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Mark Sahm will not save you money on car insurance. When used in moderation, Mr. Sahm has been known to revive dead brain cells. Satellite tracking pinpoints Sahm lurking around New York City where he's rumored to be a multimedia specialist, invisible super hero, and future Mega Millions winner.
S.Rod does not set off airport-security with her sexy cuteness, or her titanium spinal support. This petite Puertoruvian has been known to use her powers of the Force to steal Sahm's TV Dinners. With her love of crafts and interior-design, S.Rod hopes to make the world a better place one quilted seat cover at a time.
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We’re driving away from that ol’ town called 2008 today… and flooring it like Hell is breaking loose!
So what if it wasn’t a banner year for us? We still got a lot of little things accomplished (updated our websites, finally finished our basement renovations, did 4 podcasts, and regenerated S.Rod’s spine!). It just was not [...]
People think I’m out of my mind to have a daily commute that balloons to as much as 4 hours. I agree that it’s crazy to do it, but I’m not out of my mind. The truth is, some of it is my fault, while most of it was imposed on me. Here was how [...]
As you may have read the other week, we will be seeing Wilco on the second night of Lollapalooza. While it pains me to have to miss Rage, I know that Wilco will put on a show that is more relevant to S.Rod and I in our present states. Eighteen year old Mark is turning [...]
With less than a month to go until S.Rod and I journey to Chiacgo for the Lollapalooza music festival, we have been scouring the Somrod music archives for songs we expect to hear. Since I have seen Radiohead three times now, I’m not too worried about hearing songs and so on— I just know that [...]
When you must choose between two great bands—one from your past against one from your present—there is bound to be regret in your future.
I’m sure the line above is paraphrasing a famous quote from somewhere (even if Google is not showing me one), but it accurately describes my situation when I attend the 2008 Lollapalooza [...]
Seventeen days ago, I set a goal to find the Writer-Self.
Okay, well, I really set a goal to blog every day this month. But this was to shake off the rust in finding that self.
But you know, that self wasn’t as lost as I thought. I wasn’t as rusty as I expected to be. Experiment [...]
Even though I’ve had my own websites for more than eight years now, I’ve gone through many name changes for my primary site. The most difficult was the one that we just transitioned in March: going from Magic Junk to Somrod Creative.
Magic Junk had built up a pretty fair amount of traffic, but the name [...]
As you may have guessed from the title, today was yet another day in the basement. We’re still trying to finish all of the odds and ends that I left at the end of last fall. Luckily, this was perfectly fine with us, since it was muggy for most of the day. Then after dinner, [...]
And here I thought that no one in their right mind would ever want to be Mark Sahm.
I got a letter from my credit card company today with a new card attached that had a new account number. I had not lost my card, and it wasn’t up for renewal until next year, [...]
In April, I flirted with the idea to dust off a ‘failed’ project. Then I got discouraged because it seemed like too much work to take on at the time.
In May, I had a conversation with someone about him picking up a failed project of his and trying again; that he may as well do [...]
I mentioned the other day that I really need to replace my 2001 G4, as my program usage is extremely limited by the slow processor. I was hoping that Apple would update the Mac Pro this week, so I could pick up one of the current ones in a closeout sale. But they did not [...]
I think the clutch is stuck. It won’t shift into gear. This was supposed to be fixed a long time ago. But it’s not. This is what I get for depending on others.
So here I am in the dead of winter, stuck at the end of the driveway, where the melted snow collects. I’m sitting [...]
Before I started writing this blog post, I opened a new track in GarageBand and began remixing for thirty minutes straight. This was done without listening to more than the first 15 seconds of the song. In other words, I was remixing blind. Just switching instruments, adjusting effects, turning digital “knobs” and so on.
At the [...]
I may as well confess that the only other living organism in the Somrod household has officially kicked the bucket. Yes, I am referring to our lime tree, which was highlighted in previous posts here and here, in better days obviously.
After we moved out of our apartment, the lime tree just never adapted to life [...]
As some of you may recall, my purchase of an iPhone for S.Rod and I was not well timed. It happens. While rumors of the 3G iPhone released are pretty verified at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, I’m not really that bummed about it. I’ve had my iPhone for 5 months now, and am [...]
It’s not going to be easy. Five days into my June renaissance, and I have not been able to write the more in-depth blog posts that I wanted to. Each night, I’m sitting here at 11pm pushing the envelope to make my goal, yet knowing that my writing procedure is slow and can never develop [...]
Stepping back into an old role is never easy, especially when the rules have changed. Of course, the range of old roles is very wide. It could be as simple as doing an extra thing during the cold season. Or it could be as complex as having to pick up the job duties of a [...]
