Thursday
We awoke to yet more snow.
And that means…

Shoveling!!!

I shoveled the entire driveway and sidewalk and part of our neighbor-to-the-north’s walk. The whole thing took about twenty minutes. And, that even includes the time it took to walk down a couple of houses and ask one of our senior neighbors if she needed help with her driveway; she declined, saying (with a smile): “I’m only pushing the snow.” But, I had to offer.

I spent the late hours of the evening enjoying a mocha latte and a powdered sugar and cinnamon crepe in the company of , and .

News
Morning Edition: Soldiers Set Up Makeshift Tattoo Parlor in Baghdad
Day to Day: Slate’s Moneybox: The Gift Card Blessing, Curse

USA Today: Appeals court throws out Andrea Yates conviction
USA Today: Magazine names Seattle as fittest city, Houston as fattest
USA Today: Warnings about toilet brush, scooter win Wacky awards

BBC News: Mandela’s eldest son dies of AIDS
BBC News: Physics goes in search of ‘cool’
BBC News: Poverty fight ‘neglects science’

Stray Toasters

  • For a few years, I’ve toyed with the idea of making a chess set. Not from scratch, mind you. Well, not totally from scratch – I want to make the board out of wood and ceramic tile. For the pieces, I have considered using fantasy RPG miniatures to do a “good vs. evil” kind of set.

    This afternoon, I was thinking about the Heroclix figures that I am collecting and I had an apostrophe epiphany: I can make a comic book geek’s dream chess set: The Justice League vs. The Avengers. It made my inner nine-year-old smile. It even made my outer thirty-four-year-old smile, too!

  • I looked under chairs.
    I looked under tables.
    I tried to find the key
    To fifty million fables…

  • : I’m not sure if you’re still a fan of theirs, but Bowling for Soup will be in concert at In The Venue on Wednesday, 26 Jan 05. Tickets are $13.50 in advance and $15 the day of the show.
  • The Rolling Stones’ Beast of Burden came on the radio the other day. At some point, I started only half-paying attention to the song. When the chorus came up, instead of hearing

    I’ll never be your beast of burden

    … I heard …

    I’ll never be your Easter Bunny

    It made me laugh a lot.

  • I dislike getting forwarded emails with eleventy-seven sets of headers in them. Sure, I know that you’re forwarding that “cute” or “fun” or “neat” or… “something” email that someone sent you. That’s fine. What I do not need is the name and/or email address of every monkey-squeezin’ person that they sent it to or from whom they received it originally.
  • , I have to admit that you were on to something a few months ago: Joss Whedon does a good job with everyone’s favorite children of the atom.
  • …and speaking of the Marvel’s Merry Mutants: Phoenix: Endsong #1 Sells Out
  • forwarded me this link of before and after pictures of areas where the southeast Asia tsunami struck. Wow.
  • The Stepford Missionaries. (…with a GMTA *nod* to )
  • For …

  • Kevin Spacey has been named to play Lex Luthor in Bryan Singer’s upcoming Superman movie. I can (easily) live with that. The only question now is will he be the classic criminal scientist/mastermind or will he be the wealthy industrialist? And… will Singer make any moves to show Luthor as the President of the United States?

Quote of the Day

We are the custodians of our life’s meaning.
    – Unknown

Namaste.