When you start adding it up, it's sort of amazing how much money you don't have.

[mmmrorschach]

When I went to go see Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Which was awesome, by the way. There was one moment where instead of cheering, the entire theater went dead silent. The type of silence where even the air conditioner shuts off.) I completely inadvertently wore a shirt with a monkey on it. The only shirt I own featuring any sort of primate, like

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I absolutely love racehorse names. I had a couple giggles over Chief Lonechief and Letsgetitonmon.

You could have told your nephew that your imaginary nemesis was waiting.

[mmmrorschach]

Hahaha, I could've. Damn it, I should've! Next time.

[grrgoyl]

Haha, I love your after the fact embarrassment story. I guarantee that's what every single person was thinking in the theater.

Also love for the "Good, Bad and Ugly" reference. I could totally see it. We hardly ever use our air conditioner at home (it has to top 100 before we start debating it), so if any public area offers it we gladly suck it up.

*like* comment above about Imaginary Nemesis waiting for you. :)

[mmmrorschach]

Aw no, really? Man, I didn't really believe until you said it just now.

Yeah, I didn't turn on my air conditioner until we hit this streak of (what number are we up to now) FORTY consecutive days of 100 degree weather. But I had mostly acclimated myself before then and now keep it set at a brisk eighty-five degrees.

Because of Darkwing Duck's archenemy, Nega Duck, I picture my imaginary nemesis as a photo negative version of myself. So ninety percent of the time he's going to be wearing orange pants and a white shirt, like an escaped convict, so that's cool.

[grrgoyl]

It's okay. I'm sure now that they've shared the tale round the water cooler at work, they've moved on and forgotten all about it.

We're blessed with pretty mild weather here in Denver too. Rarely does it go above 95 or so. I believe acclimatizing yourself is the secret. Every year I used to move my work computer down to the living room from the loft, where it's 20 degrees hotter. But the new athletic me doesn't mind sweating as much apparently, because this is the second year I haven't had to go through that fuss.

Have you seen "Scott Pilgrim"? His ultimate nemesis is "Nega Scott," an intense-looking negative version of Michael Cera. They must have got it from Darkwing Duck (I've never seen it).

[mmmrorschach]

I don't think this part of Texas likes mild weather. It's always hanging out at one of the two extremes, or is on a quick march from one to the other.

I have seen Scott Pilgrim, but I guess that movie must be pretty low on my cultural reference point list because I would have gone with Dark Link from Legend of Zelda or Captain Pollution from Captain Planet as my analogy before remembering about Nega Scott, but yes, that's exactly what I was imagining it like.

[mmmrorschach]

Yeah, that's why I always get a small kick out of racehorse names that promote the horse's speed like Whizinonbyya, Follow The Leader, and of course, She's The Fastest. I also like how when a horse becomes famous, how regal its name starts to sound. Affirmed, Secretariat, War Admiral, Gallant Fox. They sound like they belong in the White House.

One thing I do miss about living in California, the fantastic weather. But yes, blizzards. I'd stock up on cat food.

[waitingonsunday]

There's something kind of badass to me about Ocean Up. These horse names remind me of the names people give their oceanfront property around here. Naturally, I can't think of a single one to prove my point, but they're so bizarrely un-houselike...though, to be fair, I guess my ideas of what house names should sound like mostly come from books like Anne of Green Gables. One thing that does come to mind is that my ex's parents insisted on naming a house of theirs Waterway-to-Go. It was across the street from a waterway, and they had a plaque hanging on the front of the house with the name on it, I think there may have even been an exclamation point at the end. I was looking through family photos and came across one of ex and his mom sitting on a bench under the sign and made a comment along the lines of, "That's the worst business name I've ever heard." "That was our house." I, um...oh.

[mmmrorschach]

I actually thought Wintergrace Years would be a great name for a house or a prestigious boarding school of some sort. But when naming houses, I'd much rather have one person's un-houselike, head scratching name than any sort of name chosen by committee, which would invariably end up being the most inoffensive, prosaic name they all disagreed with the least. I think it would only ever occur to me to name my house if it was distinctive enough to not really even need a name, when a name just happened to grow naturally out of it. But if I ever start a business delivering waterways, I have a name ready.

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I some day aspire to name something (I Ain't) Mad At Cha.

[mmmrorschach]

But you have to make people say it the way 2Pac does in the song or it doesn't sound nearly as cool.