- Corey Haim is dead at 38. I guess my favorite Haim film was/is Lucas. RIP.
- I guess V has resumed, or shortly will. My interest didn’t survive the hiatus. Fortunately, I’ve got Nathan switched to Wild Recon on Tuesday nights. (V did wind up a tad violent to suit me for his viewing.)
- “You see what you made me do?” I think that must be one of the stupidest things a person can say.
- Until Monday, I really thought Toyota would recover from its various recall woes fairly quickly. However, the 94-mph runaway Prius with a CHP-assisted rescue was rather unhelpful.
- For some people, there truly is no such thing as too much law, and apparently no threshold for absurdity. How about a bill that proposes a $1,000 fine every time a restaurant uses salt in food preparation?
- The Obama administration’s war on freedom and liberty has many fronts. Did you know it’s about to seriously damage recreational fishing?
- Nathan is going with me to a classic car auction this weekend (unless they’re made illegal by the federal government between now and then). That was one of my favorite things to do with my dad when I was a boy. (Dad’s going this weekend too.) I’m looking forward to it.
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She said something about red velvet cake batter.
Looks like it could be body disposal to me. You ever see that Alfred Hitchcock Presents where Barbara Bel Geddes (Miss Ellie on Dallas) beats her husband to death with a leg of lamb, then cooks and serves it to the investigating police officers?
(Wow, those KitchenAid stand mixers are powerful.)
- I think the whole child-directing-air-traffic thing is quite overblown and no big deal. It’s so unlike us as a nation to spend a lot of time and energy on things that don’t really matter!
- I don’t hate winter quite like I used to. Fun family stuff like Upward helps. Being busy at work helps too. All of that said, it’d suit me fine if after the nice weekend we currently have forecast, there aren’t any more 20s until the late fall.
- Despite that President Obama was too chickenshit to use the word in his address yesterday, an attempt to ram through “health care reform” using the budget reconciliation process is coming. I may write a longer post on it, and I may not. Nothing is surprising from this administration anymore. Our esteemed “post-partisan” president may well be the most arrogantly and bitterly partisan president in history.
- Somehow I am signed up for a “pantyhose newsletter,” which seems to be geared toward fetishists for such, which I am not (you know, particularly, but who doesn’t like the line up the back?). I have no idea how this happened, and would tell you if I did. It looks shady enough that I’m scared to follow the unsubscribe instructions, for fear of confirming that my email address is good and multiplying the porn spam tenfold.
- Know what’s made for everyone but me? Ear buds. One pair in ten that I’ve ever tried actually fits in my ears.
- A group of us at church finished The Man I Want To Be, a video/discussion seminar with Neal Jeffrey, last night. I enjoyed the discussion very much—our associate pastor did a great job leading the six-session effort—and the workbook was good. The video was just okay.
- It’s National Grammar Day. Who knowed?
- Obama’s latest dog and pony show health care summit is today. If, like me, you’re sort of interested in the proceedings, but are fairly confident you haven’t the stomach for the unabridged event, The Corner and Critical Condition at National Review Online should both be excellent places for liveblogging. If you have any trouble and want to know what you should think, feel free to email me or comment and I’ll tell you. I’m a giver.
- Yesterday morning, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano became the first administration official to publicly call the Fort Hood massacre “violent Islamic terrorism.” So, all of you who used your brains to reach the same assessment three and a half months ago: I guess this means you’re no longer “jumping to conclusions.”
- Speaking of: our proposed new embassy in London has an actual moat. The more things change…
- Locals, does it seem like the Canada geese never “passed through”? Haven’t they been here continuously for too many months now?
- Hammer down on the war on photography. As usual, Great Britain is “leading.” How about going to jail for ten years for taking a photograph of a police officer? That’s hardly far-fetched.
- Twenty years ago an old boss told me a “no soap radio” joke. I never got it, and have occasionally wondered about it since. When I finally wondered in front of a computer and Googled it recently, I learned there was nothing to get. The joke is that it isn’t a joke. I never pretended to get it, though if she’d had convincing co-conspirators, I might have.
- My loss for February is looking modest, though in the correct direction. Given that I got back a lot of January’s loss in the first part of this month and then had to lose it again, I’m not particularly disappointed.
- Apart from the transport controls, when I click something in Windows Media Player it almost never does what I expect it to. I’ve been using computers for more than 30 years, and GUIs for more than 25, and I can’t recall having a poorer sustained relationship with a program.
- I generally like foods for which lime or vanilla are the primary flavors. However, if it’s a lime or vanilla variety of a food for which something else is the primary flavor, then I find it cloying. “A hint of” lime or vanilla roils my tummy reliably enough that I just stay away now.
- I haven’t been nearly as good as I’d like in February on diet and activity. Rather than getting discouraged and quitting, I’m hunkering down. That’s what you do with slow-burn, forever situations.
- Giving up alcohol for Lent certainly won’t hurt.
- However, my renewed interest in the bread machine isn’t particularly helpful.
- Nathan learned a bit about Helen Keller in school, and is fascinated with her. He was delighted when I told him we only lived a short ride from her house. We planned to go Monday. So it snowed.
- Obama’s health care “summit” of February 25 is widely regarded as a trap for the GOP, but I think they can win it outright. I’m pleased to see some prominent agreement.
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