I think, if a person is driving down the street and looks casually into your yard, and it takes them a second to realize that you and your wife, sitting on a small bench, are in fact, real people, and not tacky lawn ornaments ( Read more... )

 NBC News Report at 7:10 am this morning on the Florida Fires:

"The biggest problem are the afternoon winds... and while it's calm right now... they're expected to pick up again... this afternoon."

No shit.

Although you wouldn't believe how hard it was to just type "row"... I figured I was on a roll and kept trying to stick little "l"s in there when all I wanted was a solid "w ( Read more... )

since last I looked at anything to do with livejournal.

But I asked someone how their day was and they said "Livejournal sums it up"... so I went and read the summary... the end.

It wasn't terribly exciting, there weren't explosions or monsters... but I suppose there was the potential for them, which is better than nothing... which is what my ( Read more... )

I know that imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery, but much like when I was a child, it still
pisses me off. Can you seriously think of nothing
better to do than to copy exactly what I’ve been
doing? I’ve seen your skills in this department, and
if mine are mediocre, yours are a paltry reflection of
that. Dedicate the precious few hours you spend ( Read more... )

They have Zoltar in the Meridian Mall. I stopped dead when I saw it and laughed out loud. Other people stared... shockingly, few people seemed to know what it was from.

Time to go make some irrational wishes. Yay!

I was supposed to go see American Gangster today, but we didn't make it to the theater in time thanks to construction and ended up seeing Gone Baby Gone instead (I just couldn't convince the person I was with to see 30 Days of Night...hmm ( Read more... )

My smoke detector started beeping because the battery was low.

So, since I didn't have that size battery to replace it, I took out the battery to disable it.

But the damned thing kept beeping.

So I pulled it off of the wall.

To find that it's wired to the electrical system.

So, riddle me this:

WTF DOES IT NEED A BATTERY FOR?!

www.paperbackswap.com

Go there for a very cool site.

Testing, testing... 1... 2... 3 ( Read more... )