We here at Hoystory would like to welcome to town the world's greatest niece to a place where there is dry heat, as opposed to that stifling humidity often found in New England.
We here at Hoystory would like to welcome to town the world's greatest niece to a place where there is dry heat, as opposed to that stifling humidity often found in New England.
Just on the principle of the thing, I wish I had a paintball gun. So here it is, nearly 3 a.m. and I'm watching "Firefly" on one screen and working on Adobe InDesign templates on the other when I hear a sound outside my window that sounds like water, but not the spray sprinklers. There's […]
I get home tonight, flush the toilet and the lever inside the tank breaks. It somehow got corroded and just snapped. A quick jaunt over to Home Depot and $4.28 later and I've got it fixed. I need to visit Home Depot more often; the young lady working in the fixtures department...hubba, hubba.
I've been criticized by an elderly individual because I have failed to publish any pictures or accounts of my recent foray into hot and humid New England. I'm working on it, but here, to tide you over is a photograph of one individual who wasn't bothered by the recent record highs.
I returned to sunny San Diego yesterday afternoon after spending hours in the air. Luckily, I'm very intimidating and managed to subtly dissuade other passengers from sitting next to me, so I wasn't so cramped in those ever-smaller plane seats. I got up early this morning -- because my internal clock is way out of […]
Well, it's been over a year since my driver's expired -- and the guy at the check-in counter was the first to notice. An expired license is the same as having no ID at all, which means: secondary screening. Overall, no big deal. The guys searching me were quite personable and professional. They both got […]
Checked out the new movie "Fantastic Four" at the theater. I did my usual -- going to the last showing of the night. Only about eight people were in the audience, which is nice. The film is fun, but isn't paced very well. It's about an hour and 45 minutes long, but it feels short […]
On Friday, for the third year in a row, management went out and bought some nice Costco-brand cakes to help celebrate some birthdays. The announcement went out over the in-house messaging system: "Come grab a piece of cake to celebrate Mitch and Gordon's birthdays." Mitch was born June 30, Gordon on July 5. Yours truly […]
Growing up in the Hoy family was different, unique. Most kids in most families eventually attempt to hurt or demoralize their siblings by claiming that the sibling was adopted. Yes, it's not politically correct nowadays -- and it was never really a bad thing in reality -- but kids are kids and somehow the claim […]