Life
Love the life you Live!
Even god damn day…
Randomness
I can’t figure out why… But this guy is my nemisis.
I’m sure he’s a nice guy. Â He’s probably some kind of cancer survivor that works really hard and volunteers for soup kitchens. But how I know him is “That guy who’s always going the opposite direction on his recumbent bike” when I’m going to or coming home from work.
Rain or Shine, Winter or Summer, He never stops… He’s like some kind of healthy terminator.
I’ve seen him close to my house and I’ve seen him on Church street in Vienna and every road in between. Â He’s never happy or sad, he just has this relentless look on his face as if riding that crazy bike is the only thing that keeps him going. He’s never going very fast… always slow and steady… winning the god damn race.
Stop being dependable and hard working when I’m barely awake and hungry!
New shelves for the storage room
Projects, Randomness, Stuff and Things
I freecycled some shelves and decided to put them up in the basement storage room. They aren’t the best shelves, they look like they’ve been in someones garage for about 20 years. But one man’s trash is another man’s free shelves.
Score another one for Fairfax Freecycle.
Perfect image of Tysons Corner
Life, Randomness
I just saw the most perfect image of distilled Tysons Corner ever on the way home. When I pulled up to the light at route 7 I noticed a nice BMW next to me. It was driven by a girl far too young to afford such a car. Just when I was starting to think about how was unfair that I was driving in a shitty subaru with a broken front tie-rod boot, the girl pulled a small dog from her lap and snuggled it to her face… too perfect.
2011: The Year in Schus
Life, TripsSometimes I forget what I’ve done last week, so it’s not a surprise that at the end of the year I would sit there on New Years Eve and think “What have I done this year?” According to my Picasa gallery, a lot.
The biggest thing I did this year was buying a house. We bought a house in Fairfax in January 2011. I really love it, but having a mortgage really makes you grow up fast. The house was already renovated when we moved in, so there wasn’t many big house projects to take care of. So I built a bar instead.
There were concerts and birthdays and trips to NYC/Georgia/Tampa/Niagara Falls, We hosted Easter and Thanksgiving at our house, I grew a beard, another Cardboard boat race, 2 weddings, and we ran our first adventure race (the warrior dash).
It was a pretty great year in the Schumaker’s life, But without our friends and family there to share in our adventures it wouldn’t have been as fun.
I give it 5 Schu’s.
Thought Nugget
Randomness
You should really know the strength of the toilet you’re sitting on before executing the “Courtesy Flush” maneuver. It’s a pretty big courtesy to shower your undercarriage with shit filled water just so that the other person doesn’t have to smell your poop for 5 minutes.