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Thursday, May 15, 2008
 
Finally, A Little Sanity

California Supreme Court: Gay Marriage Is Legal

How much you want to bet that this becomes the campaign issue of 2008?


Friday, May 09, 2008
 
Friday's Progress

Done:
  1. Applied for another job
  2. Worked the network for 2 more
  3. Remembered the errand from yesterday
  4. Ate lunch
To do:
  1. Family movie night (Underdog - NOT MY CHOICE)
  2. Amy's Ice Cream night
  3. Laundry
  4. Dishes


Thursday, May 08, 2008
 
Today

Done
  1. Washed dishes
  2. Rotated one load of laundry
  3. Folded said laundry
  4. Forgot what errand I was going to run this morning
  5. Scheduled with junkbusters to pick up a bunch of stuff from our backyard and garage next week
To do:
  1. 1 more load of laundry
  2. Sweep/mop the kitchen
  3. Parent/teacher conferences for Drew and Fran
  4. Cook dinner (swiss chard omelets, I think)
  5. Try to remember what errand I was going to run this morning
  6. Revise the SEKRIT PROJEKT


Wednesday, May 07, 2008
 
Accountability

::blows dust off coffee table::

Been a while since I've posted, I know. I'd like to say I've been busy, but, well, unemployment.

Anyhoo, I can feel the ol' shit-eyed monster sniffing around outside the door, so I'm working on keeping it locked out. Plenty of time to be depressed later, once I've got a job, right?

What I've accomplished recently:
  1. I'm hitting the gym at least 3 times a week. Today, I rode my bike around the neighborhood and realized two things: (a) my bike is in really crappy shape, and I need to get it tuned up or just buy a new one (b) it's a hell of a lot easier to ride in the gym, where there's air conditioning and I can read a book and listen to my ipod while I exercise.
  2. I'm writing something. I'm not ready to show it to anyone yet, but let's just say it's something I haven't tried before, and so far it seems to be flowing.
  3. Keeping the house clean (relatively, mostly, some parts)
  4. Applied for a bunch of jobs.
  5. Cleaned out the gutters
What I want to accomplish:
  1. Keep up with the exercise
  2. Keep writing - both the topp sekrit project and this blog
  3. Work on the back yard
  4. Find a job
  5. Brew some more beer
  6. Make more cheese
What I've got to look forward to:
  1. Ten days until Melissa and I go to Mexico for our 17-year delayed honeymoon.
  2. My parents are coming out to watch the kids while we're in Mexico, it'll be really good to see them.
  3. If job/money stuff works out, a trip to Portland in July to see my brother, sister-in-law and baby niece. I'm hoping I can get a side trip up to Seattle to see internet friends up there.
  4. If job/money stuff works out, a trip with Melissa and the kids to DragonCon, which will occur right around my birthday.
  5. Maybe a trip to San Francisco again? We'll see.
  6. Speed Racer, Indiana Jones, The Hulk, The Dark Knight, Harold and Kumar 2.

Coming later:

My reviews of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Iron Man.


Wednesday, April 16, 2008
 
This Is A Little Angry-Making

American workers are getting robbed of jobs by corporations looking to get cheap labor via H-1B visas.

How not to hire qualified US applicants.

Why, pray tell, aren't our elected representatives doing anything about this? Enquiring minds want to know.


Tuesday, April 15, 2008
 
New! And! Shiny!

Still working on getting a job, for them as are keeping track.

It's a lot of work, that. Not too worried yet. Give me another week or two, though.

I also went out yesterday and bought myself a utilikilt:

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Melissa thinks it's kind of silly, Drew thinks it's "somewhere between cool and embarrassing", Franny thinks it's "totally embarrassing, OMG DAD WHY ARE YOU EMBARRASSING ME???!!!!" and Alec thinks it's neat.

It's a little drafty, which I kind of expected, but it should be darn nice when it gets hot this summer.

Picking up Drew and Fran at their after-school program yesterday, the teacher of Drew's group stuck her head out into the hall and asked, "This little girl was askin' why you wearin' a skirt, I told her it was a kilt, and she wanted to know are you Irish."

"No ma'am, I'm not - it's just comfortable."

She went back in the classroom and said in a loud voice, "IT'S COMFORTABLE, AND HE DON'T GOT TO BE IRISH TO WEAR IT!"

A second later, a boy from Franny's classroom peered around the door, looked at me and said in reverent tones, "AWWWWEEESSOMMME!!!!"

We're thinking about a hike this weekend - if we go, I'll try to have some action shots of Das Kilt to post.


Friday, April 04, 2008
 
Gone Too Soon

Forty years ago today.

We've come a long way, but there's a long way to go yet.



Wednesday, April 02, 2008
 
I Do This For You

I saw 10,000 B.C. today.

Why do I do things like this? So you won't have to.

With the kind assistance snarkage of a local friend, I went to the Alamo Drafthouse and ordered a couple of pints of Shiner and a cheeseburger, because that makes everything better.

I'm going to recap the movie, so you can act all knowledgeable about it when some idiot at work tries to tell you how OMFG AWSUM this movie was.

