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Sooo... I saw 300 with BHK and Tina.

Long story short - I was bored by the movie.

It was a gladiator movie with some nifty visuals... but I feel that maybe I should've read the comic first for more appreciation of transfer of scenes to film.

Not sure what I was expecting, but I really got a general sense of ho-hum from the whole thing... I wasn't engaged at all by the story. Some nifty phalanx action, but that's about it. I can't get into the high speed / slow mo combat stylings.

Had supper at Chevy's - they serve a mountian of food. Not bad, though the Mexico has a better selection of veggie options.

Nice day today... BHK and I initially wanted to make some coffee and sip it on the boardwalk in North Beach, but the wind quickly put the kibosh on that... My two caffeinated crack monkey companions soon decided that perhaps a nice drive through Deale might make for a more comfortable Sunday morning activity. (Thanks to the Love Cube's swell environmental controls and roomy tour vehicle status, no doubt.)

Peekatures from the drive (the very last is the boardwalk bay view, before we iced over)- some broken down/abandoned housing and barns, a nifty little food joint, etc. the 'Fabulous brew coffee shop" was a nice little joint to stop and get some scones and a caffeine recharge. Good (bad?) news is that they're opening another Fabulous Brew about 3 minutes away from our house. Will our tassimo survive? as always, hover for a minor description, or clicken to embiggen.



On the way to dropping Tina off, we noticed a lot of activity at the volunteer fire department. (the semi-decapitated gnome: is on Tina's neighbor's steps, as it has for a year. Each neighbor is supposed to take turns and pass the gnome off to the next person in line to mow as a bait to get him off the porch, but this neighbor would rather keep a broken lawn ornament than do his part.)

The admission to the dog show was free, but there were all sorts of opportunities to help support the local SPCA, no chains, disabled animals and adoptions... though I confess that the primary allure was wiener dog races (videos to follow once uploaded to google). Oddly, there were belly dancers, as well... but I didn't grasp the connection between them and animal assists.

Bachelor day here with the kitties today - BHK is off doing a Lawyer thingie while the boys and I work in the office.

Well, I'm working in the office. the lads are lounging in the sun.



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Yesterday, at the regional home show, there was a huge display regarding "DRYER FIRE" - it turned out to be a $1 bottle brush renamed "Dryer lint safety brush", and selling for $20.

I say, "bah, a mostly synthetic danger cooked up by lint brush salesmen... if you clean the lint trap, how can can it be?"

If I were a more superstitious fellow, I'd fear cruel irony, as we're doing laundry.

That said, I got the idea for a new item.. the smoke detector smoke detector... to detect if your other smoke detector is on fire... because you know that more than nine out of every ten smoke detector fires is started inside a smoke detector. (I wonder how many house fires have started from an electrical short in a smoke detector?)

Current weather - 18°F (RealFeel 2°F)

Happy B'Day, missv!

I've been feeling a rather blah mood underneath my basic mostly chipper vibe for a little while now. I've got a lot of good things going in my life, but still feel a bit of malaise. I think it's just a combination of the time of the year, general stresses and the like.

I get cheered up quickly when I think of good people I know...LJ folks, not to mention phone calls or hanging out with Danny really energize me and return my thoughts to an even keel. (Usually... sometimes Danny and I commiserate to a point of being mutually cranky...or at least mutually tired.)

Coworkers are a mixed bunch... GG and TD are cool, but the higher much-a-mucks have been really stressed lately, and that's contagious. Nobody's really given me any direct guff, but lots of guff "near me". I have to remind myself to just let it go, and not feed into that mentality.

I've got 7 vacation days left to use before 8/25. Not sure what I'm going to do with that, but I know at least part will be sent going up to Virginia, to relax and enjoy myself. (Staying at the crash pad near Mom and Wilt.) Hopefully, a little sidebar to the Keys could happen, too.

I feel good that I've raised enough money (between my junk-food fund, now at about $70, plus the kindly donations of folks who click on my webpage ads at about another $100, and outright paypal donations of about $25) to do the bees option, Trees, and chicks a couple of times over. Unless I find an even better charity, that'll be where the funds go at the end of this month.

See, I feel less bleh, even just typing about making an improvement, and thinking about good folks in my life. Needless to say, Newt is a fine calming and cheer-bringing medicine, too. Thinking about it, I only lapse to humbug when I forget about all the spiffies.

Cinnamon Life cereal mixed into blueberry yogurt isn't as good as I thought it might be... but I was out of rice milk. note to self - get more rice milk.

An environmentally friendly paper manufacturer has stumbled upon an unlikely way to put an unwanted natural resource to good use. The company has created its first batch of paper from marsupial manure.
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The sand-colored sheets will be embossed with the words "Genuine Kangaroo Poo," she said. Roughly 400 sheets can be made from 55 pounds of the fibrous droppings.

Spent some time with Tina and her crew over at Murphy's. She was showing off her new car, and is probably going to quit Murph's and just stay with her day gig, now that the car's bought.