Monday
After all of the decent weather that has graced the Salt Lake Valley, I woke up to a chilly 40-something degrees and grey skies. Not auspicious. Nor did it really get better until the evening. Rain in the valley. Snow on the mountains. Clouds that hung low in the sky, like dull whitish-grey blankets. Welcome to Spring in Utah.

Work was. It wasn’t really “bad” nor was it really “good.” It simply… was. But it was a “Monday,” so that was to be somewhat expected.

After work, and I stopped at a nearby Hollywood Video – I needed to feed my cotton candy addiction. The young lady at the counter seemed a bit… shocked, I guess… that I didn’t want to rent a movie. I think it threw her off-guard, in fact. She was polite, but not “customer service friendly.” I would almost say that she bordered on nervousness, but I’m not sure. No matter. I left the establishment with four bags of spun sugar confection.

Then it was home for dinner. And 24. And the NCAA Final. The Carolina Tarheels are the 2005 NCAA Men’s Basketball Champions. Go ‘Heels! Since neither the Terps nor the Boilers made it to the big dance, Carolina’s cool with me.


Dave and Jamie came over for poker tonight. We played while the NCAA tourney was on the TV. The final breakdowns:

  1. and me (we called it a tie)
  2. Jamie
  3. Dave

There was another good thing about the day: Opening Day of the 2005 Major League Baseball season.

The O’s played the Oakland A’s. And blanked them, 0 – 4.
Starting off the season with a win is always nice.
Doing it in front of the hometown crowd is just icing on the cake.

News
Morning Edition: This I Believe Invites Citizens to Share Beliefs
Morning Edition: A Very Hip Julius Caesar
Morning Edition: An Offer You Can’t Refuse – : Check this out.
Talk of the Nation: Baseball’s Opening Day

Stray Toasters

  • In talking with a few other people, it seems that many of us had a case of the Mondays.
  • We picked up the audiobook version The African-American Audio Experience from the library a couple of weeks ago. I’ll listen to it at work. I’m also going to dust off the Pimsleur’s Italian I, too. After all, if I am going to be at my desk for hours a day, I might as well get some enrichment out of it, too.
  • Jeph Loeb & the Girl from Krypton
  • Click the bunny.      (You know you want to.)
  • I saw Steamboy over the weekend. This is a succinct, yet fairly accurate description of the movie, courtesy of Cinescape.com:

    STEAMBOY (Sony)
    Katsuhiro Otomo directs his first full anime feature since Akira, and it’s a corker! Set in 1866, it’s in many ways a prequel to the sci-fi subgenre in which steam technology continued to develop without being replaced by electronics and internal combustion engines. Father and son inventors duel over the use of a new steam power source they’ve invented, with third generation Steam boy Ray caught in the middle. Fantastic artwork and a story that builds into a spectacular finish. A must see.

  • And with but a click, the satellite service is paid for another month.
  • It looks as though Frank Langella will be Perry White in Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns.
  • : The covers to Issues: #5, #6 and #7.
    Click the artwork to enlarge the image.

  • Giggles: “Hecky!”
    Hector: “Snoogie poops!”
    Hubert: “I’m going to be someplace less creepy.”

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
     “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

Namaste.