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Brady Needs

Brady — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:55:00 +0000

So, you’ve probably seen this one on Facebook. I found it quite amusing. I’m not going to tag anyone, but feel free to check it out. I know you probably did anyway.

THE RULES: Go to your favorite search engine and enter your FIRST name and the word NEEDS in quotes (” [Your name] needs”), and see what comes up. List 10 sentences that make sense and then tag some of your friends if you want.

Brady needs professional help understanding the nature of effective moderation in virtual conversational spaces

Brady needs another dimple

Brady needs a GF!!

Brady needs to learn to shut up.

Brady Needs to Return to Salem

Brady needs an Oscar

Brady needs a home

Brady Needs to Be More Original in Karaoke

Brady needs to adjust to field crown

Brady needs air time!

So there you have. Now you know what I need.

Happy Halloween!

Brady — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:07:00 +0000

So, probably not the most timely of posts. I’ve been fighting with my computer, my browser, and Blogger to get these photos uploaded. I have finally vanquished the computer gnomes that prevented this post.

I’ve officially been 29 for 12 days now, but I wanted to post about what I did on my birthday. I had a wonderful time, thanks in great part to some wonderful friends. I took the day off, to take advantage of the quirkiness of Ford’s holiday schedules and work my way into a 5 day weekend.

I had been having a hard time trying to schedule a get-together with friends. The timing was just off. Someone took it on themselves to organize a breakfast at the Northside Grill. I’m still not entirely sure who it was, but I am very grateful to that person or persons. I would have never thought about breakfast. The waitress brought out a brownie cake with candles for both me and Seth who shares my birthday. Brownies at breakfast. Who’da thunk?

The second plan of the day was to go hiking after Friday Forum. I had managed to convince Jonathan that he should come hiking, as it would probably be one of the last great days of the fall. Together we persuaded Amy to join us, and Amy brought Jin.

We drove out to Pinckney Rec, and it was a beautiful day! The leaves were still colorful and mostly still on the trees. The temperature was perfect for hiking! We set out on the Crooked Lake trail, a five mile hike. Amy and Jonathan weren’t on vacation like I was, so they walked part of the trail with me and then went back and did important things, while I did my best to wear out Jin.

Jin and I did fairly well together. I think he didn’t realize that there might be squirrels off trail. He did get a little impatient with me when I stopped to take pictures. Right towards the last half mile of the trail, Jin noticed something off trail. Unfortunately, we were at the top of a steepish hill, and the squirrel or woodland creature or whatever was at the bottom of that hill. It was a fun ride down.

The final part of the day was the Monster Ball. I had been intending to exercise my birthday right to not dress up on Halloween, but it came to me that I should go as Dr. Horrible. I posted the video a few posts back to get a few of my friends up to speed, because i knew many wouldn’t really know who I was.

I think I pulled it off fairly well. For an internet meme that not many people around these parts had heard of, I only had to explain myself a few times. My welding goggles and my freeze ray made it.

One of the events at the Monster Ball was a Mr. and Miss Monster Ball 2008 talent contest. The HSAC had invited a few people to participate, Mike and Brian notably. I was not in the original set of contestants. However, someone didn’t show, and I got asked at the last minute if I could do something so there was an even number of guys and ladies in the contest. Fortunately, I had my iPod in my car with the sound track for Dr. Horrible on it.

I quickly put together a lip sync to the Laundry Day / My Freeze Ray song. I convinced Amy to be the Penny to my Billy. She had seen the show, and knew what was going on. We ran through it once before the show, me listening to the iPod and narrating the actions as we went along. The lip sync went well and got a rousing round of applause.

Somehow, against Mike’s rendition (and real singing) “The Monster King” and Brian’s excellent song about vampires, the crowd gave its approval to my obviously lip-synced song and crowned me Mr. Monster 2008. Still no real idea how that happened.

Kara Stowers, dressed as Kimmy Gibler, was crowned Miss Monster Ball. It was a fantastic way to end the night. Thanks to all who shared a part of their day with me. I couldn’t have picked a better day

Dr. Horrible

Brady — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:09:00 +0000

I’ve raved about Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog before, but probably only in real life. If you haven’t see it yet, you absolutely must.

It’s a 45 minute internet show, which you can see on hulu at the above link. Here’s one of my favorite songs from the show:

It’s basically awesome. Anyways, I love the air.

An Alphabet Tag Thing

Brady — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:43:00 +0000

I got tagged. I guess. Whatever that means. Silly internet memes.

A-Attached or Single: Single

B-Best Friend: Pierre, my roomba

C-Cake or Pie: Pie… Apple Pie

D-Day of Choice: Thursday

E-Essential Item: iPod + Nike. I can’t run without it. (And that’s really about all the usage my iPod gets!)

F-Favorite Color: To wear: blue. To look at: red

G-Greatest Accomplishment: Learning to juggle scarves

H-Hometown: Lovell, Wyoming

I-Indulgences: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

J-January or July: July

K-kids: Nope, see M.

L-Life is incomplete without: 3 books in my to-read list

M-Marriage Date: Should I speculate about the future?

N-Number of siblings: 7

O-Oranges or apples: Honeycrisp Apples (But really, it’s a seasonal thing…)

P- Phobias or fears: Falling and Failing

Q-Quotes: Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley

R-Reason to smile: Because it’s all fun and games until someone loses $23 million.

S-Season: Fall (Really, apple season) (and sometimes oregano)

T-Tag 5 friends: You, you, you, you and you. You’re all it.

U-Unknown fact about me: I’m terribly self-conscious about my chipped tooth.

V-Very favorite store: Borders

W-Worst Habit: Blogging / Facebooking at work

X-X-ray or Ultra-sound: I prefer to think of this question as X-ray vision or Ultra-sonic hearing. I choose X-ray vision.

Y-Your favorite food: My favorite food is really sharing what I’ve made with friends. So whatever that is. It’s probably not a casserole. It’s more likely an oven omelet.

Z-Zodiac sign: Scorpio