Well, half of one. We started cleaning out the basement (AKA “The Black Hole o’ Computers), which was getting to look too much like the “before” segment on shows like “Clean Sweep” or “The Life Laundry“. And it’s a lot better, because before it was an utter tip, and now it just looks like… something less than an utter tip. But it’s better. We’ve thrown out (or are donating or selling) a lot of stuff we haven’t used in years. I’ll even be tossing out a big box full of home-made videos of favorite shows of the past… representing years…
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Yahoo! News – Church Jury Acquits Gay Methodist Pastor Put me in the “rejoicing” camp.
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Yahoo! News – Dems see a rising star in Illinois Senate candidate Barack Obama has got all kinds of people talking. My mom-in-law really likes him – she’s always really well informed about local politics so her opinion carries a lot of weight (and not just because she looks really cute wearing her “Anybody but Bush” pin at parties). The weird thing is – I saw Obama, very briefly, on TV a few days before the primary, and thought “Whoa. Presidential.” At least his credentials seem to back up the incredible image and charisma he seems to project – which…
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Apparently, we “super-size” it Amerkins were too enthusiastic about bellying up to the bar for another bucket of lobster: Yahoo! News – Red Lobster to Trim All-You-Can-Eat Deals. David and Steve will be somewhat disappointed about this – we did our bit to cut into the Crimson Crustacean’s profit margin on a number of memorable occasions.
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Josh, of father and son team “Weezer and Geezer” (Amazing Race 4) reports hopeful news: the next installment may air on CBS soon after Survivor All Stars ends. Woop! Woop! Woop! Woop! Woop! Batten down the hatches! Buy many blank tapes! Forget doing anything that night other than parking on the sofa and hollering “Nooooo! Not that way, doofi!” at the TV (sorry, David, the madness begins again soon). By the way, Josh’s site with his dad is fun to visit now and then, since it’s a dual entry blog. Chris n’ Amander’s (or Amander n’ Chris’) site is even…
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Air America Radio’s website launch is supposedly this week. The schedule and roster have been posted, but there’s not much else at this site yet (and indeed, they still need a better domain). It’s a very weird thing, but I’ve had over a hundred hits on variations on Al Franken’s name this month, up from a big whoppin’ 6 last month. On the other hand, I’ve had 18 hits on what can only be described as fanfic from the fevered mind of Julia Child, if she were a hobbit: “orlando bloom and alton brown.” Whoever it is, they’re probably looking…
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Thursdays. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. It’s been one of those weeks thus far – my team leader was out sick all of Monday and Tuesday, which put me in the “acting team leader” hotseat. I don’t do much other than walk past her desk to check the call-monitoring display to see if anyone needs a reminder to go on break or to lunch in order to adhere more closely to their schedule. It’s a benign way of checking up on people, but soulless and somewhat degrading to have your entire worklife revolve around your ability to…
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One of the stated purposes (purpoi?) of this blog is that it’s a collection of random-access memories – a purpose that’s been sadly neglected of late. Howerver, I’ve got some doozies that came back to me all in a rush, because they’re topical, today being what it is (or was, by now). In the bad old pre-David days, when I was still living the carefree, (bored) bachelorette (lonely) (anti-social) life in Seattle, I used to go out occasionally for holidays like St Patrick’s Day. There are a lot of Irish bars in Seattle, and I lived within walking distance of…
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Something tells me I might need to have quick access to some of these feeds from The Feed Room I spent a lot of time looking at raw feeds (not live) there during the first couple of weeks of the war. There’s been a lot of breaking news in the last few days, and I don’t have good access to news at work unless I walk into the break room where the TV lives. On the other hand, I watched the fall of several statues in Baghdad “live” right here on this computer at work, and also watched a news…
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Yeah, it’s Green Day in America, as in “wearin’ o’ the.” The resident Irish lass on the team, who has red hair and has an Irish surname AND maiden name (and was married at Old St Pat’s, a Chicago landmark) is wearing o’ the green. Various people who aren’t Irish are a wearin’ o’ the green. Since we’re at work, nobody has started in on the pukin’ o’ the green, but it’s early yet.