OK, so in 10,000 B.C., there were these White Dudes with Dreadlocks that lived in what looks like western Montana and hunt mammoths. Some hunters find a white girl with dreadlocks and bring her back to the tribe, and their medicine woman, who happens to be Inuit (don't ask) tells them the WDwD that marries her will lead the tribe to a new life. There's some stuff about the dad of the boy that's in love with the girl going away to save the tribe, but it didn't make sense, and my burger arrived about then, so I kind of missed what was said.

Anyway, cut forward to when the boy and girl are all grown up and sexy. There's a mammoth hunt, and the boy "claims" (their word) the girl and they're all happy and in love, but then some bad dudes that all have Really Deep Voices ride in on horses(!) with stirrups(!!) and kidnap most of the tribe and kill a few others. Naturally, Hot Chick is taken by the Bad-Ass Guy With A Deep Voice because she's, like, hot. The Hot Guy and the Old Hunter and The Tribal Rival and the Orphan Boy all set out after the rest of the tribe.

They go over the snow-covered mountains and then they're in the Amazon(!) and the bad guys are running through the jungle and they get attacked by mutant, 10-foot tall turkeys. Hot Guy frees Hot Chick and they try to run away but they get chased by the Bad Guys and then the Mutant Turkeys attack again and then the Bad Guys steal the Hot Girl and the Orphan Boy and the Tribal Rival and run away.

So Hot Guy and Old Hunter (who is wounded, of course) keep following into West Texas, and then Hot Guy falls in a trap and it starts to rain and he frees a Giant sabertooth and climbs out. Then they meet some Masai and the sabertooth tells them to be nice to Hot Guy and then they find out that Hot Guy's Daddy came through there years ago, but got captured by the Bad Guys.

Now, what all the Masai were waiting for was a White Guy with Dreadlocks that could talk to cats, because the spirits told them the WGwDTCTtC came, he'd lead them to salvation or some such. This meant they had to call together the brown people, the Really Black People and some Asian People so they could all team up against the Bad Guys, who built pyramids (they knew this, even though No One Ever Returns when the Bad Guys take them away - don't ask).

So the United Nations of Cavemen, led (of course) by a White Guy, because even in 10,000 BC, they knew White Guys with Dreadlocks were naturally superior leaders, set out across the Sahara and then they see their friends all sailing away in boats, because the Bad Guys not only have domesticated horses and invented metalworking and stirrups, they've also mastered plank-built shipbuilding and the lateen sail. Hot Guy can't stand this, but he has an idea - he leads the United Nations of Cavemen out across the desert (without water, because he's a White Guy with Dreadlocks, and doesn't need silly things like water).

I'll skip the montage of Cavemen Dying Of Thirst In The Desert now.

Then we see that the Bad Guys are building the pyramids of Egypt, and they're using mammoths (in the desert - don't ask) and thousands of slaves. Why are they doing this? Because they're working for Gods. Gods who came from across the sea when their land sank. In other words, Atlanteans. Who look like Incas. (yes, I know Peru is on the pacific coast of South America. Don't ask.)

Cut through some foofraw about how Hot Guy's Father was a slave but isn't there now and then we get the revolt, where we also find out that Hot Girl has a scar that looks like the constellation of Orion, which makes the Inca-lanteans really scared. So they decide to rip her to pieces, but by that point, the slaves are revolting (ba-domp-BOMP). Blah blah, revolt, mammoths running amok on the pyramids, everyone getting their freedom, killing the Bad Guys and all that, then the Hot Girl gets shot by an arrow and dies.

But not really, because the Improbably Inuit Shaman way back in Montana has been using her Psychic Magic Powers to watch what's going on, and dies from the arrow instead so Hot Girl can live.

Then the Inca-lanteans are all dead, and the United Nations of Cavemen rejoice, and the Masai give the WGwD some Magic Beans so they don't have to hunt mammoths any more, and there's some Male Bonding for all the warriors from the UNoC (did I mention there's only 3 women that have lines in the movie? Yeah - one's the Hot Girl, one's the IIS and one's the mother of the Orphan Boy, and she only gets to tell him to hide before she gets stabbed by a Bad Guy).

Then we see the WGwD come home to Montana, and they live happily ever after and plant some Magic Beans and become farmers, thus saving the Mammoth for future generations to hunt into extinction.

It was, as I expected, a sucky movie. Still, I can't completely hate it, because it had all kinds of fun stuff - Mutant Turkeys! Atlantean Pyramid Builders! Mammoths Building Pyramids! Graham Hancock will, I'm sure, have something about mammoths and cavemen helping build the pyramids in his next book.

Next up on my Movie List are Iron Man, The Dark Knightand Indiana Jones. I'm sure I'll see something else before those hit the theaters, but they're the ones I'm looking forward to.

Overall, I give 10,000 B.C. a C+, because there's just enough seriously-presented loopiness to make it fun to mock. And it's always fun to mock White Guys with Dreadlocks.


Thursday, March 27, 2008
 
What's Going On

HAI GUYZ!!

::waves::

Being unemployed is more work than I thought - I've been busily researching jobs, working the network, all that stuff. Plus keeping on top of the house (well, mostly) and getting ready for our upcoming anniversary.

And, I just remembered, I missed my Blogaversary, which was Tuesday. Just as well, I didn't get myself anything.

OK, got to go - those dishes won't wash themselves.


Wednesday, March 19, 2008
 
Good Story

Wikihistory, by Desmond Warzel. It's in the form of a wiki for time travellers:
At 18:06:59, BigChill wrote:
Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?




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