Monday
The early part of the day was blissfully quiet and peaceful. That’s not to say that the rest of the day was chaotic, just that it was a quiet morning.

, and I had lunch together and did some shopping. A couple of years ago (as part of an ongoing semi-joke), I told that I wanted a big screen TV for Christmas 2005. This weekend I told her that I would forego that in lieu of a projector (1, 2, 3). And that I would even help pay for it. Sure, I’d love a 42″ flat screen TV, but with a projector, I can have pretty much whatever size screen I want. And, I won’t even go into what it would do for HALO 2… Today, we stopped in a couple of places to look at them. The prices are getting better (i.e.: “more economical”) all the time. Then we headed to the Jo-Ann Fabrics Superstore to find a couple of things we needed. Okay… maybe not “needed,” but were on the “not a bad thing to have” list.

We picked up and came back here for pizza, football (The Dolphins beat the Patriots!!!), movies, gaming and poker. Tonight’s final standings:

  4. Me.

News
Yahoo! News: Unlikely Stories of 2004

Stray Toasters

  • I’m craving beef jerky.
  • : I think that you’ll enjoy reading this.
  • : I still have your glasses. Give me a call, email or text message me or send a carrier pigeon and let me know how/when/where you want to get them.
  • The art of Katie Nice
  • The words of Alex DeCampi
  • Todd McFarlane Productions has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
  • In “Trials and Tribble-ations,” one of my all-time favorite episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the crew goes back in time and meets the crew of James T. Kirk’s Enterprise. During the mission, the DS9 crew see some TOS series Klingons. Odo asks Worf why it is that those Klingons do not have ridges on their heads as Worf does. Worf brushes off the question with a response to the effect of “It’s a long story…” It seems as though it’s time for that story to come to light. This season on Star Trek: Enterprise, they are going to explain it in two episodes, “Affliction” and “Divergence.”
  • From the Comics2Film Digital Concept Gallery: Lego Christmas
  • This, also from the DCG, is one of the more amusing Futurama manips that I have seen.
  • I want to see House of Flying Daggers. I just hope that a theatre here carries it when it goes into wide release.
  • Ben Browder, formerly seen as John Crichton on Farscape, will be joining the cast of Stargate SG-1 as a new member of the SG-1 team.
  • Author J.K. Rowling has recently completed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book in the popular series. The book is expected to be released in 2005.
  • For the bad pun and math geeks:
    (If you need help with the joke, check the comic’s annotation.)

Coming Soon
In the interest of cross-promoting other peoples’ journals and I are going to start “Coming Soon” and “Now Showing” sections in our journals. For my inaugural “Coming Soon…” I will note that an upcoming Junk in the Trunk in ‘s LJ will feature a note on “The Ten Worst Products of the Year.”

Namaste.