http://boxofwhine.com Freshly stomped and always too bitter Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:35:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...is who came to play against the USC Trojans this past weekend.  My dad and I flew down to see the game and hang out with his friend Jerry.  I was surprised that the USC fans were so polite, we were only booed once and it was actually in fairly ... http://boxofwhine.com/2008/10/06/the-university-of-scallop-burritos/ About a month before the school year started, I was informed by a text message that I had been drafted into the Staff Mustache Race.  As Knutson said, "there are no winners in a mustache contest"; here they were on the last day of 'stashness:  Yes, that is a month's worth of ... http://boxofwhine.com/2008/09/29/staff-stach-off/ As of this morning, I have offically lost 20% of my original body weight of 300 pounds.  Now that I am at 240, I have only 10 pounds left to shed before I reach my inital goal.  As for my main goal, I'm striving for 40 more pounds.  Honestly, I ... http://boxofwhine.com/2008/09/26/the-race-for-less-update-3/ We here at Box of Whine like to beleive that our content is wide and varied, as well as entertaining.  With that, here are the top three search terms for 9/24/2008: "Chris Pratt,  the truth running from from is so small,  racquetball taglines" It's kind of sad when people searching your friend's ... http://boxofwhine.com/2008/09/24/top-search-phrases/ It's been a while since I've had a bizarre dream, so I guess I was due, here's the dream: While out golfing with the administrators of my high school, I went to reach for my golf clubs but I came to the startling realization that instead of bringing a bag full ... http://boxofwhine.com/2008/09/21/damn-you-david-oreck/ Apparently, if you take the long way to LaPine and take the more direct way back, it's still unbelievably long.  Still, one of the other coaches and I did take the opportunity to name every player.  From the top of my head: 'Cano, Beetlejuice, Donny, Irish, Bulldog, Farcus, Soubcheck, Pillow, Cleetus, ... http://boxofwhine.com/2008/09/19/lapine-and-back-again/ A scary notion: http://boxofwhine.com/2008/09/15/shudder/ Seeing as all those partaking of Box of Whine are diligently observant (especially with my typos) you've have surely noticed the little icons appearing throughout the site.  These are gravatars, gravatars (as I'm sure a lot of you know) stand for Globally Recognized Avatars.  The ones you see when I ... http://boxofwhine.com/2008/09/14/another-fancy-feature-another-heartattack/ Another weight update which for some reason precludes anyone from commenting.  Down to 243 as of this morning, making a total loss of 57 pounds, 13 pounds away from my goal and 3 pounds away from hitting the 20% total body weight loss.  The 20% mark is my closest goal that ... http://boxofwhine.com/2008/09/12/the-race-for-less-update-2/ I'm not sure what I found more interesting; was it that a student was trying to defend how the swastika is "cool" or that I could easily hear Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'" being blasted from her headphones. http://boxofwhine.com/2008/09/09/oxymoron/