I’ve been reading a lot of Metal Sludge lately… mostly because I’ve been on a whole rock/metal/whatever kick.
Anyhow, that’s not why I’m posting this. I’m posting this to tell you that Tom Morello from Audioslave (formerly with Rage Against The Machine) is super funny! Check out the 20 Questions with Tom Morello interview and see what I’m talking about, you cracker-ass cracker! (That’ll be funnier after you read the interview)
I bought enough sod at Lowes to cover my backyard and they told me that the delievery folks would call yesterday telling me the approximate time they would get here.
Lies, lies, lies.
I got a call at about 10:30AM from the delievery guy saying that he would be at my place in about an hour.
Lies, lies, lies.
At around 12:15PM he gets here and drops the pallet of sod in my driveway.
Laying down the sod itself didn’t take too long… just shy of 3 hours, actually. And just like when I layed down the topsoil, it started to rain as soon as I was laying the last roll of sod. I guess that was good, since I still had to fertilize the sod after laying it anyhow, and I’m hoping that the rain helped jump-start it’s mojo.
So again I headed in, took some Ibuprofen, hit the shower, and then I had to work from home a little more.
And I’m still exhausted. That’s tough work!
So I did a lot of running around yesterday, looking for the cheapest topsoil I could find to cover my back yard with before the sod I ordered comes in on Friday. I finally got 7 yards of topsoil delivered today (same day service: not too shabby). The problem is that I’m in Washington state, and if I didn’t get it laid out fast I’d have nothing but a huge mud puddle in my driveway since that’s the only place they could deliver it to since we have no rear access to our back yard.
So yeah… 6 and a half hours later I finished shoveling all 7 yards into thew new wheelbarrow I bought and leveled it out in the back yard. Talk about some painful, back-breaking shit! I’m tired as hell. For those of you who can’t picture how much 7 yards of dirt is, imagine the driveway of a normal 2-car garage and picture a 5-foot high pile of dirt that stretches all the way across the cement. That’s what I moved from the front to the back. And sure enough, as soon as I was done it started to rain.
I headed in, took some Ibuprofen, hit the shower, and then I had to work from home for a bit. I was exhausted.
David Sedaris is a really funny writer, and one of my favorite stories that he has written is “You Can’t Kill The Rooster“. I highly recommend reading it, and I also recommend that you lather, rinse, and repeat when shampooing. That is all.
Kimberly and I just got back from seeing Eddie Izzard at The Moore performing on his new tour: Sexie.
Even though we had nose-bleed seats and there was no air conditioning, let me just say that Eddie is far and away one of the funniest people I have ever seen in concert, and I would gladly pay to see him again. His bits on the Puritans & screaming, dentists, and guide dogs had Kimberly and I cracking up all the way home.
Cracking up until a bird hit the windshield of my new car at about 65 MPH. Holy, crap that scared us! Good thing there was a windshield in the way, however, because otherwise Kimberly and the bird would have physically melded since the spot that it left was vectored right in on her head! We found the humor in the situation a little bit later, since when the bird hit the song “You Dropped a Bomb on Me” was playing at the time on the radio, and the bird hit just as one of the bomb sounds was playing.
Anyhow, Eddie was freakin’ hilarious and I can’t wait until he comes back to Seattle. Only next time I’m camping out at Ticketmaster to get better seats. If he hasn’t hit a city near you yet, run, don’t walk, to buy tickets to his show!