It is Finished
Huzzah! I just completed everything I needed to do at work. Let the holidays begin! Woo!
ramblings
Play-Stay-Shon
A good friend of mine just got me a frikkin’ Playstation 2 for Festivus! I… am… speechless. That is perhaps the coolest gift anyone’s ever given me. … YAY! … So, on the way home from the EB where this fantastic gift was purchased in plain sight, we stopped again at Best Buy, because we …
Saddam Captured
I just woke up to the news on WTOP that Saddam Hussein has been captured. I suppose it’s good news, but I’m not quite sure exactly how this changes things. Everyone seems to be very upbeat that this will really change the course of things for the better in Iraq, but no one has given …
Late Shift
So, I’m still at work– look at that timestamp!! …after a particularly brutal weekend bout with Final Cut Pro, who made me its bitch. I’ll spare you the gory details, and leave it at this: I had to redo nearly two days worth of editing today. Errr… yesterday. So, I’m sitting here, waiting for the …
Shiny new cell phone, same old number
Well, it’s not new honestly— it belonged to my wife. But it is in fact shiny, so there’s that. Anyway, the upshot is for all of you who tried to call me in the last week or so, but couldn’t get ahold of me because my damn Treo wouldn’t ring on incoming calls (amidst other …
Hudson Leick
I really enjoyed her as Callisto on on Xena, but honestly— she scares me. But in a good way.
Blowers mar the joy of leaves
I find that I often agree with Roger Ebert’s reviews of movies, and again, I agree with him here, in a small essay against the most evil of powered lawn implements: the leaf blower. http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-edt-ebert14.html As a side note, I have often said that if, at some point, I am to be responsible for a …