Monday
…and so, it goes. A weekend ends and a new work week begins. Not surprisingly, the weekend went quickly; they seem to do that. But there wasn’t work involved… other than the WinXP fiasco on Saturday… so it was a good weekend.

The Park City excursion was good. To paraphrase a friend of mine, it may have been the “best Park City trip ever.” ::: gesture ::: We were up there for about 6½ hours. (I’ll post pics of the day tonight or tomorrow.) We walked into some shops and galleries. We ran into Ryan again. We met Frank and Tony. We had $1 drafts and $2 cocktails. And there was football on TV. It was a good trip.

Stray Toasters

  • Aside from Avery Brooks, and possibly Eric Braeden, is there anyone cooler than Ian McKellen? They did an on-the-spot Q-and-A with him at the GQ Man of the Year Awards and I was struck by his very nonchalant he was and how he even seemed to enjoy answering questions. And, how can the man who plays both Gandalf and Magneto not be cool?
  • I completely spaced off mentioning this over the weekend: On the way… somewhere, we passed the Hershey’s Kissmobile. I’ve seen a number of… interesting… vehicles, including the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, but to see giant Hershey Kisses driving around first thing in the morning was a little… odd. Not in a bad way, but still odd. And funny.
  • There is a man at the gym who looks like Victor Garber, who plays Jack Bristow, from ABC’s Alias.
  • I got a birthday card from my sister in the Ukraine last week. It’s in Russian. I neither speak nor read Russian, so she had to translate it on the inside of the card. It’s a kid’s card, but she said “I know that you’re not 5-yrs-old or anything, but believe me, this was the only card for ‘brother’ that I could find in my village (that I liked). I thought this one was better than the one with tigers and butterflies. There’s not exactly a Hallmark around the corner.“

Song of the Day: Cult of Personality, by Living Colour, from the CD “Vivid.”

Namaste.