Wednesday, June 04, 2003

Lemonlye takes a page from Cassie and created a diary for Faramir.

Day 9: Sent postcard to Aragorn at Helm’s Deep. Suspect he will be v. jealous to see photo of me on beach with arm around Frodo and Sam. Haha - see what could happen if you’d wash your hair, King-boy?

Lemonlye has a list of MST3K quotes. I was perusing her comments section where someone said they’re releasing MST3K on DVD!

What?!?!

I did some research and found that Satellite News (The Official MST3K Info Club Website) has a list of episodes already released on DVD. I had no idea! I think I have 8-10 VHS tapes of a several episodes.

Woo hoo! Something for the Christmas List^TM.

Have I mentioned how much I’m loving my new blog?

I love it, I love it, I love it!

If you’re still using what some call the AOL of Blogging^TM, please reconsider!

Since I would like to continue losing a little weight, I succumbed to the pressure to join the mtpolitics quest to shed blog-poundage. I just sent Craig my numbers.

One note to Craig, I think comparing guy-gal weight loss is not quite fair since guys typically lose easier than gals. I’m speaking generally, of course.

Sometimes mistakes happen.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Mexican national may sue the U.S. government for selling him a car with a hidden load of marijuana, and then arresting him when he tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in it, a federal appeals court has ruled.

[...]

The appellate panel reinstated Cervantes’ negligence claims against the government for allegedly failing to find and remove the drugs from the car he purchased in July of 1999 at a U.S. Marshals Service Auction in San Diego, California.

Four months earlier, the car was seized by the Immigration and Naturalization Service after it was used to transport illegal immigrants into the United States but agents apparently failed to notice 199 pounds of marijuana secreted in its bumpers, the court said.

There are many people who handle the vehicles when they are seized and a contractor auction house does the actually selling of the property. So there were many, many hands and eyes that missed the drugs that were hidden on that car.

[via random act of kindness]

I’ve managed to move up to Flippery Fish since moving to the new blog address. Not too shabby. I’m not too interested in it really, unlike some folks. But I was curious how long it would take for me to move up from 0 links.

So thanks for linking to me!

It’s raining again today. It’s miserable. And people are cranky.

Lord, please bring back the sunshine that we had on Monday? Please?

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

In a follow-up from my earlier post, the posse of gentlemen (and now a couple ladies) is now working together to lose weight.

I’m debating joining in this contest. I’ve lost about 12 pounds since February (I had lost 15 before my trip to Georgia - I ate really well down there and managed to gain 3 back) without really trying and I could stand to lose a few more. I shouldn’t say “without really trying” - I cut back on sugar. Just that one thing helped me lose. Amazing.

But do I want to tell someone else my current weight? No one knows that number. I’ll have to think about this because it’s tempting to join that contest.

I am sort of watching The Time Machine on HBO while working on the computer. This is a really bad movie.

Two thoughts:

1. There was a scene that looks a lot like a scene in The Lord of the Rings movies - where the Goblins/Orcs are in their caves creating the new creatures for Saruman. Lots of molten stuff flowing down chutes, sparks flying, etc.

2. Just had a scene with Jeremy Irons. He used to be a respected actor with chops. How has he been reduced to a bizarre role like this one? Ew.

Things to do:

1. Update link with blogrings
2. Update link with BlogSnob
3. Update link with Imoods
4. Update link with BlogHop
5. Find link for camo background - check office computer
6. Remember to take lunch to work tomorrow
7. Give Annie her heartworm preventive this week
8. Update link with Creative Commons
9. Figure out how to get categories link to show up on posts
10. Figure out how to view IP addresses

There is a posse of gentlemen discussing their weight problems over at mtpolitics.

I have to admit I’m a little amused, but only because it’s such a girly topic generally.

I’m not laughing at you, fellas, just near you!

LT Smash wrote a nice thank you note to President Bush. Go read it.

1.  Freakin Jen is a nickname given to me by a long time friend. I can’t even remember the specific reason he came up with it, but to this day he still calls me FJ. Jen Speaks dot something is available, I just chose not to buy that one. I’m quirky. I bought FJ because I may change the name of the blog to that one day in the future. I think it’s got more of a hook than Jen Speaks. I don’t know, you tell me.

2. Regarding the super secret FJ site that rocketed me up the Ecosystem, that’s a flaw in the ecosystem program, me thinks.

3. I plan to stick with this color scheme as I like it for now. But I’m sure redesignitis will strike (although not as often as others are plagued by it *looking at Tony and Chewie*).

4. There is a cussword censor in my comments. I didn’t choose which words get censored, the program has them identified and I haven’t taken the time to figure out where that stuff is yet to know if I can modify the list.

I think that covers it for now.

Monday, June 02, 2003

I’m having writer’s block. There’s just not much for me to talk about right now. And I’m still focused on getting this thing in final form.

So while it’s boring for you, I will be tweaking stuff - especially the color, I’m not fond of that green anymore.

In the meantime, go read someone from my blogroll. Cootiepie is up and running and there are some really adorable pics of my niece. She’s almost 6 weeks old now and she’s starting to show her personality. I can’t wait for them to visit later this month.

In addition, my sister just moved her blog from Greymatter to MT, so she has a whole new look too.

And Jay Solo is thinking of putting together a resource page for new bloggers with info to help them know their options (and how to not think that Blogger is their only newbie option). That could be interesting. I’ll let you know when he’s ready for your $0.02. Of course, he’s still using blog*spot (when are you going to hop off that ship, Jay?)

LATER: I like this new color scheme and I’ll leave it alone for a day or two. Feedback welcome.

I forgot to set the blog to ping weblogs.com. That has been taken care of now, and I should ping with updates.