World of Meh!

Today is the last day in 2008 and boy what a year this has been. The world has seen many changes, the United States has gone to hell in a handbasket, and people from all different backgrounds are saying “enough!”

No, this is not some cute way to wish you a Merry Christmas by mixing my name and the site name.  Christmas was four days ago, anyway.  However, I find myself in a situation where I am able to use this pun as of very recently (this afternoon, to be more precise), and I would be remiss in letting the opportunity pass by.

I know, not a very popular opinion, but I do have my reasons, which I will explain.  Over the past few months, Lindsey and I have been gathering large quantities of cardboard boxes, breaking them down, and storing them for a big recycling run to make some extra money.  After we moved (two weeks ago today), we decided to start the recycling run today with our moving boxes (after a foiled attempt on Saturday).  We put the boxes in the car (an Audi TT coupe; it was filled completely with boxes), and made our way to the recycling center.  When we arrived, we were told to park on a large vehicle scale for a weigh-in.  Once the fully loaded weight of the vehicle was documented, we were told to unload the cardboard onto a large pile, and return to the vehicle scale for a second weigh-in, without the cardboard.  The weight of the cardboard was determined by the discrepancy in the two weigh-in values.  It turns out we took in 80 pounds of cardboard.  You would think we would be handsomely rewarded for our eco-friendly efforts, wouldn’t you?

So I came across the “Weird News” section of msnbc.com and laughter ensued. My first laugh was courtesy of a man being arrested for performing archaic dentistry out of his apartment. The real chuckler came from the great state of Alaska.

Sweetie, you are unequivocally, undeniably, and unbelievably full of shit.

Internet friends, allow me to enlighten you as to Lindsey’s definition of “cheating” at Trivial Pursuit.  Verbally commanding the game to provide me with a particular dice roll (and, interestingly enough, the game providing me with the requested dice roll more often than not) is the apex of my cheating ways.

After jamming to Guitar Hero: World Tour and loving how my throat hurt after doing my best rendition of Pat Benetar’s “Heartbreaker,” the gang and I decided to put Trivial Pursuit in my XBOX.

So I’m sitting on the couch with my laptop, Lindsey, and Lianne (my cousin’s wife; cousin-in-law?) playing Guitar Hero: World Tour, when Lindsey decides to fire up (no pun intended) Firefox and load of the World of Meh!  Unfortunately, or rather, fortunately, her finger slipped near the end, and she managed to navigate not to the World of Meh, but the World of Men (a rather lovely site; take a peek at http://www.worldofmen.com/).  Needless to say, they were embarrassed, and I was incredibly aroused.

Hi there!  My name, as you could probably tell from my username, is Chris.  My co-conspirator in this venture is my lovely soon-to-be wife, Lindsey.