Monday
Last night was another night of joyous, broken sleep. I think that I woke up at least four times during the night. And the morning wasn’t much better: I woke up with a headache that lasted all day. If “Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down;” ones that include a headache make me cranky. Very cranky. Not I’m-going-to-turn-green-and-seven-feet-tall cranky. But, not overly pleasant. There were a couple of times when I thought that the headache had receded. That made me feel a little less surly. Then, it would return. And I’d be irritable, once more. That’s not a good way to go through the day.

After work, we made a couple of stops. I want to find a lamp for my desk at work. I decided that I want a lamp for my desk at work. We stopped at K-Mart and Office Max to see what they had to offer. Not much at either place. Office Max had an extension arm lamp – like I wanted – that claimed to have a 26″ reach. Operative word: “Claimed.” Or, to put it another way: This “claim” would be akin to a guy saying: “No, that really is 13 inches!” *shrug* I got a yardstick and held it up to the lamp. 22″ max. The only way it would make 26″ would be if you set it on a 4″ tall block.

I wandered next door to Media Play. Maybe I could find something there to make my Monday a little brighter. And I did. I picked up the first two DVDs of Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. A little bit of animated happiness from my teen years. It put a smile on my face.

The Headache That Would Not Die lingered throughout the evening, so I canceled poker for the night. Dinner, wine and 24 rounded out the rest of the evening. The wine helped dull the fading pain in my head, but not enough to make it go away.

News
Morning Edition: For Pianist, Music Unleashes Rainbows of Color
Talk of the Nation: Re-writing History
All Things Considered: Early Childhood Education’s Economic Benefits Argued
All Things Considered: Testing the Limits of What I Know and Feel
All Things Considered: Monday Night Football Headed to ESPN
All Things Considered: Jazz Musicians, After the Spotlight Fades
Fresh Air: Messing with the Bull: Riding Champ Gerry Leffew and Lipstick and Dynamite: The World of Lady Wrestling

Stray Toasters

  • I’m torn. I don’t know if I should watch a couple of Rangers episodes or play X-Men: Legends.
  • NWA, explicit lyrics only
  • By way of Buzzscope: Take That, Ratzis! #1 – Dear Joe…
    Having just finished Countdown to Infinite Crisis, I thought that this was a great piece of writing.

  • “I’d like to make you an offer…” –
  • The Worst Jobs in History
  • And I have to make a clean break
    And I have to do it quick
    ‘Cause the pain you give me, babe
    Would make Cal Ripken call in sick

  • This is either sheer courage and fearlessness… or utter stupidity.
    My money is on “courage.”

  • “Well, I hear there’s a big hiring push for the next release of Windows.”

  • Invader Zim Mini-figures – “Now, to unleash screaming temporal doom!”
  • And in today’s “Meet George Jetson” news: Flying Cars Ready to Take Off

…and don’t forget that Tuesday is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s!

Namaste.