Sunday
The clock slowly ticks off the last vestiges of the weekend.

This has been a good weekend. I went to The Bookshelf with Perry and Max on Saturday. That was after a trip to the local Beans & Brews, however. We got in late (3:00 AM) from seeing Superman and I was up a little after 9:00 to go to Ogden and there was way too much blood in my caffeinestream. I needed espresso-laden frozen mocha goodness to help jumpstart what few portions of my brain had crossed the line into consciousness.

The Bookshelf trip was good. I picked up four…. no, seven…. pieces of plastic crack: Four Heroclix and three Mechwarrior figures:

And, as an added bonus, Perry and I each got a Batman promotional figure from the upcoming “Icons” expansion. (And the insignia isn’t as big as the picture makes it look.) I also finally took the plunge and picked up a copy of X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, one of the best one-shot stories that Marvel Comics has ever produced. They adapted part of the story and characters into the plot of X2: X-Men United. I had a copy of it years ago, but I don’t know what happened to it. But, now, I have a copy again. This makes me happy.

After that, we came back to SLC so that and I could help move. By the time that we got there, they were done. She had members of her family there and they got everything moved in one trip. So, instead of moving, , and I picked up and headed to Cafe Med for dinner; met us there. After dinner, we went back to Nyx’ to wait for and Chris to get back from helping a friend move. They arrived a short while later. And they weren’t in the best of moods. We chatted for a while and then we all headed to Cheers for breakfast. Bad hair, worse outfits… and The Singles. And there was the crazy-looking/-acting guy with the knife/machete, too. So, it was basically “Just another night at the V.I.”

Today, I woke up with a headache (…like my head against a board). Nothing too major, but it was there. I finished working on a computer for and then took it over to her new place. We headed back to pick up and get something for lunch. We picked up and went to Tres Hombres. Lunch was good, as was the company. Back to Nox’ for a while and then we headed home.

Stray Toasters

  • I’m not too happy with the Palm Desktop software for my Palm Pilot. It’s not synchronizing data from my Vx to my computer.
  • The Time Traveler Convention
  • Family Guy aired its first new episode in years tonight. And they even did a G.I. Joe “Knowing is half the battle” spoof in the middle of the episode. I nearly laughed myself out of my chair.
  • For : Invader Zim – Mega GIR
  • For : Monopoly: The Star Wars Saga Edition and Trivial Pursuit DVD Star Wars Saga Edition… oh, yeah… and General Grievous
  • The picture for May, in Alex Ross’ Mythology calendar, is the Legion of Super-Heroes. The 70s Legion. Thirty-one days of Legion. Nice.
  • Motel offers free LSD to guests
  • Giggles: “You know what you need?”
    Jenny: “If you say ‘a hug,’ there will be violence.”

  • Our Friday night coffee group has been dubbed “The Unholy Order of the Clitorati.” I wonder if we could get these? Of course, trying to find a… “socially acceptable” logo might prove interesting.
  • Judge a Book… by Its Cover – Pulp novel cover art
  • “Would you like to play a game…”
    If you were a teen (or close to it) in 1983, you might remember the movie Wargames, starring Matthew Broderick and Dabney Coleman… with a smattering of Ally Sheedy thrown in, for good measure. Fast forward 23 years… and the sequel: Wargames II: The Deadly Key. “Sequel?” Come on. This doesn’t sound like it has anything in common with the original. If you have try to capitalize on the name of a successful movie just to drum up an audience… then your movie probably isn’t very good to begin with.

  • Who knew that the Empire had height requirements?!   –   
  • Today’s random Wikipedia word: Maven

Quotes of the Day

: “If I had a glass eye, I’d want it to be a snow globe.”

: “The Candy Man can because he mixes it with love and makes the world taste like kung fu”

And with that…

Namaste.