Monday
Today was a lazy, do-things-around-the-house day. The closest that I have come to leaving home was going to get the mail and watching the cats play in the backyard. Sissy always seems rather nonplussed about being outdoors. The twins, however, love it. They run through the grass, play under the deck, chase bugs. They seem to have a lot of fun. Lightning was chasing a bug, a flying bug, when the bug decided to get above ground level and leave him behind. Lightning jumped. Impressively. He must have gotten at least 18″ (45 cm) off the ground. Twice. I don’t think that he got the bug, but it was a worthy effort.

Dave and Jamie came over and we played poker tonight – for the first time in roughly three weeks. Jamie is new to Texas Hold ‘Em, but she did well. The final standings were:

  1. Dave
  2. Me
  3. Jamie
  4. Jess

I also loaned Dave my copies of Justice League: Secret Origins and Justice League: Starcrossed. I was going to loan him my copy of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, but I must have let someone else borrow it. I need to find out who has it. I also need to figure out whom I loaned my copy of Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman. I wanted to read it a few nights ago… only to discover that it isn’t here.

I’ve been having “issues” with the hard drives for the media PC and the one that I have been working on for a friend. Not totally insurmountable issues, but annoying ones. That has caused me to find “distractions” from working on them. But, I want to get them finished. I need to get them finished. I off-loaded all of my media files onto ‘Nine, and I would like to recover that space. Soon. So that I can put fun things (like GAMES!) on it.

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    Stray Toasters

    • I haven’t played X-Men: Legends today.
    • We are considering dropping Sprint Broadband as our ISP. Soon. At this point, we’re looking at going with Comcast. For those of you who currently use Comcast (or have used it in the recent past), how has your experience with them been?
    • From the DCG: Little Bloody Riding Hood
    • Who are the people in your neighborhood?
      In your neighborhood?
      In your neigh-bor-hood?
      Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood?
      They’re the people that you meet
      When you’re walking down the street
      They’re the people that you meet… each….day!
      (And if you’re in Utah: “No,” the ad people from Harmon’s did not write this.)

    • So what does a Fate get paid these days? –
    • I still find it curiously amusing that Animal Planet is airing a program called “Dragons.”
    • The art work of Alex Miranda
    • Jess made chocolate chip cookies tonight. w00t!
    • For : Kitty and Lockheed
    • Curious as to who has been adding/removing you as a friend? Take a look at Joule; it will tell you. Thanks to for this.
    • Leo Laporte, formerly seen on TechTV’s The Screen Savers, has his own website: Leoville. It’s chock full of information and goodies.
    • I saw the cover for Rogue #9 this afternoon and thought: “I’ve seen this before…” I thought about it for a while and remembered seeing an issue of Uncanny X-Men with a similar cover. So, I turned to An Uncanny History to search for information about the issue. I remembered that it featured the X-Men in Japan and that Wolverine and Rogue were on the cover. Other than that, I didn’t remember much. But, remembering that much helped me to narrow the range of issues that I needed to check: I knew that it was within a handful of issues of #180. I found the synopsis of the story that I had been thinking of: Issue #173 – “To Have and Have Not.” From there, I went to Google and AllTheWeb for an X-Men cover search. I found it: Uncanny X-Men #173. And not only is it “similar,” but it has the characters in the same poses… right down to the locations of their extremities. Not bad recall for an issue that I haven’t read in 19½ years.
    • “You can’t mess with the snowy knolls wolves!”

    Namaste.