Category Archives: Real life

I’ll drink to that! (or how I changed the drinking world)

Posted on April 11, 2012 by B. Trout

I’m responsible for Beirut!  No, not the city in Lebanon, but the infuriating beer-gulping drinking game where contestants stumble up to a ping-pong table and heave feathery celluloid balls into plastic beer-filled cups to . . . well, to get … Continue reading →

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Recipe for disaster!

Posted on April 2, 2012 by B. Trout

My mother-in-law’s cooking was so bad that the flies in her neighborhood took up a collection to fix the screen door!  It was absolutely the worst!  Her cooking mantra was that if any moisture remained in any victuals, it wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Top Dead Center

Posted on March 19, 2012 by B. Trout

One day my father told me it doesn’t pay to be too smart.  I asked what he meant by that and he said, “Because if you’re too smart, everyone will be after you to do things.” “Like who?” “Family and … Continue reading →

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We are the Borg! Part II

Posted on March 13, 2012 by B. Trout

It was the 1970’s and the world was no longer viewed as a large formidable expanse.  Humans walked on the moon, sending us snapshots of a finite earth.  We jetted from coast-to-coast for work and pleasure in less time than … Continue reading →

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We are the Borg! Part 1

Posted on February 20, 2012 by B. Trout

I hate the phone!  Absolutely despise it! On a personal basis, I find it a wasted piece of technology.  Objectively, I realize it’s an evil necessity, and honestly admit it is a bit of genius . . . or at … Continue reading →

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