Friday
It’s been a good day.
It’s been a kite-flying day. (Two times, in the name of James Brown!)
It’s been a double coffee day, too. (Two more times for the Soul Brother Number One!)
I even had two kinds of chicken wings for dinner. (Give it up for the Godfather of Soul!)

Perry, Max and I got together this afternoon to do some kite-flying. I took my fav’rit parafoil and a new kite, given to me by . I hadn’t really opened it until today; it’s a parafoil of the same design as my old kite, but in different colors and with a three-streamer tail, instead of the older kite’s two-streamers. It flies pretty much the same as the older one, but there are a couple of subtle differences – I’ll need to get some more flight time with it to get its proper feel. For a while, I was flying both kites at the same time. It was fun. There were a couple of kids, Paige and Dillon, in the area of the park where we were flying. Max played with them on the jungle gym for a while and then the three of them came over to fly kites.

I met for coffee at Jitterbug. We chatted as we sipped our caffeinated beverages. I like that place. If you’re in the SLC Metro area, check it out – it’s located at 1865 South 700 East.

From there, it was on to get from work and head to Friday Night Coffee. We had a good turn-out for coffee tonight. I think that there were eleven or twelve of us, at full strength. Conversations were eclectic. As usual. I think that we may have even run off a few people with some of the topics. Oh, well. Their loss. Although, the thought of them trying to scour some of the mental imagery of our conversations from their memories will keep a smile on my face. We adjourned from coffee to Cheers: North where the revelry continued.

News
Morning Edition: Experts Debate Whether ‘Hobbits’ Were Human
Morning Edition: Blind Ambition: Woman Set for Ititarod Sled Race
Morning Edition: The Club from Nowhere: Cooking for Civil Rights
All Things Considered: ‘Bring Out Your Dead’ : Monty Python Hits Broadway
Fresh Air: Interviews with John Travolta and Elmore Leonard, from Be Cool.

Stray Toasters

  • I managed to catch on the phone this afternoon. She was about an hour from home and the trip, to that point, had been good and relatively uneventful. She said to tell the usual suspects “Hello” for her. “Hello.”
  • I finally got around to playing X-Men: Legends today. I like it. I like it, indeed. Although, I still have to figure out a way to kick Mystique’s smurfy blue butt eight ways from Sunday.
  • Girl Scout cookies have been added to the list of tasty confections in the house.
  • “Planetary Beanstalk”
  • I saw an article on Slashdot about “Windows Cluster Edition.” In my head, that read as “Windows Clusterfuck Edition.”
  • I like this picture of Jennifer Walters, the Avenger known as She-Hulk.
  • The JLU will be visiting the Batman Beyond timeline again.
  • The Rocklopedia Fakebandica – The Ultimate Fake Band List
  • For :
  • For : Paper Magazine’s interview with Portia De Rossi
  • Who invented the ‘devil horns’ sign?

Namaste.