Month: January 2023

Great Idea #1

As of today (January 24th, 2023) the url hanoing.com is available for purchase. Buy the site and use it to post about annoying things happening in Hanoi. Or, use it to write about things that one can do in Hanoi (as in “let’s go Hanoing!”) Or both.

Great Idea #2

Start a band (fake or real) called Foot Fault. Promote the band as a great opening act for The Bryan Brothers Band. Make flyers and hand them out at Indian Wells. Plan to play in the parking lot an hour before the Bryan Brothers Band starts. Perhaps include special guests. J.J. Wolf on saxophone? Perhaps it could be a cover band of all the songs you hear related to tennis (e.g. Pat Benatar’s Hit Me With Your Best Shot.) Why should there only be one tennis-focused rock band? Tenniscore.

I really like the term weeding. While I was doing research to buy a Cricut for B I came across this use of weeding. These folks use the term to describe culling through library book collections. I kind of hate weeding in the yard, but actually kind of enjoying weeding in general.

Things in my life that currently need weeding:
– books
– records
– tee shirts
– everything in the room above our garage

Today’s earworm:

If you want a better buy, go see Cal
You’re the guy we satisfy, go see Cal
Give a new car to your wife, she will love you all your life
Go see Cal, Go see Cal, Go see Cal

The version that is stuck for me starts “If you wanna buy a car go see Cal…” Oddly, that basic version doesn’t appear here.

(AKA we learn until we die)

Old Beginnings:
– tennis
– swimming
– speaking Spanish
– cooking & baking

New Beginnings:
– juggling
– skateboarding
– playing D&D
– video game(s)
– using Garageband, music, instruments
– disc golf
– drumming
– drawing

Ended Beginnings:
– beer making

Never Beginnings:
– running
– flying

The whole Neil Diamond Sweet Caroline thing is a terrible situation.

Add to the list of “Things I Am Working On.” Quote from a book I was recently gifted by B:

I asked myself a final question: “Then what do you really want?” The answer was quite unexpected. What I really wanted, I realized, was to overcome the nervousness that was preventing me from playing my best and enjoying myself. I wanted to overcome the inner obstacle that had plagued me for so much of my life. I wanted to win the inner game.

W. Timothy Gallwey

Shame on you for getting that damn Oingo Boingo song stuck in my head (again.)

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⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩
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How many people that play have no idea that these are keyboard characters? Do people create their own to fool friends when they don’t do well? Cheater Cheater Pumpkin Eater?

Billy Idol
Eddie Grant
The guy who sang Puttin’ on the Ritz

Jason Kottke pointed to this, all of which I enjoyed. For various reasons, this is the pull-quote for me:

It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead. One’s thoughts must be directed to the future, and to things about which there is something to be done.

from How to Grow Old by Bertrand Russell

Note: I may have used “pull-quote” incorrectly.
Question: wasn’t Stumbled Upon a site of yore that helped to direct people to interestingness?

Today, JG reminded me about Miller’s Outpost.

Will bread bakers get this joke?
FUCK THE POOLISH!

Other Great Ideas:
Spooky Car Wash
A Changeovers tasting menu

Ends up that Spooky Car Wash has already been done. If you google it, you will see that this “brilliant idea” has already happened. And will continue to happen. Poorly & well.

Changeovers is a tennis-based restaurant concept. Cheap decent food that can be purchased to eat before, during, or after a match. B has a lot of quality ideas of what to serve. For example: hard boiled egg (only $1!) Seems like most tennis clubs/locations have a snack bar, geared primarily towards feeding kids in the summer. Slushies. Drumsticks. Hot dogs. Grilled Cheese. Abba-zaba. What about the adults? WHAT ABOUT THE ADULTS!!!