January
24
2012
Sometimes I forget what I’ve done last week, so it’s not a surprise that at the end of the year I would sit there on New Years Eve and think “What have I done this year?” According to my Picasa gallery, a lot.
The biggest thing I did this year was buying a house. We bought a house in Fairfax in January 2011. I really love it, but having a mortgage really makes you grow up fast. The house was already renovated when we moved in, so there wasn’t many big house projects to take care of. So I built a bar instead.
There were concerts and birthdays and trips to NYC/Georgia/Tampa/Niagara Falls, We hosted Easter and Thanksgiving at our house, I grew a beard, another Cardboard boat race, 2 weddings, and we ran our first adventure race (the warrior dash).
It was a pretty great year in the Schumaker’s life, But without our friends and family there to share in our adventures it wouldn’t have been as fun.
I give it 5 Schu’s.
January
11
2012
I finally got around to actually selling something on ETSY. I’ve been meaning to do it ever since I made my first skull door knocker in 2008. But I never got around to it. It’s one of those things that once you do it you think, what took me so long to do this? It’s really easy, they take care of everything but shipping.
I got the posters printed on winkflash.com. I’ve used them for a bunch of other printing projects and I’m happy with them like always. If you get on their mailing list they have great coupons for products.
I’m going to finally get around to putting some skull door knockers on there too. Hopefully I can kick the procrastination in 2012
-Mark
January
04
2012
You should really know the strength of the toilet you’re sitting on before executing the “Courtesy Flush” maneuver. It’s a pretty big courtesy to shower your undercarriage with shit filled water just so that the other person doesn’t have to smell your poop for 5 minutes.
December
07
2011
I got inspired tonight or maybe I just got bored and decided that if I was going to sit around and watch old episodes of ‘Always Sunny’ I should be doing something productive… So I made this.
December
05
2011
I’ve been in a ‘Box Office Prediction’ contest at work for several years and I’ve always found it interesting that there’s not really a site out there that will run this kind of thing for you. So I hooked up a combination of php pages with a mysql database and a php script that will pull the daily results from boxofficemojo. It’s clearly a rickety system and I haven’t worked out all the kinks, some movies don’t show up on the daily results, but those ones probably wont make the top 10 anyway.
http://www.boxoffice.swalrus.org/
October
11
2011
I was a runnin.
It was pretty awesome. But having turned 30 and not worked out for about… ever, the actual running parts were really really hard for me. But the obstacles were a great way to break up the running. Also I realize that my running fool sister will be laughing at me for struggling to finish a 5k race in under an hour. Because they didn’t get the ABC license for the event and there was no beer for sale, the promoters are giving everyone free entry into next years race. So we’ll be seeing everyone down there on Sept 29th 2012!
