Hmmm.... I want chocolate milk....
Urg! I want chocolate milk....
I had some soy milk this morning and it was wonderful! Why aren't soy products dirt cheap? I can still get milk for $1.79 per gallon and that makes me not want to get soy milk when it's about the same per quart.
(Here's hoping that within minutes, this post is not attacked by "Comment 'Bots" or "C.R.A.P." = "Comment Robotic Automatic Posters". Someone must have a name for those types of posts.)
Andy's Gnome 
Unbelieveable - I posted this at 10:37 and three minutes later, two comments that look like they are from some sort of robotic crawler. There was nothing here except the photo and the caption. I wonder if I can selectively hide or remove comments?
The library in town is going to have a book discussion on Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones tonight. Funny that my old library had a book discussion in May on the same book. Here's one book that I remember enough of to not have to re-read.
(Written on 9/8/2005; forward-dated to 9/12/2005)
("Future-posted" maybe?)
Looks like Max snuck out on our plans to show up wherever he was going to go to lunch today. He's here for an exit interview tomorrow and that's it. Bummer. I'm sure lunch would have been good wherever it would have been, but it was more about just hanging out that it was getting a full belly.
Have to make plans for the future since he's staying in the area.
I woke up this morning at about 5:30 am and could not get back to sleep. The Oprah show was getting to me. I also heard the neighbors alarm clock-radio go off at 6 am.
My wife taped Oprah and we watched it in the evening. This is the first of two shows dealing with Hurricane Katrina: "Oprah on Location: Inside the Katrina Catastrophe".
I'd heard some of what she'd reported on last week on NPR. It was difficult watching the Chief of Police talk about not having the police presence to stop what all was going on in the Super Dome.
(Written on 9/7/2005; back-dated to 9/6/2005)
(minor edit 9/11/2007)
On the way back from the dentist, I saw a car with a vanity plate reading "BLOGGER". That inspired me to get back to posting. I have a small feeling of sour grapes when it comes to vanity plates. On one hand, they seem a waste of money. Yet my friend David has them. If the state would let me get the ones I wanted when we first went to 7 characters, I'd probably have them and think differently.
I wanted to get "THX 1138", but because they actually issue the plates as three characters followed by four numbers, this will come up automatically and will not be honored as a vanity plate. The BMV site tells me: "The sequences of characters you are trying to request do not meet the reserve standards."
Funny that when I tried "NCC 1701" I get this different message ("Your request is not available, please try again.") This still makes me think that someone was able to get this plate. But I checked "NCC 1702" and it gives the message about not meeting the reserve standards.
(Written on 9/7/2005; back-dated to 9/6/2005)
Called my sister and talked to her about for a while as it was her birthday.
(Written on 9/8/2005; back-dated to 8/31/2005)
Most of the group from work went out to lunch at Las Margaritas to meet Darren, who had left some time back. Mexican food is good food.
(Written on 9/8/2005; back-dated to 8/16/2005)
Make something simple and I'll still find an excuse not to use it. I've gone nearly 6 weeks and not made a post here. Lots of interesting and even more mundane things have happened. So, it's a trip back in time via receipts and photos to see what all has happened that I should share here.
Watched most of 30 Days tonight. This was the fifth show this season. Two people from New Jersey went out to the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Missouri. I was juiced by the use of Solar power. It reminded me of the Green Means (html site, text site) program on using solar in Africa to allow children to study at night with electric lights.
Why do I feel that it would be so much easier to have a house in the country with a garden, a composting toilet, solar power and a clothes line if I were a lotto winner?
(Written on 7/14/2005; back-dated to 7/13/2005)
Tuesday was the last day for the Summer Reading program this year. The wife and daughter attended this mostly without me, due to work. I was along for a couple of these. Actually, my injury back on 6/28 caused them to miss half of one of the nights. It was good to meet the folks who came along from the Society for Creative Anachronism. I chatted with one fellow who talked about Marcon and his Forbidden Planet costume. Cool!
