Saturday, December 31, 2005

Fragile Ribs

Yessir, I broke/cracked some ribs. Not the barbeque kind either, the real deal. Bad timing too since I'm in ski central out here in colorado. No skiing for Kyle. No wrestling, no gut punches, no bear hugs. There's a lot of grizzlies out here...and they hug pretty hard sometimes.

Did I do it skiing off of a killer rock cliff? Nope. Sledding down an icy tundra? Nope. Ice skating with stupid figure skates? There you go. Biggest fall of my life, at least on level ground. We were playing tag and I was it, so I went charging down the ice, tripped on the front skate break, and slammed down damn hard. Got the wind knocked out of me, grew pale, shivvering, pain, emergency room, etc. No internal injuries fortunately. My brother broke some ribs a few years ago and punctures his lung and liver. Fragile ribs run in the family I suppose.

Next post: Crazy Cousin New Years Party

Monday, December 26, 2005

Kyle Wins

Here's my APA award profile. Don't I look just fabulous? I mean, completely in the zone? I OWN that tux!!!*


*the tux was rented.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Enjoy this press report of a recent paper from our lab.

Enjoy the term "appetite cube".

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Kyle on Now

Kyle is sitting, slouching and tired, sucking on a candy cane, listening to a wild Christmas mix, thinking about how he's finished with teaching this semester -- finally -- and gets to teach a much less demanding course next semester on Drugs of Abuse, and planning to let a little candy cane drool slip out of the corner of his mouth and drop onto the keyboard below for the next computer user to enjoy....

Discovery Health is a fine, fine channel to watch.

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Kyle on Thanks and Giving

Thanksgiving 2005 Awards

Best Dressed: Kyle in his metrosexual duds
Best Idea: A whisky tasting party sponsored by adults, who can afford fancy scotches and whiskies.
Worst Idea: Having a whisky tasting party the day after Thanksgiving--beer hangovers and belly full-overs don't fit well with whisky, nope, not well at all.
Laziest Lounge: Rob on the armchair, Thanksgiving day. Damn, the man was loungin'.
Most aggressive ping pong: Rob. Yep, he's both armchair-lazy and pong-crazy.
Turkiest Turkey: Butterball
Least Watching of Football: Kyle and Dee (Tie)
Most Watching of Turkey Temperature: Greg
Wormiest Roughhousing: Kyle
Most Airborne Roughhousing: Jeremy
Most Stupid Snowy November: Michigan
Most Overrrated Tom
: Tom Ainslie, or "T and A" as the ladies call him.
Most Underrated Lasse: Brad
Best and Worst Binge: Scott and Liz, Liz and Scott
Best Secret (but Loud and Drunken) Scraping of Car Window: Rob, after whisky party
Best Addiction: Marie and her brown gravy
Worst Addiction: Kyle and his new slacks