The Blog With No Name

Heh heh heh….we were visiting the in-laws yesterday for Thanksgiving. They have a big outside dog, inflicted upon them a few years ago by their other son, and now a little shih-tzu (sp?) that he inflicted upon them, oh, last summer? Something like that. Annoyingly named “Snuggles” (blech). The spouse and the kids had just about gotten me resigned to the fact that we would bring Snuggles home with us this time. I am not enthusiastic about owning any pet other than a fish, just so you know. [Everyone else (husband and daughter, that is; son is too smart to want to spend his time picking up dog poop) SWEARS they will take care of it, I won't have to lift a finger, but I scoff at them - I know the truth.]

So anyway, the spouse starts picking up dog toys, and asking about food, and shots, and looking for the leash, and all that, and my MIL starts ::crying:: Turns out she can’t part with the little furball after all!! Ha ha ha ha!!!! So I have a reprieve that will last until spouse and daughter can find a nice beagle at a local shelter I suppose. Sigh.

I was at choir practice last night (I think it is a LAW that choir rehearsals take place on Wednesday nights), and it came up in discussion that one of the little old ladies in our congregation had been in the Pacific theater during the war, as a nurse in Korea and on an island (Tinian?) where the atomic bombs were actually assembled. It was like learning that Miss Marple had been a kung-fu fighter in her youth, or something. Wild.
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Now that we have a wireless home network of sorts, I simply YEARN for a wifi-capable Palm, so that I can send people lunch invitations while lounging on the couch, and look up recipes from the kitchen. Although, a flat panel display in the kitchen (where to hang it?) would be nice too…wireless keyboard, or Wacom tablet… oh to win a lottery.

In case I haven’t ever told you this, I tend to look at the BBC News web site for news. I must say, they have a weird take on the entertainment biz, at least in the US (I have no idea who most of the UK people are anyway). The top item on their entertainment news page, all day, has been Liza Minelli’s, um, difficulties with one of her bodyguards. Did you just now get the feeling that you have Too Much Information? Me too.

Non Sequitur: go to www.gizmodo.com, and scroll down until you see the Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator. ME WANT!

I am so depressed. I mean, maybe clinically. We are doomed.

1. Kids to school
2. VOTE
3. RI County Dem Party HQ in the morning;
4. Scott Co (IA) Dem Party HQ in the afternoon
5. Get kids from school
6. Scott Co Dem Party HQ until ?

I Will Not watch TV today.