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Tuesday
Today has been a good day.
Sunny. Blue skies. A little wind.

“Working at home” today apparently translated into “napping to make up for two nights’ poor sleep.” I just hope that I’m not staring at the ceiling at 5 A.M. I’ve actually managed to be productive, but I’ve got a couple gaps in time that I cannot account for. Let’s do the Time Warp agaaaaain! Umm, sorry. That slipped.

I have two more days before I fly home. Actually, it’s a little over 36 hours. The anticipation is definitely building. I’m looking forward to a few days in the old stomping grounds and getting to see the old crowd. I should probably give some thought to what I’m planning on taking.

just emailed me a notice that Mike Carlin will be speaking in town. Mr. Carlin works for DC Comics; he has been a writer and editor there for many years and has worked on many of the “big-name” titles. I would like to go. Unfortunately, he will be here this Friday. *sigh*

Stray Toasters

• sent me a link to Pandaf Golf II yesterday. This game is like video crack – I haven’t been able to stop playing it. I am currently stuck on Level 54….and it is driving me insane. *shakes fist* I’ll have to find something similarly addicting and send it to her.
  
  You entered: 10/26/1970

  You were born on a Monday
  under the astrological sign Scorpio.
  Your Life path number is 8.

  The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2440885.5.
  The golden number for 1970 is 14.
  The epact number for 1970 is 22.
  The year 1970 was not a leap year.

  As of 5/3/2004 3:41:38 PM CDT
  You are 33 years old.
  You are 403 months old.
  You are 1,749 weeks old.
  You are 12,243 days old.
  You are 293,847 hours old.
  You are 17,630,861 minutes old.
  You are 1,057,851,698 seconds old.

  There are 176 days till your next birthday
  on which your cake will have 34 candles on it.

  Those 34 candles produce 34 BTU’s,
  or 8,568 calories of heat (that’s only 8.5680 food calories!) .
  You can boil 3.89 US ounces of water with that many candles.

  There are 236 days till Christmas 2004!

  The moon’s phase on the day you were
  born was waning crescent.

  To try it for yourself, click here.

• Lore Brand Comics
  The strip is updated on Thursdays; check out the Archive.
  Check out The Slumbering Lungfish, another site of his, too.

• By way of Slashdot: Rescuers prep for hybrid car accidents
• Also by way of Slashdot: Directed Sound
• Roger’s Profanisaurus – “The Ultimate Swearing Dictionary”
• Weird Movie Stuff (movie trivia)
  It would be interesting to compare his list to the one on IMDb.

• In today’s “I wasn’t expecting this” news: This.
• Bathroom Graffiti
• I like independent films. There’s something about the “rough edge” that they have – yet many/most mainstream films lack – that makes them appealing. This is not to say that I don’t like mainstream movies, however.

  Independent films like SuperTalk and Batman: Dead End remind me of fan fiction. But, I enjoy them, too. But, I was a little surprised (and amused) to see G.I. Joe: Special Missions 1 as one of the offerings on Comics2Film’s C2F Cinema. I’ll have to check it out and see if it is as good… um… bad… “whatever”… as the 80s cartoons.

That’s a wrap. At least for now.

Namaste.

Sunday’s end was good: I saw Mean Girls with , , , , Larry and Mycah. It was good. No, really. It was better than I expected. After the movie, we adjourned to Greenhouse Effect for coffee and chat. We were joined by , , Maddox and Tim (a friend of Maddox’). I can’t say for sure, but I think that our conversations may have been responsible for clearing off the patio. *shrug* That just meant more space for us and fewer outside conversations to talk above.

In Sunday’s post, I completely spaced off mentioning Saturday’s end. Bowling was good… towards the end of the session. My first few games were a struggle; I’m not sure why. I couldn’t seem to find my rhythm. The last two games, however, were much more in sync. The scores: 140-129-137-146-105-173/189 (ironman). MUCH better. Breakfast was good. We met Melody (not ), the new night manager at Cheers; she seems nice. We also found out that it was Jon’s last night there. This is a good/bad thing: We like having Jon as our server, but he found a better job. We wish him well in his new endeavor. And, we’ll probably get to see him at more extracurricular activities than we did when he was working at V.I.

Stray Toasters

• Carolina-bound in three more days. I’m starting to get excited about going home. You wouldn’t think that I had just been there a few months ago.
• Sinfest amuses me.
• sent me this Sunday afternoon: Ouch!
• It’s a car!
  It’s a boat!
  It’s… both!

• A Windows 98 SE Service Pack has been recently released. Nothing too out of the ordinary there. So why is it getting attention? It’s not from Microsoft
• Another Slashdot Poll. Geeky, but amusing.
• I’m listening to Off the Beat‘s version of The Impression That I Get. A cappella. I’ve had it for a while, but never really gave it much of a listen. It’s pretty good. Of course, that could just be the a cappella music fan in me.
• …and it’s really amusing that the next song is Onyx’ Slam. Can you say “Diametrically opposed,” boys and girls?
• Justice League Unlimited news
• I want to play Railroad Tycoon… but really should do some work.

