Sunday
Quiet and fairly lazy day, so far. The operative words in that sentence are “so far.” I have to run out and do a little shopping in a bit, but that’s okay. A couple of stops at The Gateway and I’m set.

Football Update
The Dolphins lost to the Vikings yesterday.
The Panthers are handing out a little punishment to Da Bears… so far.
The Ravens are taking on the Browns later this afternoon. This is a home game for the Boys from Baltimore. This is a good thing, since Art Modell and company are not too well thought of in Cleveland. (It has something to do with Mr. Modell taking the then-Browns to Baltimore and re-christening them “The Ravens.”) Both teams are 7-7 and are looking for a little bit of magic to get them into a wild card spot in the AFC playoffs.

Stray Toasters

  • I’m hungry. And the only thing that I think will satiate the hunger is a bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats. No… I think that a Cinnabon® would do it, too, but I have 0.00% motivation to go and get one.
  • We stopped at the Sprint PCS store last night on the way to dinner. After 2½ years, I think that it’s time to (finally) change my phone. I was looking at some of the PCS Vision phones. Nice. Quite nice, in fact. I have thought about getting one for a while, but the cost of the Vision service was a bit much, at the time. In looking at the brochures, it seems that price is no longer a factor – I can get a slightly better airtime package and PCS Vision service for $1 more than I am paying now. Yes, the omens augur favorably. I think that there is a service change in the offing…
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. We’re going to see it again tonight. And, while I am thinking about it: I cannot believe the furor into which some people worked themselves over the title of this movie. There were actually those who wanted them to change the name because they felt that it was insensitive (or possibly TOO sensitive) in light of the September 11th attacks.

    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?
    ::: boggle :::

    Let’s see… the books were written in the mid-1950s. THE 50s! While I understand that people want to honor/commemorate the victims of the events of last year, this is like saying that an Apple computer (sorry, calling it an iMac would not work for this example) should be called something else because Eve took a bite of the apple in Genesis.

    Maybe it’s just me. But I don’t think so.

  • As I mentioned last night, I had a theory about my blue bowling ball that I wanted to test. I did. There seemed to be merit to it, as well.

    What was the problem? I have been developing a hook in my delivery, but it wasn’t working with the recently-resurfaced ball; it was perfectly happy just rolling along in a straight line… much to my dismay and chagrin. Occasionally (far too infrequently), it would actually veer a little in the direction that I had wanted it to go. My theory was that I wasn’t following-through quite enough after I released the ball and that a proper follow-through would deliver more consistent results. And it did. I’m still not “perfect” with it, but am getting closer to getting it to do what I want.

Okay, off to sate the hunger beast and to get ready to face the shopping masses.

Namaste.