I'm here. I woke up in Seoul. And I actually do feel kind of upside down, it's weird.
Tom December 29, 2007 11:19am
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I'm here. I woke up in Seoul. And I actually do feel kind of upside down, it's weird.
Tom December 29, 2007 11:19am
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I should mention that I'm here because of The Debutante Hour East Asian Tour. It's not like I just woke up and said, Let's see what's going on a million miles away.
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I'm so tired and confused. I'm ahnding the computer back to susan.
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The first thing I tried to do in Japan was get coffee and I failed. Japan was polite in telling me I failed, but still, I'm am withoutcoffee.
Tom 4:24pm??
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I'm at the Tokyo airport, waiting for our connecting flight to Seoul, happy to report that I'm no longer afraid of flying, which may or may not have something to do with the fact that we got a free upgrade to business class on our way here. Airplanes are awesome.
Tom December 28, 2007 2:22am or 4:22pm
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I leave for Asia tomorrow. I hope to write things and put some of those things here when I return, but then again, I wanted to write about Christmas and how it needs to be brought down a notch, and it doesn;t look like I'll have the time for that.
Tom December 26, 2007 10:47pm
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How long does it take to build a copy machine? Because a guy's been fixing the one outside my office for two days straight now.
Tom December 20, 2007 4:52pm
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God damn it - I have my work computer password memorized. I don't want to. I don't need to. I was perfectly fine with having to look at a post-it stuck to my monitor and get the password from there. But my computer was dumb this week and I had to log on more than usual and now the god damn password is in my head and that's just more room taken up by letters and numbers. I have like three dozen passwords in my head and this was going to be the one I didn't. But now I do. I also know that on storyboard page 111 of episode 27 the S.P.H.I.N.X. paratrooper is being shot full of bullets. That was over ten episodes ago - I don't need that information anymore. Can I please get rid of it? I don't even want to imagine how dangerous a process Selective Forgetting would be, but why do I remember that my sister's kindergarten teacher sold magnets on the side and once she gave me a magnet with a kid standing near a swimming pool but the swimming pool said 9 feet deep and our pool was 8 feet deep and so she crossed the 9 out with a marker and wrote an 8? Why can't I remember all the words to Subterranean Homesick Blues instead?
Tom December 19, 2007 10:47am
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My Secret Santa rules!
Tom December 18, 2007 11:29am
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My Secret Santa rules.
Tom December 17, 2007 12:57pm
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If I'm not nightmaring about zombies, I'm nightmaring about airplanes. But never together!
Tom December 14, 2007 4:43pm
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A few more things about the chili con contest.
The chili that finished in last place? The only vegetarian contestant. But, well, I guess that's how it goes.
And, the best-tasting-chili contest was in fact followed up by a who-can-eat-the most contest at the end of the day between Joe and Danny. Everyone in the office was gathered around. Rooting like a mob. The winnings to be won began as a box of Gas-X. Then Siobhan threw fifty cents down. Then a few more people threw some ones. Then a five. Then Alex threw in twenty from the winnings she won earlier. Then Chris threw in another ten or twenty. Joe would end up winning. It was the most ridiculous thing I've witnessed in a while, him and Danny just shoveling chili into their mouths while people threw down money. The people I work with are great.
Tom December 14, 2007 10:01am
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The STEPHEN DESTEFANO PRESENTS THE BAYNE SHINDELL CHILI CON CONTEST 2007 is today and I will be letting you know how it goes.
Bringing you up to speed:
There's a chili contest today. My name is attached to it, but really this is PeeDee's baby. He's managed to enlist 11 contestants and secure a victory pot of $150 and growing. Last night Rachel tried to get PeeDee and me drunk so we would fail at our recipe (my dad's secret recipe). Later in the evening there was a showdown in the bean aisle of Whole Foods when our cart collided head on with Chris and Liz's. We have reason to believe their special ingredient is cocoa. Ours is XXXX. It arrived yesterday (via airplane). Stephen said "Four Xs?! Titties and pubic hair only get three Xs." I said those are the first two ingredients.
PeeDee and I bought too much meat. Then we put it all in. I have no idea what the grand total for this pot of chili was, but it's probably over sixty bucks. (On the other hand, I am posting these sentences on office time shhhhhhhh.) We eyeballed the vegetables and then added the secret spices. It's pretty thick, but tasty as hell. It will go good on nachos. It's a good nacho chili.
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People have been arriving at work. The fridges are full of chili. So much. There is talk of following the taste contest with a who-can-eat-the-most contest. I think that would be something I'd like to watch.
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Some people had their wives cook their chili. We're screwed.
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It's not really about winning though, is it? It's about hanging out and eating chili. I want $75 though.
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I'm starting to get - what's the word? - wafts of chili. I think it's starting.
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The theme from Rocky is now being blasted in the conference room. I guess we're underway. The latest quote: When asked if he had any idea the chili contest would come to this, Stephen said "I just thought you and PeeDee were gonna cook me chili."
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Too many crock pots. We blew a fuse.
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I'm just gonna go ahead and say it: If it weren't for this chili contest and The Debutante Hour show at the end of the week, life just wouldn't be worth waking up for.
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The judges are in the room. The doors have been closed. Our fate is in their hands.
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Chris bought us Venture Bros. speedsuit sweatshirts for the holidays. If Susan can email me back the picture I sent, I can show you how sporty they are.
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Theyre tallyiong scores!
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WE WON!!! Just kidding. I don't know yet.
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Alex won! With 59 chili points! (PeeDee and I finished fourth or fifth. Which is secretly what we we're actually trying to do.)
Okay, now I think we can all eat.
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Sporty.
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Me: I feel funky.
Chris: Yeah I feel weird.
Stephen: I feel great!
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There is talk of a lasagna-off, a fried chicken-off, a spaghetti sauce-off, and a cobb salad-off. I think everyone's delirious.
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It smells like chili in here.
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Tom December 12, 2007
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