Wednesday : 24 May 2006
Robert A. Heinlein wrote a book called Job: A Comedy of Justice. If he was alive today – and collaborating with the late Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare – it would probably be called Rob: A Comedy of Errors. [Today] was the day I had originally planned to see a sneak preview of X-Men: The Last Stand, with , Chris and .

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” – Robert Burns

I’ll cut to the chase and just say: “We didn’t see the movie.” Among the reasons:

  1. The theatre ran out of tickets by 4:30 PM.
  2. None of us thought to ask any of the others to pick up the tickets earlier in the day.
  3. I didn’t get off work until 4:30 and then had to make it from American Fork to SLC.
  4. Lady O locked herself out of her condo… just as she was getting ready to head over to Nox’ place.
  5. Chris had a last-minute job come up at work, which kept him there until 5:30.

At least I know that I’ll see the movie Friday morning – I have a ticket – not a pass – for a 10:15 showing; God willing and the creek don’t rise, I’ll be in the theatre, popcorn in hand.

Since we missed out on the movie, we went out to dinner. We ate at Buca di Beppo, at Nox’ suggestion. I give the place high marks. Good food (served in very healthy portions), good service and nice atmosphere. I will definitely dine there again.

I came home and tinkered around with ‘Nine a little more. The video card works, but was being a little temperamental about certain things. And, though I am a proponent of “percussive maintenance,” I didn’t think that it would be in my best interest to pummel the machine into submission. So, I downloaded. And installed. And configured. Lather, rinse, repeat. This went on far longer than I had intended. But, in the end, I got the desired result: A video card that does what I want it to do.

Stray Toasters

Namaste.