October 2007 Archives
Tonight while at my parents' house, at about 6pm, children started pouring into the streets showing off their new costumes. I saw a kid dressed as an iPod. I wonder if he was a Nano or classic... he was small, probably a nano. That's different though - I mean, I never saw anyone dressed as a Walkman when I was a kid. What I did find interesting was the number of whores in the streets. Well, maybe they weren't real prostitutes, but they certainly looked the part. My mom would have smacked me silly before I wore something like that out in front of the neighbors. Of course, I don't think she would have let me go out in heels anyway...
OK, those 9 days passed quickly, as did the 4 days out in Kansas. The visit was lovely, good to see friends, nice to spend time with my lovely, and nice to do just about nothing for a few days. I don't remember anytime recently where I had so little to do - at least only things I wanted to do. OK, so I did homework, I called a few board members, and sent some emails... but really, I didn't spend too much time on it. I was told yesterday that I'm a workaholic. Sounded strange to me, since I feel like often I'm just trying to find a few moments for myself.
We did install a sweet Davis VantagePro2 weather station while we were out there. That thing will tell temp, wind, barometric pressure, when the moon will rise, and where your lover was when he said he was shopping. And all with pretty gauges and charts. And I even went on the roof and didn't fall off!
So I've neglected my blog for a few weeks (months) and perhaps I'll be around a bit more now that things aren't constantly spinning around me. (Except they are a little, but that's just the full glass of Red Zin I just had... )
1 more day and I'm back at work.
My sister said something very true to me today about spiders...
"When you feel something tickly you have to check twice, because it's almost always one of THEM!"
I'm headed back to work after a delightful day off, and to make things more interesting it's a clopen (close, then open shifts). And even better is that my department looks like hell swallowed it up and spit it back out. It's amazing how destructive shoppers can be. Oh AND, we're going to have a corporate visit.
Nine days until the 25th when I will be joining DT for a lovely weekend...
I'm a dork when it comes to TV. I watch the Discovery channel, the Science channel, HGTV, etc. For some reason I enjoy watching people suffer through buying a new home. But I have to say this, many of these shows are either really low budget or made for stupid people. I say this because each 30 minutes of scheduled show time have about 8 minutes of content. Maybe that's because they didn't have enough money for 19 minutes. Or it's because they have to recap every 60 seconds so as not to lose the viewer.
Really though, I don't need a recap after a commercial break. And I don't need a recap after a recap. It even bothers me when news anchors feel like they have to tell you what a politician said after they just said it. (Although really no one knows what politicians say anyway..) I really don't need someone to tell me that someone just looked at a house after they looked at a house. The worst show is Living With Ed. I like the show, but I can't watch it anymore because the last time I saw it, someone said something, then someone immediately recapped what they just said.
Maybe this is a sign of what our society is coming to. First it was the short attention span with the flashy quick paced TV shows. Now we're just going to recap ourselves to death.
By the way, I just talked about recapping and how it annoys me. If you forget, don't worry, I'll recap after the next blog entry.
I had my first Wii incident tonight. While playing a game of tennis I smashed the Wiimote into the coffee table making quite a loud crash. I'd heard about these incidents and laughed at them. How could someone be so careless? Yeah, well I dove for the shot and missed, instead sending items flying from the table. Maybe I should get the Wiimote jacket thingy so I don't destroy the living room...
I watched the interview on the Daily Show with Lynne Cheney the other day, and I think it is one of the most uncomfortable interviews I think I've ever seen. One of the interesting things she says is that the war in Iraq is not "an easy thing to do" and that she's impatient with the Iraqi government for not moving faster. I wonder what her opinion is of the US government then - the freaking Congress can barely find its elbow each year... Of course we have nothing to do with the fact that Iraq is a mess - it's all their fault now because they didn't move faster...
I surprised a few people today by coming out to them as a lesbian.
Be out - it's the only way anything will ever change.
