Random Access

Monday
I slept in this morning. The cats were more or less in line with this. Sissy has resumed her 7:30 AM “Gotta go potty” assaults on the litter box…. which is in the master bathroom again. So, we get to hear her as she’s attempting to cover her offering to the gods of litter. “Attempting” because she has a habit of standing on the edge of the box and, rather than scooping litter over her leavings, swiping at the plastic liner on the opposite side of the box.

The morning was rather uneventful. This afternoon, we went to Macaroni Grill for Valentine’s Day lunch. This time, I remembered to take a pencil and eraser in… and I drew a quick Valentine’s picture on the “tablecloth.”

I also picked up three boxes of plastic crack Heroclix. Out of the 12 figures, I wound up with 10 new ones, including: Cyclops (veteran), Deadpool (experienced), Ghost Rider (experienced) and Narya (the unique version of Snowbird). This makes my first out-of-the-box unique… and I’ve been a Cyclops fan since I was a single-digit-aged kid. So, I was very happy with what I got.

We ran a couple of errands and then came home for a quiet evening. We watched 24 as we ate dinner. I worked on Jess’ PC, before and after the show. (Translation: “I wound up taking yesterday’s aforementioned elephant gun to Jess’ computer.”) The reformat/OS reinstallation was painless. Training her NIC to acknowledge the wireless router was pretty easy, too. The slow part of the process came with Everybody Loves Raymond Windows Update. It was a snore-fest. But, it’s done.

News
Morning Edition: Holy Evolution, Darwin! Comics Take on Science
Morning Edition: Journalism and Hidden Agendas
Talk of the Nation: Rejection and Its Benefits
Day to Day: Vision Rehabilitation for Deteriorating Eyesight
All Things Considered: A Woman’s Metamorphosis into the ‘Butterfly Lady’
All Things Considered: Westminster Dog Show Opens (for )
News & Notes with Ed Gordon: Flight: Slavery Narratives Onstage

Stray Toasters

• I not only have a bag of cotton candy and an unopened bag of peanut M&M’s… I have ten (10) Cadbury Creme Eggs!!!
• sent me a link to this: Lullabye and Good Night. I laughed. A lot. (Broadband recommended.)
• Nyx also sent a link to The Official Mahatma Gandhi eArchive.
• Because I’m a railroad buff (and because it’s my journal and I can…): Live Steamers Club in Los Angeles and Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum
• And because is such a Bruce Campbell fan: Campbell’s Screaming Brain
• For : Vimanarama #1
• For : Geeking Out for Episode 3
• From boingboing.net (and the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” file): Coat with static quills that stand up and shoot lighting when wearer is threatened
• : I saw these and thought immediately of you.
• Forgive me, Blessed Mother, for I covet. JLA Gift Set… with John Stewart.
• Earth Share
• …and because is a Batman fan, too: Batman Marionette and this.
• …and for , the resident Catwoman fan: cover and figure.
• …and for , my fellow 21^st Century Legionnaire: This.
• To me, this just says, “Who’s next…?”
• I think that will appreciate this:
  “Eh… It’s no bow, but it’ll do…”
  

• “And the only words of that sentence that my brain chose to interpret were ‘I’ and ‘Tom’s.’ “
  

• Gamers of the world, rejoice: Xbox2 will release “in late October, early November
• Are you a fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? If so, Disney’s looking for you.

It’s early and I have to get up later, so…

Namaste.