Friday : 15 September 2006
And so, another work week comes to an end.  It wasn’t a bad one.  And, I got to kick off the weekend a little early, too.  Bonus points for that.

Tonight, many of us skipped Clitorati and instead went to help and celebrate their birthdays.  They hosted a nice gathering at their house; it was themed as a 1920s speakeasy… with gothic/Cthulhu-esque twists.  Quite fun.  Some of us gathered in the living room for a game of Arkham Horror.  We won the game… and without setting the entire county on fire, either!  Of course, my character did wind up losing his cool – and sanity – when I confronted a monster that was roaming the city… but we won’t talk about that.

I am coming down with a cold… or some kind of bug.  I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple of days.  And I’m seriously congested.  And I’m a little achy.  I was thinking about this earlier and the first thing that came to mind was a line from The Spin Doctors’ Shinbone Alley/Hard to Exist, from their Pocketful of Kryptonite CD: “My body hurts like Hell, and all I can do is wonder why…”  I’m not in that much pain, but the lyric popped into my head and made me chuckle.
I wonder how much I can attribute my current malady to the changes the weather has undergone in the past… 24 – 48 hours.  The temperature has dropped by roughly 20°F in this timeframe.  I haven’t seen the peaks, but they were projected to get snow this weekend.  Snow or no snow… it’s too damned cold… and far too soon.

Stray Toasters

  • I need citrus.  Not sure if I want oranges or grapefruit, though.
  • Sissy is being quite the little attention-monger.
  • By way of PC World: The 25 Worst Web Sites
  • Monty Python meets HALO:  HM Government Public Service Films: No. 42 – How Not To Be Seen
  • …and more Pythonic goodness: French Castle (from Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
  • …and even more from Python: Penis Song
  • I want a doughnut.  From Dunkin Donuts… which doesn’t exist behind the Zion Curtain.  *shakes fist*
  • Plaid Stallions: Rambling and Reflections on 70s pop culture
  • , I’m almost afraid to show you this… because it combines both knitting and Converse sneakers: How to knit a pair of Converse All-Stars
  • Newsarama has a good interview with Ethan Van Sciver (one of DC Comics’ wunderkind artists).  The article isn’t intersting only because he talks about his work on recent Green Lantern series, but the interviewer actually asks some non-biased questions about the fact that Ethan is a member of the LDS Church.  (It’s about 2/3 of the way down the page.)

And that, as they say, is a wrap.

Namaste.