Sunday
I slept in again this morning… of course, I didn’t get to bed until nearly 6:00, so it’s understandable. Once again, the cats were not rambunctious at the crack of dawn. Thank God. I was awakened by the sound of the phone ringing; it was Mom. She was trying to return a call to someone else and wound up calling me, instead. But that’s okay. It was good to talk with her, albeit briefly.

Coffee and Honeycomb. Breakfast of champions. Literally. I noticed that Honeycomb is “The Official Cereal of Major League Soccer.” Honeycomb. *boggle* But, I’ll come back to this one in a bit.

We ran some errands this afternoon… including a stop at Home Depot. (We’re moving ahead with plans to remove the crappy wallpaper around the wainscoting of the upstairs living room and paint it, instead. We’re also going to paint the guest bedroom.) We picked up supplies and the necessary goodies to accomplish the task. We looked at a few borders to accent the guest room walls, but decided to wait on that until after we finished with the painting. I [heart] Home Depot and Lowe’s.

We also stopped to get gifty things for and Perry for their respective birthdays. I also got a box of plastic crack… which added three new figures that I didn’t already have to my collection. Then it was off to wish Perry a happy birthday and spend a while with him and his family. Then it was off to dinner with Nox an . After dinner, we went back to their place for a bit. Nyx loaned me her Bunnicula books; I’ve never read them, but they look interesting.

And then it was home to strip wallpaper and keep the cats from trying to sniff/lick/eat the paper and gunk.

News
CNN: Author Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide

Random Access
Chase the dreams of merchandise…
As I mentioned above, Honeycomb is the “Official Cereal of MLS.” I would have expected something a little more… I don’t know… “healthy” to be a sport’s “official” food.

But, along the same lines, Coors is the “Official Beer of the NFL.” Coors, Miller, and Budweiser sponsor multiple teams in NASCAR. (Yeah… beer and driving really fast. That‘s a great combination.) Many tobacco manufacturers also sponsor race cars but, and I could be wrong about this, the NASCAR powers-that-be didn’t think that it was a good idea to have Winston (an R.J. Reynolds company) sponsor their season… and so Nextel got the nod. *shrug*

Whatever.

I just find it odd.

Stray Toasters

  • I think that I have a tertiary superpower: The ability to strip wallpaper.
  • Hedy Lamarr dot org
  • Dad is great!
    Give us the chocolate cake!

  • Common Errors in English     Look. Learn.
  • On the way home from Nyx and Nox’ place we drove past Salt Lake Lutheran High School. They have a large sign out front and it’s new message was:

    A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.

    And the first thing through my mind was: “…so does a soft pillow. And that then means that my conscience can stay in its box in the storage room.”

  • The Art of Shano
  • A friend of mine posted a link to the anti-panti. For the ladies out there: Would you really be inclined to wear a product like this? Honestly?
  • Posh – “Handbags for a fabulous life!”
  • If you missed Saturday Night Shakespeare, click here. It’s ‘Toaster #1.
  • Mad Monarchs – “A series of biographies on the personal lives of history’s mad royals.” And, yes, they even have Caligula! But, I’m willing to bet that this account will be nowhere near as porntastic as Bob Guccione’s Caligula.
  • Blaxploitation. Definitions from Bright Lights Film Journal and from Wikipedia.
  • I was talking with earlier and we got onto the subject of ‘heroes.’ I’m a big fan of the cape and cowl crowd, but she seemed rather surprised when she asked me who my heroes were and I told her: “My folks.” I was even able to back it up with this post from my early days on LJ.
  • Helloooooo, oxymoron! Liberal Party (Utah)
  • Introducing: The Reality Bat –
  • The caption on this made me laugh.
  • Usenet and mp3 remixes. *nod* ‘Nuff said.

And that’s a good place to call it a night.
A very late night.
Or a very early morning.
Or something.

Namaste.