This is the seven hundredth post on this blog. Surely a milestone, and for a few, a millstone. For others this blog is more like plucking eye brows. And, as is evidenced by my referrer links, this blog is like a ‘Samurai Costume,’ ‘I was a teenager,’ and of course the dead obvious, ‘ballerina needs to go potty.’ In the end, what is this blog to you? Leave the answer in the comments.
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Happy Thanksgiving
Well, it’s here. The one time of the year we act like complete gluttons. OK, that’s a complete lie, here in America, we’re gluttons most of the time. This morning Doug turned on the Thanksgiving day advertisement extravoganza parade and the kids quickly moved onto playing with toys. I think parades are boring for kids because they’re not very exciting with commercials every 30 seconds, except for when a famous celebrity is pitching something else on live television.
We then started the turkey on the barbecue and started playing Empire Earth. Which lasted for maybe 45 minutes because the gals needed us to help with various things.
The dinner was good, but now I’m so tired I could fall asle……….
Whoa, sorry for that, I feel much better after that nap.
So the gals are preparing for ‘Black Friday’ AKA Day after Thanksgiving shopping. Ads are all over, including up on computer monitors where web site ads are available.
Ahh, the joy of thanks followed by the need for more stuff.
City of Breakfasts
Last night I played City of Hero’s at Mike and Luanne’s after taking Jess and Abby up to a meeting point where Amanda, Jess’ cousin would take them up to Sherman a day ahead. What a super game, I know that’s a lame pun, but the game is really unique. I can see playing it for hours being easy to do. I created a super hero that looked like the silver surfer had a son with the incredible hulk but got costume accents from Liberace. He really whooped up on average street thugs, but seemed to have a real weakness when I walked away from the computer to go get water downstairs.
Vincent, a former student of mine, called around 11:45 and so I made plans to have breakfast with him at 6 AM the next morning (this morning). Yeah, that was dumb for several reasons, mostly because I got about 5:40 minutes of sleep. I woke up in a hot, sweaty puddle of toothpaste thinking, “What,” when my alarm clock went off. OK, not really. I just woke up saying, “what?” So I got ready and headed to our meeting place. Only he didn’t come. Instead I ordered breakfast and after ordering he called and said he slept past his alarm. So he came down and I got to spend about 30 minutes with him. Not enough time, but time it was.
So, I’m back at work on this day before Thankgiving thankful that I don’t like in any neighborhoods like City of Hero’s, glad I got to eat breakfast and am Thankful I get to see my wife and daughter again tonight.
What are you thankful for? Jokes?
Your Good Fortune
Today we went to Mongolian barbecue (which in itself sounds like a mixture of Texas and the Orient) for lunch. Jon Merkel got a fortune cookie and passed the fortune onto me. I think he knew I ‘needed’ it.
Drugs are bad,
hugs are good.
This is probably typical of fortune cookies, but frankly, why can’t they come up with more philosophical fortunes, or possibly more practical fortunes like
You forgot to make your bed this morning. We’re watching you – if you keep this up the next cookie is going to be so loaded with MSG that you’ll die.
It’s motivational, practical and keeps you feeling like the war on terrorism is still in dire need of being fought.
Or
Your two year old is getting ready to ‘make business’ right now, stop her before it’s too late and you’re embarrased in public.
That’s practical!
Dr. Pepper Museum
This last Sunday we went to Waco to see the Nuzzi’s. We went with them to the Dr. Pepper museum there where we learned that if you pay $5.00, you too can watch Dr. Pepper commercials from a long time ago. I got the Dr. Pepper without corn syrup which tastes mighty fine because it doesn’t have aspartame in it. Also, we took the kids to a Burger King where they played in an indoor playground for about an hour while we adults chatted about spleens, pregnancy and theology. Typical Burger King (Hungry Jack) conversations.
Then, as if going to lunch, a drink place and Burger King were not enough we went to a Mexican restaurant where we ate dinner. Then it was time to leave and we sadly had to say good-bye. Jessica and I had a good conversation on the way ‘home’ to Mike and Luanne’s about various things. Upon arriving we discovered that they were into a [some City of Hero’s mission thingy] so Jessica and I read and programmed. OK, Jess read and I programmed. Anyhow, yesterday was good, the Dr. Pepper was the leas of the goodness, and that was pretty tasty!
Late Night with Randy Peterman
I figured out how the ‘late night’ guys are so funny: lack of sleep. We didn’t get in until 2:30 AM this morning and I’m pretty darn tired. However, last night I took a few funky pictures of lights on vehicles as they passed.
However, after we arrived at Mike and Luann’s I ended up staying up until around 4 AM. Not normal for me, and I slept in until around 11 this morning (I think, I don’t have my clock set up, and the room where we slept is a time depravation chamber ;)). I’m glad I don’t have to drive a lot today!
Non-Sugar Mama
My bride went to the doctor today and discovered she’s allergic to things, too. Not wheat or corn like me, but instead: Sugar. Plus she’s got some mineral deficiencies, a shortage of patience with screaming, temper tantrum throwing 2 year olds, and needs some chiropractic help 🙂 However, the doctor seems to think that supplements will help balance things out and she’ll be right as rain (or left as loosy) soon.
Mad Cow Tied with Road Rage?
As the LA Time reports Possible Case of Mad Cow Surfaces. I’m pretty sure this is linked to LA’s road rage issues. I remember hearing about road rage in elementary school and being really scared to drive on the roads in LA as we went to Disney Land. I’m pretty sure that’s called Mad Mouse Disease.
Women of McDonalds II
Well, as expected traffic to this site hs surged due to folks looking for pictures the Women of McDonald’s in the buff. I’m assuming that this will be great for McDonalds sales as flesh-fiends around the world stop by to see if they can identify the Chick McNuggets. I suppose that McPorn will not be available for rent from McDonald’s video rental machines. Sad, sad, sad.
In other news, I’ll be driving the fam down to Texas where I’ll do some work with one of my clients and then have Thanksgiving in Sherman with some family there. I like to think that all of this is good for me, but I have a hard time looking forward to 13+ hours of driving. Yippee! However, I’m looking forward to seeing friends and family in the Lone Star State.
Crappy Convention
World Toilet Summit. Basically this story is about how ‘Westerners’ are fond of porcelain.
My favorite session:
“Toilets as Tourism Attraction,” by Seok-Nam Gang of the Korea Clean Toilet Association
Since I spend a fair amount of time on the toilette [reading!] I figure I should join some North American Toilettes Used for Reading Annonymously League, or NATURAL for short.