Lost at Sea (and other tales)

Every so often, I get the urge to hunt for "do-it-yourself" type things on the internet. This time the fruits of that search include the Einstein chalkboard message generator, and some mad libs from pbs.org. So, here you go:

Lost at Sea
Brianne and Maureen were taking a ship from New York City to Eurasia for their summer vacation. While they were playing cards one night, a(n) fucking storm rocked the boat for hours. Brianne hit his/her head and fell overboard! "Mazel tov!" cried Maureen . But Brianne was sinking! How ever would he/she survive? Brianne woke up suddenly and saw water and orcas all around. "How breathless!" he/she thought. Brianne needed to breathe, but was too far from the surface. His/her ear was caught in seaweed! Just then, a gazelle quickly came to the rescue! The gazelle took Brianne in its mouth and pulled him/her up for air. It made a(n) sizzling sound and swam away. "That amazing creature saved your life!" shouted Maureen as 3.14 sailors threw Brianne a life saving bass guitar .

Encounter!
Heidi and Kraig were camping by Mt. Michelle last summer when it began to snow like lemmings and dachshunds . Their tent fell down and there wasn't much food left. Kraig had only some powdered mini donuts , and that was all! There was no one for miles! So they had to set out on their way to safety with only their backpacks and some Jesuits . After hours of hiking, Heidi spotted a(n) midnight blue great white whale high in a tree, watching them! "Don't worry," said Kraig "The great white whale is not interested in humans if you leave it alone. But that unicorn over there sure seems angry about something!" The unicorn was coming right at them growling and with what looked like savory teeth! The two climbed up a tree, and the unicorn came ever closer. Kraig and Heidi were so scared! But when they looked again, it was only a baby unicorn that wanted to eat their yummy powdered mini donuts !

Mad Libs!!

Okay! I have created the most primitive online Mad Libs in history. A link to the first one is at the end of this post. Here are your directions: the link will take you to a page displaying a bunch of text fields. Under each field is a label indicating the type of word that should go inside. When you have finished filling in all of the fields, you can reveal the secret Mad Lib's full text by clicking, dragging, and highlighting the entire page. Don't do this until you've filled in the blanks, or it won't be any fun! Hopefully everything will work right - please share any amusing phrases you end up with.

So! If you're ready for some Mad Libbing, click here.

Sunny

It's a gorgeous day. I know I talk about the weather a lot, but honestly - my view in the office includes three large windows, and if it's lovely and sunny outside, it's constantly making me happy. (Of course, as I was writing, the sun moved behind a cloud. Bastard.)

Likkered up Trivial Pursuit on Saturday night was fun. Plus, Sam gave me a NKOTB 7" of Popsicle! That's it; I'm getting a turntable pronto. A couple rounds of Mad Libs were a good capper for the night. Note: no matter what age you are, some variant of "poop" as a noun or verb in Mad Libs is never not funny. I didn't get home until after 4:00 a.m., but still managed to get about 6.5 hours of sleep. Ahh, Sunday mornings.

Tonight: music.