Darn it, I think I missed a really good episode of the Simpsons. I ran across a reference to it in Cathleen Falsani’s religion column in the Sun-Times: Hey, remember when divorce was a sin? Not just a sin, but the sin. The big, controversial, sexy one. The one everyone was preaching about and arguing over. The one that threatened to destroy morality, culture, and, eventually, humanity as we know it. I started to ponder the demise of divorce, and the rise of same-sex marriage as the sin du jour as the “parental warning” flashed across my television screen before…
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It’s been a while since I’ve listened to AAR – I think the mourning period is over and it’s time to get back into it. Al Franken’s show is about to start so I’ll tune in via the Internets link at their site. I used to listen to Majority Report every night before the election, too (except for Fridays, when Janeane’s dad Carmine was on). Dammit, I should have listened last night – Archbishop Desmond Tutu was on.
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Here’s a picture of our first Geocaching success story, Herzilein. We took him (her?) out to dinner at Hanafuda, then went to the village of Hana a couple of nights, went to the store, and finally said farewell somewhere on the south coast of Maui. I’m currently reading up on the whole geocache game, hunt, boondoggle, or what-have-you at Geocache-U. For instance, most geocachers have to print out the information, but there’s a way to download the page information to a Palm – this method is pretty complicated, but might work better than the way we were doing it in…
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So we drove up to the top of Haleakala, the House of the Sun, on Maui. And then we noticed that we had 1/16th of a tank of gas and we were 20 miles from the nearest gas station. So went back down Haleakala, the House of the Sun, in neutral. Whee! And singing the Adventurer’s Song. Typically, we bust out singing when things are going really, really well on a trip and we’re feeling a little chuffy about it, or things are not going very well and we’re trying to raise our spirits for being goofs on parade. We…
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I have had 34 years’ worth of mutts and all but one of them is gone. Their ashes sit in nice little cans or pots on a bookshelf. Every once in a while, one of the containers catches my eye and I find myself saying, “That was a great dog,” even about the one who was crazy as an outhouse rat. The first one, who went to live with the mailman when I moved to Russia long ago, seemed to understand nothing but peeing and chewing up apartment quarter round, which he meticulously removed and diligently placed in piles. He…
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Bloggers who watch television love TiVo. And TiVo’s just announced their TiVo Developer Challenge. If you’re a Java hacker, check out the Sourceforge project to get the SDK, and win yourself a share of the available prizes. Via 6A/ProNet Blogger. Check Loves TiVo. Check Java hacker. Check Sounds like a job for my husband David, AKA Super Hubby! Hmm. Okay, some of the prizes are kind of “meh.” I mean, who wants a Segway? And some of the “prizes” require purchase of a cell phone plan. Double meh.
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Talking on the phone just now with some guy who was booking a trip to Las Vegas. He was on the hunt for a cheap sleep, so we checked different choices. I noted that the account’s “preferred” hotels in Vegas were a mixed bag, including a chain whose nam is frequently translated from Spanish to English as “next to Denny’s.” We discussed the availability and rate at this property, and he mumbled along while I waited for the computer to catch up with real-time rates: “I’ve heard that hotel is a little…” I jumped in to cut him off. “This…
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February 5, 2005 – Maui And yes, we made it safely to Maui and pretty much went straight to Maui Tacos for some takeout and went across the street to watch the sunset at the park. Most days since then we’ve tried to make time to watch the sunset. And eat. A lot. UPDATE: Chicago We went to Maui Tacos one other time and they were just as good. We also went to a bunch of other new restaurants this time, missed some of our old favorites, and generally ate very, very well. Even the time we ate nothing but…
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February 5, 2005 And we’re about to board this bird and take off for Maui nonstop, where we’ll be for two weeks. This entry won’t go “live” until our return, however. UPDATE: Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Blog And so, we’ve returned. I’ve got a boatload of photos to go over and update, including a bunch still in my camera on a very large compact flash card (not as large as David’s card, but big enough for my uses). The flight return was not a simple non-stop, so we had a short layover in Los Angeles last night. Arrived in…
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I am somewhat spoiled for the season finale of Amazing Race, but only in a few bare details. Suffice it to say, I am NOT pleased. If what I read is correct, once again my favoritest, most deserving team did not come in first. Dammit. But then 3 out of the 4 remaining teams gave me the willies, so the chances of a completely happy ending were only 25%.