Last night at about 2 am the carbon monoxide monitor starting chirping. Its really loud (which is good), so it woke me up. I was half asleep at first, but eventually woke up enough to realize it wasnt good that the thing was beeping. I got the directions, and evetually decided I was pretty certain the beep was only to tell me there was an issue ( Read more... )

Very disappointed. No Wild Roomies for me last night. It was a "bad DVD". The DVD player wouldnt play it. I tried it in my portable DVD player, and it had the same reaction. So I had to watch "Easy" instead. Easy was a romatic drama or something. I dunno. It was an OK movie, but not the kind of lighthearted fun I was expecting to get out of ( Read more... )

"The Life Aquatic"........Interesting. I couldnt explain it to you if I tried, so I am not worried about ruining the movie experience for the rest of you. My only specific comment is to say that whoever came up with the idea for the recurring appearance of the black man singing acoustic David Bowie songs in Portuguese is brillant ( Read more... )

In honor of the Sideways movie (which I watched the other weekend) I purchased a bottle of Pinot Noir wine. I also have a bottle of Merlot already opened. If you recall, the main character had a passionate hate of Merlot (all out of proportion to what I think would be reasonable, I think. I mean, Merlot is not great, but its not that aweful) and ( Read more... )

I got a new digital camera. I lost the old one back around Christmas. Anyway, the new one has a bunch of nice features I was not aware of when I made the purchase. The thing I like the most is that you can take movies with it. I assume you can download the movies to your computer. I wonder if I can post any movies on here ( Read more... )

This idea was sparked by Mike's comments about getting an IPOD. If you have an IPOD with 20,000 titles on it (or 5,000 or however many), and you lose it, you are out not only the cost of the IPOD, but also the cost of the titles (if you paid for them and downloaded them on line for 99 cents or something). Could an ebusiness be built around ( Read more... )

Julie wanted me to let everyone know she had to head back down to NC (for her mom, things are going very very poorly), so she won't be around until further notice.

On a happier note, we have sold our house, and also have a contract on a new house. We are set to close on May 13.

When in Ireland, we made an illfated trip to visit Castle Leslie (ill fated because it took us three tries to even find the correct direction to leave town to go to Castle Leslie, and ill fated because when we got there, it turned out to be a private bed and breakfast type place rather than an open to tourist for a tour type place, so we stood ( Read more... )

I read in a book (and I don't know if this is true) that the female porn stars often have real orgasms, but the male porn stars fake it. This is of course the opposite of what I assumed to be the case. Although I think its a plus to believe the female porn stars arent faking it (well, obviously they are faking it some, cause most of them are over ( Read more... )

Did anyone else see the news clip of the elephants (all dressed up) in South Korea that got lose from somewhere and decided they were hungry so stopped for lunch at some unfortunate South Korean restaurant? They went right through the plate glass window and raided the kitchen. I imagine it was somewhat surreal for the patrons of the restaurant. ( Read more... )