Thursday
Today was a good day. And it gets us one step closer to the weekend. Selah.

I got a call just after work from Catherine. She asked what Jess and I were doing this evening. “Nothing,” as far as I knew. So, she invited us to join her for dinner at Cafe Pierpont; her husband (and our ex-coworker) Land started working there this week. We did. Finding the place was a bit of an undertaking, though – Catherine gave us the wrong address. She was a couple of blocks off. But we managed to find it… after asking a couple of parking lot valets where it was. The food was good, as was the company.

On the way to the car, we passed the downtown location of Reuel’s, an art/drafting supply store. They have hands. (Wooden hands, that is.) Even in smaller sizes than the one that I have. And from the way that the display was set up, it looks like the joints are a bit more stable than the ones in the hand that I have. I may have to return to the store and acquire one…

Stray Toasters

  • While I was taking a break this afternoon, I had the notion to go back to a couple of stories that I started writing many rains past. One story will stay pretty much the same, but I am thinking of taking a new direction with the other.
  • (I’m sure that you’ll see this before you return to the Land Behind the Zion Curtain): Enjoy your vacation and get some well-earned and much-deserved rest!
  • Does anyone else remember the PTL Club and/or Heritage USA? Here’s a little hint to jog the memory: Think “Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Yep, them. It seems that after PTL went belly up, Heritage USA was simply left to… become a ghost town. Read more about it here. Thanks to for this little nugget of nostalgia.
  • By way of : Gay Trekkies… and from that: Trekkie Humor
  • Who ya gonna call?

    Dr. Raymond Stantz: I tried to think of the most harmless thing… something that could never destroy us… something I loved from my childhood.

    [A giant marshmallow man crashes through the streets of New York]

    Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, there’s something you don’t see every day. We’ve been going about this all wrong, this Mr. Stay Puft’s okay. He’s a sailor, he’s in New York, we get this guy laid we won’t have any trouble.

    And with that, I give you: this (the bottom of the list). And this.

  • “Blue Sox fans never leave the game early!” – Miles, from ‘Bebop
    It was nice to see Columbia fly again… even if only in animation.

  • Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Orson Welles have this in common.
    (Don’t forget to phrase your response in the form of a question.)
    Here is a hint.

  • Forbes is reporting that Vocera Communications has developed Star Trek-like communicator badges. Now, if they would just get busy on a transporter…

That’s it.

Namaste.