Charlie Hatton About This
About Me
Email Me

Bookmark
 FeedBurnerEmailTwitterFacebookAmazon
Charlie Hatton
Brookline, MA



All Quotes
HomeAboutArchiveBestShopEmail

  |  

Howdy, friendly reading person!
I'm on a bit of a hiatus right now, but only to work on other projects -- one incredibly exciting example being the newly-released kids' science book series Things That Make You Go Yuck!
If you're a science and/or silliness fan, give it a gander! See you soon!

Weekend Werind: Back to Base Camp

The missus and I finally made it back to the homestead tonight, just in time for a few short hours’ sleep and a full day’s work tomorrow.

Out. Effing. Standing.

In the meantime, I promised a Weekend Werind, and I aim to deliver. Come hell, high water, canceled flights (had one of those) or looming colds (developing one of those as we type, it appears), we are going to have a stroll through the archives tonight.

“If we wind up with a school bus or the fricking Wienermobile in ’12, I won’t be especially surprised.”

A short stroll, perhaps. And you probably don’t want to stroll in my general vicinity, what with the sneezing and coughing and post-nasal drip and all. But we’re strolling, damn it. We will stroll.

And tonight, it seems prudent to take that constitutional in the neighborhood of the post I won’t be writing tonight, but which would be the post I’d write, were I to write a post tonight from scratch. Only I’ve already written it, which is tremendously convenient, since, as I mentioned, I’m not going to write it.

Follow that? Me, neither. It’s quite possible the NyQuil is attacking my neurons instead of the cold germs. Stupid over-the-counter placebo crap.

At any rate, I’m happy to be back home after the annual Christmastime trip, but haven’t the energy, the will, nor the ability to remain upright long enough to tell you exactly how happy. So instead, I’ll tell you how happy I was four years ago at just about this time, in a post from New Year’s Eve, 2004:

Home at Last, Home at Last

If you care to delve that far into the past, you’ll find a photo essay (including really, really crappy thumbnail pics) and ten things that I most appreciated upon returning back to Chez Charlie. Four years later, and the list is still pretty darned accurate. Sure, the connection speeds are better now at my folks’ and in-laws’ places — Santa finally put DSL on his list for those houses, thank Rudolph — but mostly, nothing much has changed. I still won’t feel clean until a nice hot shower in my own bathroom, I still can’t imagine how people in this world (many of which I’m related to, apparently) live without TiVo, and the car rental places still can’t keep our reservation straight.

(Back in ’04, they switched out our compact request for a pickup truck. This time, it was a PT Cruiser.

If we wind up with a school bus or the fricking Wienermobile in ’12, I won’t be especially surprised.)

But mostly, I’m just glad to be back, and about to spend a restful night in my own bed. It’s good to see the family, but it’s also good to be back where the heart is. And the clean clothes. And a familiar mattress.

(Also, the TiVo. Seriously. After a week of live TV, I was starting to get the shakes. It’s like one long commercial with the occasional twenty seconds of show scattered in. It’s like living in caveman times. Yeesh.)

So that’s it for me. After a long travel day to get back to home, sweet home, I’m off to bed, sweet bed. G’night, and g’weekend.

Permalink  |  No Comments



Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

HomeAboutArchiveBestShopEmail © 2003-15 Charlie Hatton All Rights Reserved
Highlights
Me on Film 'n' Stage:
  Drinkstorm Studios


Me on Science (silly):
  Secondhand SCIENCE


Me on Science (real):
  Meta Science News


Me on ZuG (RIP):
  Zolton's FB Pranks
  Zolton Does Amazon


Favorite Posts:
30 Facts: Alton Brown
A Commute Dreary
A Hallmark Moment
Blue's Clues Explained
Eight Your 5-Hole?
El Classo de Espanol
Good News for Goofballs
Grammar, Charlie-Style
Grammar, Revisitated
How I Feel About Hippos
How I Feel About Pinatas
How I Feel About Pirates
Life Is Like...
Life Is Also Like...
Smartass 101
Twelve Simple Rules
Unreal Reality Shows
V-Day for Dummies
Wheel of Misfortune
Zolton, Interview Demon

Me, Elsewhere

Features
Standup Comedy Clips

Selected Clips:
  09/10/05: Com. Studio
  04/30/05: Goodfellaz
  04/09/05: Com. Studio
  01/28/05: Com. Studio
  12/11/04: Emerald Isle
  09/06/04: Connection

Boston Comedy Clubs

 My 100 Things Posts

Selected Things:
  #6: My Stitches
  #7: My Name
  #11: My Spelling Bee
  #35: My Spring Break
  #36: My Skydives
  #53: My Memory
  #55: My Quote
  #78: My Pencil
  #91: My Family
  #100: My Poor Knee

More Features:

List of Lists
33 Faces of Me
Cliche-O-Matic
Punchline Fever
Simpsons Quotes
Quantum Terminology

Favorites
Banterist
...Bleeding Obvious
By Ken Levine
Defective Yeti
DeJENNerate
Divorced Dad of Two
Gallivanting Monkey
Junk Drawer
Life... Weirder
Little. Red. Boat.
Mighty Geek
Mitchieville
PCPPP
Scaryduck
Scott's Tip of the Day
Something Authorly
TGNP
Unlikely Explanations

Archives
Full Archive

Category Archives:

(Stupid) Computers
100Things
A Doofus Is Me
Articles 'n' Zines
Audience Participation
Awkward Conversations
Bits About Blogging
Bitter Old Man Rants
Blasts from My Past
Cars 'n' Drivers
Dog Drivel
Eek!Cards
Foodstuff Fluff
Fun with Words!
Googlicious!
Grooming Gaffes
Just Life
Loopy Lists
Making Fun of Jerks
Marketing Weenies
Married and a Moron
Miscellaneous Nonsense
Potty Talk / Yes, I'm a Pig
Sleep, and Lack Thereof
Standup
Tales from the Stage
Tasty Beverages
The Happy Homeowner
TV & Movies & Games, O My!
Uncategorized
Vacations 'n' Holidays
Weird for the Sake of Weird
Whither the Weather
Wicked Pissah Bahstan
Wide World o' Sports
Work, Work, Work
Zug

Heroes
Alas Smith and Jones
Berkeley Breathed
Bill Hicks
Dave Barry
Dexter's Laboratory
Douglas Adams
Evening at the Improv
Fawlty Towers
George Alec Effinger
Grover
Jake Johannsen
Married... With Children
Monty Python
Nick Bakay
Peter King
Ren and Stimpy
Rob Neyer
Sluggy Freelance
The Simpsons
The State

Plugs, Shameless
100 Best Humor Blogs | Healthy Moms Magazine

HumorSource

 

Feeds and More
Subscribe via FeedBurner

[Subscribe]

RDF
RSS 2.0
Atom
Credits
Site Hosting:
Solid Solutions

Powered by:
MovableType

Title Banner Photo:
Shirley Harshenin

Creative Commons License
  This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons License

Performancing Metrics

Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape

Valid XHTML 1.0

Valid CSS!

© 2003-15 Charlie Hatton
All Rights Reserved