Frog and Goat

What is the deal with Matt Lauer? Is he trying to do serious news on the Today show? Is he the straight-man to everyone else? The other day they did a story on dodgeball. The crew threw balls at the talking heads. Matt’s response: “Nice”. This morning while outside hyping Counting Crows (Adam–the hair was awesome) he refused to wear Shrek ears (although who can blame him) but he barked to the substitute weatherperson to just read the weather. I can only imagine after every show he goes to his office and wonders when cold-hard news will return to morning television.

The movie 28 Days Later was pretty good. I watched it last night and found it to be much better than the typical zombie movie and I think that fact had a lot to do with the fact there were no actual zombies in the movie.

Tonight we’re having what the acronym-loving better-half likes to call TSPV. No, that’s not kinky freaky sex but “Top Secret Polly Visit”. His aunt is coming over for dinner and she’s going to spend the night. We’re pretty psyched about it because Polly is one cool woman. The Top Secret part is that we aren’t telling the MIL because she’d break out with a fit of jealousy. Polly and the better-half actually made plans over the phone to expressly not tell the MIL so it is a Top Secret Visit all around.

I read in the NuYawkThymes yesterday that some people have a real addiction to their blogs. One guy hid in the hotel bathroom while on vacation with his wife so he could blog. She caught him on the john with the laptop over his knees. I think possibly he was on a p0rn site and just used his blog as an excuse but who can know for sure. Anyway, I’ve decided to not blog over this holiday weekend. I’m sure you’ll be sad and dismayed by this information. All 1 of you.

I will have lots to report on Tuesday. Because we’re going to a surprise 50th birthday party for the better-half’s uncle. Because we may sleep on the porch this weekend since finally it isn’t going to be hazy, hot and humid. Because our friends R&J are getting married on June 1st (if Massachusetts doesn’t cop out to peer pressure). Because I will have all kinds of keen observations to pass on.

Please enjoy your long weekend.

So, I joined ediets at the beginning of the year to see if it would help me with weight-loss. I lost 12 lbs. I discontinued the service when it was time for renewal because it was:
a) expensive
b) I wasn’t using the service to its fullest extent
c) I figured out how to calculate BMI by myself
d) I’m not much of a joiner

I opted out of the emails and I no longer pay them for anything. I keep getting emails from them. I sent my second nasty reply to their help desk today. They are now shafted to my junk mail folder and I’m talking badly about them.

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We found out last night that the Niece is officially official. She has her birth certificate and social security card with her american/adoptive name.

We called her this morning to tell her congratulations but since she’s in the middle of potty training she had to cut our call short. Yeah, I know how it is first thing the morning. The endless trips to the bathroom because of the big cup of coffee.

It is pretty funny that it took so long for the government to recognize that she’s official. For us, she was official in the first 3 seconds of meeting her.

Tonight was the season finale of Enterprise. What did I get to watch? This:

That’s why I say anyone would be a fool to rely on satellite for their teevee pleasure and their internet connection. Mutherf-ing rain.

Sometimes you just need a little monkey in your life to make everything OK.

Why does the media publish stuff like this?

Either there is an imminent threat or there isn’t. We believe that someone out there doesn’t like us and would like to kill or frighten as many of us as possible. But, to say this: “The United States fears al Qaeda is plotting a big attack in this country but has no plans to raise the terror threat level and no details on when, where or how it might occur, officials said on Wednesday” is akin to me saying “I may or may not have mayo on my sandwich today, or tomorrow, but probably on something before the weekend is through”. In other words, don’t clutter up my world with things you don’t know.

I live 2 hours outside of DC and 2 hours away from the Virginia Beach/Norfolk area–two really huge targets on the east coast. My how fried we’ll be if either of those cities is hit. Give me news I can use or shut up.

I’ve mentioned the gazillion year old cat that we have. The other cat is 14 years old and when I got the gazillion cat the vet predicted that he was 3-5 years old. So, by my math that makes “gazillion” 17, 18 or 19 years old. I rarely mention how sweet he has become in his really old age, but he has become the biggest sweetie ever. He was always more friendly than the other cat, but he never liked to sit with me until recently. He likes to get lots of loving now and if I am home he has to be with me. Truly, I can take a walk through the house like those annoying kids in that even more annoying cartoon familycircus (really, those cartoons were funny when I was 5–that was 31 years ago–get some new material) and the cat will follow me no matter how many times he bounces off walls or furniture. He’s blind, did I mention that?

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So, the hosting server needed a new disk. The new disk has been installed and the better-half is setting up the RAID. The news that the site is back up should make the googlebot very happy since it has been repeatedly trying to access and do its thing.

On a completely different subject, I mentioned in the post from this morning how much I liked the youth radio segment yesterday. I had to rush out and purchase the track Frijolero by Molotov. And, because one track needs company here’s a list of other recent purchases:

Disturbed-Down With The Sickness
Rage Against the Machine-Bulls on Parade
Tommy Tucker-High Heel Sneakers
Daniel Bedingfield-If You’re Not The One
DJ Andy Smith/The Meters-Cissy Strut
Allison Moorer-When Will You Ever Come Down
Gary Jules-Pills

For those of you who must know, I use MusicMatch Jukebox Plus.

Yesterday I heard a Youth Radio segment on NPR that was awesome. I generally like listening to the segments when they air but I really thought the two young women did a great job with this particular story. I encourage you to give it a listen.

The Characters and the Scene:
14 year old cat with a terrible attitude
Owner standing at kitchen sink preparing asparagus for dinner
Gazillion year old cat face-planted on kitchen floor (perchance to dream)

The Action:
14 year old cat racing across den floor
Owner catching the cat running out of the corner of her eye
Gazillion year old cat face-planted on kitchen floor (blissfully unaware)

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