnaise is the most disgusting substance on Earth.  It’s really gross and I can’t understand how anyone can smother that crap all over their burgers and sandwiches.

7. I love spicy foods, but they don’t love me.  About the time I turned 40, I suddenly couldn’t handle spicy foods anymore.  Something I consider totally unfair.

8. When I was a kid I wanted to be either a sportswriter or a lawyer when I grew up.  I’m neither.   Although, I guess I could start a sports blog and call myself a sportswriter if I wanted to.  Anyway, I do still think it would be cool to be a sportswriter and be assigned to cover some of the more obscure and lesser known sports.   Like maybe do an expose on the Russian Women’s Curling team….


Or just a story on Ludmila Privivkova…


9. I love to drive.  I can just hop in the car and drive all over the place.  It relaxes me and I do my best thinking while driving.  Commuting is NOT driving though.  Commuting is something you’re required to do to get someplace.  Usually in heavy traffic.  That makes it much less fun.

10. I have days where I’m really depressed and everybody and everything annoys me.  I read blogs, twitter and Facebook and just think “blah, blah, blah.”  I only talk to anyone if I have to and even then I’m thinking “Go the fuck away!”  I hate these days.  I think maybe if I had a dog these days would be fewer and further between.  Or if I was rich. But, I can’t have a dog in this apt. and I haven’t won the lottery yet.  Both of these things piss me off even more.

11. I rarely send friend requests on Facebook.  If I see someone on there from the bloggerhood, I just assume that if they wanted me on their friend’s list, they would have sent a friend request.  That’s probably silly, but I hate to force someone to add me out of some sense of obligation or worse, for them to just ignore me. 

12. I don’t have that same problem on Twitter because it’s very different.  There’s really nothing personal on your profile or anything.  But, if I do start following someone (not necessarily another blogger, just someone I think is cool, clever, funny or interesting) and they don’t follow me back, I do tend to take it personally and unfollow them.

13. My butt itches.


Okay, there you go. Thirteen totally fascinating things about me.

Old Pics, JLH, Itching and HST ...

So, the other day I posted about my fourth cousin getting in touch with us and finding out more about my family tree. Well, she emailed us a picture of my great great uncle Thomas Loy from sometime in the late 1800's. Check it out ....


(clickr for biggr in Flickr)

The people she got the pic from said that they believed he is wearing his Irish Guards uniform in this pic. But, some think it might be a Scottish Regimental uniform too. I have no idea. Do you?

Anyway, it's a cool pic.

Also, she sent us a couple of stuff from when my great great grandfather and great great uncle made the local paper The Northern Echo (which is still in bidness today) ...

"1895 Thomas Loy, army reserve man fined 15 sh or 10 days jail for being drunk & riotous in Stockton st mbro."

"1876 oct 31 Disgraceful kicking case in Mbro. George Loy
given 1 months hard labour for bodily harm, repeatedly kicking another man in Newport rd Mbro"

How freaking cool is that? They were a rambunctious bunch, weren't they? “Mbro” is Middlesbrough, England.

Also, you might notice that this is George’s brother Thomas, no his father Thomas. One of the problems we’ve been running into is that they weren’t all that creative when it came to naming kids back in the day. They basically all used the same names. People tended to name the first daughter the same name as the mother. Then the rest would be the father’s or mother’s sisters. The son’s would get the father or mother’s brothers names. So there are bunches of Peter’s, Thomas’s, Patrick’s, George’s etc etc.

I swear, I would have killed for a Shiloh Moon-Unit Apple Dweezle Loy, just so there would be ONE that I could keep track of easier.

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Jay Leno has finished his tenure as host of the tonight show. I like Leno alright, but have always been more of a David Letterman fan. When I was growing up my mother would let me stay up long enough to see Johnny Carson's monologue because I was a HUGE fan of his. But, when Leno took over I didn't like some of the changes he made and, well, he just wasn't Johnny.

But, he totally redeemed himself for anything he did wrong over the years right here at the end by having Jennifer Love Hewitt on and reminding her of her promise to show him how good she was at doing push-ups.


Well, played Jay. Well played.

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Okay, so I thought I would bring this up cause I thought it was a little weird.

Yesterday, when I was, uh .. sitting on my throne doing my morning business, I began to itch, you know, down there. Now, don't try to claim that you have never had bung hole itch before, so stop with the "ewwwwwwwwwww" looks. Anyway, we all know that when that happens, you have to deal with it.

But, here's the weird part. My belly button also started itching at the same time.

Do you think there's a connection between the two itches? It seems a bit odd, but it could be possible.

Has this ever happened to you?

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Now, I know that last segment made some of you uncomfortable. But, as I have often said, great artists make their audiences uncomfortable sometimes.

Besides, even blogger says I'm funny. This was my word verification when I commented on Tink's blog yesterday ...


And, yes, my comment was funny too.

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Friday is the fourth anniversary of Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide.


To commemorate this day I will be getting totally fucked up on a crazy-ass cocktail of drugs and attempting write my next blog post Tweeting HST quotes throughout the day tomorrow. I can tell how excited you are about that.