I'll have to either crash or attend Marcon next year. It's been far too long.
(Written on 7/14/2005; back-dated to 7/12/2005)
We watched A Little Princess this evening for "Family Movie Night", which is normally on Saturdays. I want, no, I need to get this on DVD.
I wish that I could keep in more regular contact with Errol Sitahal. Perhaps I will have to go back to writing him actual letters. Or, if I get a calling plan that includes Canada, that would be cool as well.
(Written on 7/14/2005; back-dated to 7/10/2005)
(Label added 9/10/2007)
While replacing the starter on my car, a bolt came loose (finally) and I gashed my right thumb on metal on the bottom of the engine. One look was enough to tell me that I would have to have stitches. The father-in-law called the bride and she and the daughter came back to find me still working on the car. I wanted to finish putting on the new starter. All was going well, until I bumped my thumb again and it really began to hurt.
We left the daughter with the in-laws and headed out to find an urgent care or an Emergency Room. Keep in mind, I had watched the premiere episode of 30 Days on FX back on 6/15/2005 and I'm thinking that even with insurance, that I'm going to get a bill for $500 for just walking in the ER. As it was, we paid our co-pay and that took care of everything. Yeah insurance! But I still think there should be some form of socialized medicine.
I ended up with 4 and stitches and the nickname "FrankenThumb" from a friend at work. The Novacain hurt more than anything else.
Looking back, I should have put some ice on it to help with the brusing and swelling. Of course, mechanics gloves or just heavy work gloves would have prevented it.
(Written on 7/14/2005; back-dated to 6/28/2005)
(Minor edit on 9/8/2005)
I'm a true fan, but I've never did keep track of how many times I saw Star Wars. It would be nice to know, but I'd rather just know the date that I first saw it.
Maybe a trip to the microfilm copies of the hometown newspaper is in order? That is, if the library still has them. Of course there are many things to look up.
This morning while driving to work, I finished the last tape, the author interview, of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. I had finished the story itself last night while driving home from work. What a marvelous first novel for a person to write.
Interesting that during the author interview she spoke of the movie deal. Here's the IMDB entry on it. Yippee Peter Jackson directing! Whoa, there was a Philippine version of The Lovely Bones in 2003? Amazing - Anghel sa lupa
Book Discussion for this is on Tuesday 5/31 and I'll be there for this one.
My better half had a workshop for the first part of the day.
We then dropped the daughter off at the in-laws who were taking her to see a soccer game with her cousin. This left the two of us free to go and see Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It was enjoyable, but I don't think that I expected it to be better than the original Star Wars. The ending was sad enough that I shead single tear. There were so many places where Anakin could have simply stopped and changed things, but his destiny was set.
I saw George's cameo. His daughter's appearence was distracting - her eyes were all over the place. His son's cameo was excellent. The Tantive IV did not look correct - it was too short in the at mid-ships. Bai Ling's appearence was cut, I found out later. The shot of the early "Imperial Shuttle" with three fighter escort, from the second trailer, was not in the film. And the wrist restrains were in an "arms at your sides" instead of "hands up" position like in the teaser trailer - the "Lord Vader, rise." one.
After the show, we went to On the Boarder for dinner. We'd not been there since Matt was back in town years ago. It was one of his brithdays or something and it might have been before he was married. A long time ago indeed.
(Entered 5/25/2005)
There's a bit more at NuttDotOrg than just the logo that reminds me of the logo from The Incredibles. Hmm, the 10 minute website. Wish I'd checked in yesterday when it showed up.
(Written on 5/25/2005; back-dated to 5/18/2005)
George Lucas as Baron Papanoida, and Papa Smurf. 
In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, writer - director George Lucas will make a cameo appearence as Baron Papanoida. I think it's great to be in your own movies, but my first impression was that his character bore some resemblence to Papa Smurf, both in color and in name. Am I the first person to make this comparison?
Here's hoping that it goes off well and that Episode III is as enjoyable as I still find the original Star Wars.
