Item 1. My in-laws are in town, from today until Sunday. This always causes some tension around here, as my wife doesn’t get along very well with her parents, but the kids just love them, so all’s well. Plus, they’ll watch the kids one night so we can finally go see The Matrix Reloaded. Item… Continue reading Some Items.
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X2
I saw X2 (X-Men 2, for the uninitiated) Saturday, and I’ll say right off, I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was better than the original, which is a bold thing to say for a sequel, but it’s true. And I quite liked the first movie. About the only thing I didn’t like about it… Continue reading X2
Lunar eclipse
In case you live in a cave somewhere and don’t look up into the night sky, there was a total lunar eclipse tonight. Unfortunately, here on the west coast we missed most of the show; by the time the moon rose over the cloudy horizon, it was just past totality and starting to emerge from… Continue reading Lunar eclipse
Dog Days
So last night, the dog eats a bag of Hershey’s Kisses. Okay, so not a whole bag, but about 10 ounces out of a 12 ounce bag. And they were the new Kisses, tasty ones with toffee and almonds. Anyway, I go downstairs about 10 o’clock, and find the shredded bag on the floor, sans… Continue reading Dog Days
Mental cases
Only in Oregon, I suppose. Apparently, Multnomah County needs a Klingon interpreter for mental health patients. The CNN story is here. I don’t think any more needs to be said.
Site Updates
I’ve been busy on this site the last few days with updates and revisions. To wit: Got the search feature working (finally). This is using MySQL’s built-in FULLTEXT indexing capabilities; it’s pretty slick, the first time I’ve played with it. It does natural language searches using frequency of keywords to produce relevancy scores… if you… Continue reading Site Updates
Survival Tips
A co-worker has one of those page-a-day calendars, where you tear off each day and it has some interesting content of some kind… normally, they’re comic strips, or trivia, or word-of-the-day things, but this one is a survival calendar. So it has things like “Today in survival history” and “Today’s Hero” and the best, various… Continue reading Survival Tips
Is there a doctor in the house?
My wife and I went to the Bon Jovi concert in Portland Monday night, and talk about a show. Damn right. The Goo Goo Dolls opened for them, and they were very good, too. Played to the audience nicely. Good choice to open, the crowd loved them. When Bon Jovi hit the stage, though, the… Continue reading Is there a doctor in the house?
Spring Ahead
Daylight savings. Feh. I hate daylight savings. But I thought this picture would be amusing. Enjoy.
Paint
This is the month for painting. We just got our house painted, and deck washed and sealed, and today we started painting Brandon’s room. He’s getting a light-ish blue, with a space-themed wallpaper border and bed set. Looks pretty good, so far. We’re doing the second (and last) coat tomorrow, and then next weekend we’ll… Continue reading Paint