August 20, 2007
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Toby dropped my applications for a couple of building permits off at the village hall today. See, I need one permit to replace the shingles and another to replace the siding. I think that is a bit crazy, but its not like they are going to charge me $75 for them; I figured it would probably be like $15 for each of them which is really nothing. Well, as it turns out, the Village of Romeoville is in the business of strong arming their residents, or so it seems. That's right, the total for the building permits is $7fucking5! Now keep in mind I'm not building a brand new garage, shit, I'm not even rebuilding this existing garage. To make matters even more fucking stupid and crazy, technically, they can turn me down for BOTH permits. Although I do not find that likely, it would be funny if they did seeing as they are the ones that are making me fix my garage. Could you imagine though if they did? On one hand, I would be in trouble for NOT fixing it, yet if I go ahead and fix it, I could be in trouble. Oh well, I'm sure it won't be a problem, although it would make for a great post if it turns out to be an issue.
I just had an erection that lasted 4 hours or longer.
A couple of things I forgot to write about over the weekend. I found out a guy that I play cards with has the exact same birthday as Mark and I, October 7, 1975. Pretty wild, huh? I mean how unusual to know 2 people born on the exact same day as me. Ok, so one of them is my twin brother, which really makes the story so much less amazing. Come to think of it, just ignore this whole damn story.
Will somebody please turn of the giant hose that has been spraying the whole damn Chicagoland area with nearly constant rain for the past damn week. Ok, so maybe it has not been constant and it has not been for an entire week, but it just seems like its been raining a lot this month. And what is even worse is that its supposed to rain pretty much every day this week. Now how the hell is my garage supposed to be fixed if it never stops raining? With the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if the Village has some sort of working in the rain tax or maybe a rain delay permit.
Its now 4 hours, 3 minutes and 48 seconds. Or longer.
Comments (2)
This post is hilarious. I'm listening to "Tiny Dancer" on your site, and I love it.
A four-hour erection at your age is prodigious. I once had an erection that lasted four years. It was called high school.
I'm a straight old fart, as you probably figured out, if you looked at my Xanga site, but I'm a gay ally precisely because I'm a Catholic Christian. I don't see how I could claim to be a Christian if I wasn't a gay ally, an African American ally, an ally of the elderly (although I'm sort of elderly myself), an ally of women's rights (two daughters and a granddaughter? My daughters would totally emasculate me, if I weren't. But I freely choose to be because I think it's the right thing.) The so-called "Christians" have a bad name for being homophobic. I think you can't be homophobic and Christian. That's just me.
Just so you know, I went to high school with Richard Simmons, and I never thought "homosexual" in reference to him. That's how naive I was. My daughters claim to be able to gaydar scope a gay person across a crowded room. And they're both gay allies, too. Big time.
The music on your site is really good. I'm listening to Don McLean right now. I listen to the radio all the time, but now I listen to NPR. I'm totally out of touch with contemporary music, except as NPR plays it. I love "American Pie" and "Start Me Up," which I just switched to. I know how to put pictures and videos on Xanga, but how do you put music?
Take care.
Ed
I've read a lot of your blog, and it's funny, clever, and very interesting.
I noticed you don't seem to embed the You Tube videos. It's very easy to do that. You click on "edit html" on the new entry page. You copy the stuff next to the video on the You Tube site and paste it at the end of what appears on the screen when you click edit html right before the symbol that says
. That's all you do. You have to click edit html again, and the video will appear on your blog page. I tried to give you a sample here, but it ended up posting the video and not the html. It's really easy to do, though. Of course, maybe you already knew this and don't like to embed the video.