Friday, December 16, 2011

RIP

Christopher Hitchens

ferociously intelligent, ferociously atheist, ferociously sane.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

RIP

Harry Morgan

Probably best known for "Dragnet" and "M.A.S.H." I found a long obit for him (died today at age 96) but it didn't mention my favorite movie role for him in "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?"

A great guy.

And off-topic: You heard about the Mythbusters testing a cannon on a military firing range? A ball went over the barriers and through two houses etc. before coming to rest a few miles away. Surprise!

Monday, December 5, 2011

ULC

And what is that? you say. I forgot to mention that I got ordained by the Universal Life Church.

Heh.

Friday, December 2, 2011

WM Romney

Ever since I found out that Mitt Romney's full name is

Willard Mittens Romney

I can't resist calling him

Rat Cat Romney

Not that I was going to vote for him or anything silly like that.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Tale of Two Kitteh

There's Sprout, tabby, owner of Amy.
There's Yoshi, calico, owner of Nicole.
Amy and Nicole are friends, so Jesse Ray, dog, and Yoshi came to stay with Amy for a while (about six months). Jesse Ray has gone home but Yoshi's still here.

Sprout and Yoshi are frenemies. Often, there's superb ignoring going on. Sometimes, there's hiss hiss snarl snarl.

Right now, Yoshi's inside getting some food and a nap.
Sprout is sitting outside staring at me, wanting to go in.

If I let him in, there'll be hissing and snarling in the house, so he'll have to wait.

Cats. Gotta love 'em.

No dinner out this eve. Mary-Anne's got a sinus infection so Blair and I decided to wait till next week.
Also, there was no CSI last night because of the idiot Grammy awards. Boo.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Cool Book Titles

Just ran across a list of the 50 most entertaining book titles. It includes such titles as:

Fancy Coffins You Can Make Yourself.
The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories.
and
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse.

http://www.stylist.co.uk/life/books/50-most-entertaining-book-titles#content-60

Winter has arrived (mostly)

It's doing its best to snow -- big fat furry flakes swirling about, but the ground is way too wet for any of it to stick (till it drops low tonight and the roads freeze over). But we'll be back up to the high 50s in a couple of days, so winter hasn't come to stay all together -- yet.

Still no job. Faint,I say faint, possibility of online editing/proofreading work, through friends who are just setting this up. So we'll see.

Having a good time on Bullshido.net. Some of those guys are really funny. I've graduated to Junior Member (from Noob), have acquired a friend, and have gotten two positive feedbacks. So far, so good. Now if I could only get myself in shape. Pretty sure I can't do any martial arts anymore, so my options are walking, dancing, swimming. And, of course, the self-discipline.

Un huh. Right.

TTFN