Quote of the Day
: Faster than a speeding O.B….

Blue skies and gentle landings.

Sunday
And a lovely one, at that.

After having frozen mocha goodness a few days ago, it seems as though the bug is back. *twitch* I went to the B&B for another hit. Taaaaaasty. I hopped on I-215 for what I figured to be a quick jaunt over to Borders.

Boy was I wrong…

The interstate had turned into a parking lot at Redwood. Which was odd. Especially for a Sunday. Accident? Construction? Roadblock? No idea. And because of the sound-dampening walls along the side of the road, I couldn’t see what was going on around the bend. As I got a little farther down the road, I could see that they had closed off all but one of the lanes; it’s a four-lane highway. *braincramp* A little farther and I could see “why” the lanes were closed: They were unstriping/restriping the road.

On to Borders! I showed Charlie the tattoo design… and he liked it. Hoo-AH! I still have to figure out the “spelling” of a couple of words in katakana, but it’s pretty much done. I also talked with Zont’l for a bit about some of the differences between the East Coast and the Land Behind the Zion Curtain; she agrees with me on most points.

On the way home, Limelight came on the radio. Naturally, I turned it up and drummed on the steering wheel and sang along as I cruised down Redwood. Not only is it one of my favorite Rush songs, it’s a one of my favorite driving songs.

Talked with the parental units. Told Mom when I’d arrive on Thursday; made travel arrangements for Dad to fly out to OKC to drive back with Adam. Heard a few preliminary details about Rana’s wedding. All-in-all, things seem (relatively) quiet on the eastern front.

Time to meet up with the Sunday night group and storm the theatre.

Namaste.

Happy May Day to all.

So far, the day has been very good.

I went up to Sunset to visit . (Does that make his place the AgrobatCave? *shrug*) We chatted while his sons played videogames and watched cartoons.

I drove back to the SL Valley… and decided that it was too nice a day to be cooped up in the apartment. Thus, I went for a drive. I headed into Utah County. I wound up in the Highland/Alpine area. They are building a lot of houses there. And, not surprisingly, a lot of ward houses. The unusual thing was: There were tons of signs designating school crosswalks. I didn’t see any schools. *boggle* I wound up coming back through Pleasant Grove, Lindon and Orem before making my way back to the highway and back to Salt Lake.

It was good to get out and enjoy the warm weather and blue sky. The only thing that would have made it better: Wind. I had hoped to fly my kite while I was out. But, since that requires wind – and there wasn’t any – I didn’t. Next time. I might have to take it with me to NC next week…

Stray Toasters

• Pac-Manhattan
  Kids today. What will they think of next? I just hope that it isn’t Donkey Hong Kong…

• And yet more A Modest Destiny
• …and, , click here.

Time to get ready for 2-D Physics.

Namaste.

Friday
Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb razor ‘cross my head
Found my way downstairs the hall and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
(With apologies to The Beatles)

Today was a good day and a good way to end the week.

Swung by the office to check the mail; there was nothing there of note. From there it was off to Beans & Brews for a cup of frozen mocha goodness – the first B&B frozen mocha I’ve had in far too long. was there; we chatted for a while. And in the “I know that I’ve seen you somewhere before…” category: One of the staff at this B&B looked really familiar… but I couldn’t place her face. It eventually dawned on me: She used to work at the South Jordan B&B. I hate it when I see someone that I recognize but I can’t remember the whys and wherefores.

Back to work.
(words…words… words….)

After work, met up with the usual suspects – and a few unusual ones – for coffee. I didn’t get to work on my drawing very much (I was playing goalie for a certain 2-year-old, more on this in a minute), but was able to help me out with a slight problem I had with proportions.

As I mentioned above, I spent part of my time watching Gabe. Which, usually, is amusing and fun. Tonight was no different. On one of our excursions around the store, he sat down next to a couple on the stairs… and just started talking with them. I wished that I had my camera handy.

Stray Toasters

• For those who missed it the last time (or just plain ignored it): Check it out. Join, if it looks interesting. Or, send point it out to someone who you think might find it fun to try.
• Congratulations to (and Zahlika) for taking first place in the “Hound Group Best Bred By” competition.
• I forgot to post the following image last week. I think that I’ll add the full-sized one to my ‘Rosity gallery, too.
  

• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…!?
  Then I figured out what it reminded me of: this.

• For : Click here.
• Yard’Tech. (Or should it be “Battle’Yard?”) This summer should be interesting. and , we need to figure out the damned rules. Or adapt them. Or something. And figure out how to handle “Death From Above.”
• Retro Journal Entry: Censorship
• Robosaurus. Hmm… it might be worth Iguanasaur Godzilla 2 (and yes, that movie is on the low end of the “Cool World-Long Kiss Goodnight Scale”) just to see the two of them duke it out.

Phrase of the Day: “Tiny tushy.”

And with that, goodnight.

Namaste.