The Crippler Launches a Blog

So, I have a blog, started like two weeks ago, and this is post number 1. This should give one some indication of how exciting life is in the "banana belt" of North Dakota. Why is it called the Banana Belt? I don't know. I think it has something to do with our relatively milder climates than the rest of the state (picture the movie "Fargo"). That being said, we still get to minus 20 degrees and we already had 2 feet of snow fall and the city prepares for snow to fall by the end of this month. This to me does not seem warm. This makes me wonder how much worse, really, can Minot, Grand Forks and Fargo be?

In the last two weeks, the most exciting thing to happen to me is, wait for it...I got two cats. I'm like a mommy now. Albeit one who doesn't have to pay too much attention. Because I adopted the pair, they already had names. Those names are Dixie and Bun. Fortunately, Dixie is a girl name and it's for a girl cat. Unfortunately, Bun is a boy and who names something Bun? I have put some thought into why I would possibly choose those names, and what they can mean to me (I know, I have too much time on my hands). Dixie is the name of the hooker in Lethal Weapon. I like Leathal Weapon, so why not name my cat after a minor character? Bun, or rather, Mr. Bun is the name of Calvin's (of Calvin and Hobbes comics - which by the way, have recently come out in hardcover format in a complete set and if anyone wants to spend hundreds of dollars on me, I'd love to own them) friend, Susie's stuffed bunny. That one is quite a stretch, even for me, but look at what I have to work with. Anyway, Dixie and Bun are your typical bastard cats who get into a fair amount of trouble, but they also purr a lot and so that's cute.

If we really want to talk about how pathetically unexciting my life is, we could discuss my weekends. Like how last weekend's most exciting moment was dining at the Cracker Barrel a hundred miles away in Bismarck before going to see a truly obnoxious movie (Flightplan, aka, saved-only-by-the-fact-that-peter-sarsgaard-was-in-it). And this weekend, where I went to play Sega at a co-workers house (which, actually, is pretty damn cool).

This Sunday's fun includes watching the World Series (I have a lot of money riding on these games), cleaning, and watching movies from Netflix. If anyone is on Netflix, please let me know, I'd like more friends on my list, which so far, includes Nate.

Oh, and in the meantime, I go to this job where I get published regularly. So, there's that.