I just saw the most perfect image of distilled Tysons Corner ever on the way home. When I pulled up to the light at route 7 I noticed a nice BMW next to me. It was driven by a girl far too young to afford such a car. Just when I was starting to think about how was unfair that I was driving in a shitty subaru with a broken front tie-rod boot, the girl pulled a small dog from her lap and snuggled it to her face… too perfect.
2011: The Year in Schus
Life, TripsSometimes 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.
Selling things on ETSY
Art, ProjectsI 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
Thought Nugget
Randomness
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.
Finally working on something…
Art, Projects
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.
Box Office Contest
Projects, websites
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/