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Written by Heretic
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 03:32 |
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Preface: During college my buddy Sam and I would play catch because we like being outdoors while getting a minimal amount of exercise. While playing the aforementioned catch we came up with this scenario. While playing catch we often talk about our efforts to ruin the grass on which we stand while playing catch. Our efforts to this point have been unsuccessful. To hasten our destruction of the environment Sam said we should just get a shovel and dig up the grass to expose the dirt and eventual mud hole. I replied that that dirt could be the start of our latest venture, The Dirt Exchange.
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Last Updated on Monday, 15 June 2009 02:23 |
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Written by Heretic
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Friday, 05 June 2009 03:13 |
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When we bought our house two years ago it came with a really nice fence around our backyard and had a small fivish foot area of mulch next to the wall of the house. This mulchy area contained numerous ornaments and two bushes. We decided that since the mulch looked like hell and the ornaments were easily removed we would repurpose that area for a garden. I raked most of the mulch out and put down a layer of nice, dirty soil. But, like Carl Winslow in Die Hard something happened that I wasn't expecting. We planted carrots, tomatoes, peas, onions, radishes, some viny thingys, and some kind of peppers. Now, mind you, everything was planted in a nice orderly fashion so that we would know what was growing where.
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Last Updated on Monday, 15 June 2009 02:21 |
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Monking the Grass part Deux |
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Written by Heretic
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 15:34 |
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Note: to get the full back story for this article you should read this one first. So last night after writing my fool proof theory down about why the grass at SJU sucks I went to bed and had a dream. The dream provides another, yet equally plausible, theory as to why the grass at SJU is bad. One of my favorite stories about my Alma Mater takes place in the early 1900s not long after the College of Saint Benedict was established. You see, SJU has been around since 1857 (at least that's what my shirt says) and the nuns at CSB didn't get started until sometime around 1910.
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Last Updated on Monday, 15 June 2009 02:22 |
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Written by Heretic
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 01:37 |
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The house I bought just over two years ago was built just over fifty years ago. If there's any advice I can give to you potential home buyers out there is that you shouldn't buy an old house. It's not that they need repairs often (they do), or that they leak heat/cold air like a siv (they do), it's not that they have wiring that has no ground (it doesn't), it's that they are laid out rather poorly.
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Last Updated on Monday, 15 June 2009 02:21 |
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Written by Heretic
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 02:47 |
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The university I attended did not want for anything. St. John's University is in a remote location in Minnesota, so remote that they have their own town - Collegeville. It's an all boys school (I know), but SJU is so awesome that some nuns decided to open a nunery just a few miles down the road and start a college for all girls (College of St. Benedict) so that the boys didn't get lonely. Now the students are bussed between the two for classes at each campus so the classrooms are mixed genders (unless you go into computer science).
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Last Updated on Monday, 15 June 2009 02:22 |
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