Sunday
I did my damnedest to sleep in this morning. That loosely translates into: “I didn’t go to bed until 5:30.” I slept until a little after 11:00 this morning. That’s when my cell phone rang; it was Bret. We caught up on what we’d been up to for the past couple of weeks, then we talked about Revenge of the Sith and segued into comic book movies. Go figure. It’s what we do. It’s what we’ve done for years. And will probably do for many rains to come.

I got into “get out of the house” mode and showered. It was time for a trip to Lowe’s. We have needed a weed trimmer since we moved in. And that’s been almost a year.

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One year in the house and we still haven’t had a “housewarming” party. We had a Super Bowl party, but no housewarming. Granted, I am all about football, so that was a good thing. But, coming up on the one-year anniversary of being in the house, it might just be time for a shindig. I shall have to ponder this in more detail…
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I got to Lowe’s and after five minutes, I had an apostrophe epiphany: I probably shouldn’t go into that store unsupervised. It was not quite as bad as me in an IKEA, but it was close enough. I went in for two things: An electric weed trimmer and an extension cord. I had faintly considered getting a replacement shower head for my bathroom, but it wasn’t a priority item. I walked into the store and my “planning” went straight to Hell. Handbasket, gasoline drawers and all. Almost an hour later, I left the store with:

  • Weed trimmer
  • Extension cord
  • Shower head (massager and it can be hand held)
  • 1 pair of Mechanix gloves1
  • 1 pair of safety goggles
  • Velcro cable ties.

I checked out and headed to the parking lot, post haste. Fortunately, I was able to get out of the store without purchasing any of the Dremels that I picked up. I had planned on stopping at Old Navy to get a couple of pairs of slacks, but stopped at Kohl’s instead. I haven’t shopped at Kohl’s since I left the east coast. I had forgotten that they really are decent stores with good prices. I found two pairs of khakis for a very reasonable price – better than I would have done at Old Navy and a better fabric content. I’ll have to remember to shop there more often in the future.

Came home for a bit and then , her brother and her father came over to use the wood chipper that I borrowed from Land last week. They got a few things done, but needed a larger unit for some of the branches. They were also kind enough to take some of the larger branches that we had lying around, as well.

Patryck came by to hang out and (finally) see the house. We sat around for a while and talked about his latest tour of duty. Then we decided to get a bite to eat. We were walking out the door when Land showed up to see how I was progressing with my wood chipping. I invited him and Catherine to join us at the restaurant; they did.

After dinner, I was preparing for the season finale of Kojak when asked if I would be interested in seeing Unleashed, the new Jet Li movie. I thought about it – for all of 0.005 seconds and agreed to go. I liked the movie. The way that Danny, Li’s character, had been trained reminded me of the origins of Cassandra Cain, the current Batgirl in the DCU.

Stray Toasters

  • just made an awesome comment. It’s QotD-worthy, even. But, in order to protect the st00pid (not referring to Nyx), I can’t use it here. I made me laugh, though. Quite a bit.
  • If you didn’t catch my Saturday night post, I did the book meme… and tagged five people to follow-up. , one of the five, had already completed the meme, but there are still four (well… technically, still “five”) of you who need to respond.
  • New episodes of Futurama may go directly to DVD.
  • The girl works at the store
    Sweet Jane Sinclair…

  • The new phones seem to be working well with the Vonage system.
  • Is it possible to NOT want to dance/move/bop around when you hear Stevie Wonder’s Superstition? I don’t think so.
  • The Absolute Bottom 50… Stereotypes
  • , there’s a Red Backwash column in this somewhere: 31 Really Bad Masturbation Techniques

Namaste.

1 – I got hooked on Mechanix gloves when helping ‘s father with HVAC in Moab with this past winter.