Thursday, June 12, 2003

I was all set for some extra love for Annie tonight given the whole Harry thing. She’s a royal pain in the rear, but I love her to death and she cracks me up too many times.

So I walked in the door to her frantic whining - she had left me two gifts, in both liquid and solid form.

No extra love...stupid mutt.

I was listening to Sean Hannity on the way home and he did his Man on the Street^TM segment.

He was talking to this 32 year old stay-at-home mom. He started with his standard, “Who’s the Vice President of the United States?”

Her answer: I can’t think of his name, but if you pointed him out, I would know him.

Later he asked: Do you know who Colin Powell is?

HER: He’s the Something to do with Government Guy^TM.

Beautiful…

SEAN: Do you know who Richard Cheney is?

HER: He’s the Secretary of Something^TM.

Lord, help us.

There was a guy he was talking to that he asked not to vote anymore. Heh.

First, we had one of those 15 minute severe thunderstorms while I was driving home. There’s a rather long section of the Beltway (I-495 South/West) that is under construction, so there are jersey barriers on both sides of the road (which is 4 lanes wide). The rain was coming down so hard that there was standing water about an inch deep in places - there’s nowhere for it to drain. The result? Traffic was at a crawl, which is not normal for that side of the highway.

Second, I heard on the radio that there was a 15-18 car pile-up on I-270 in Maryland. Now I’m about to bring upon me the wrath of Marylanders, but they have more accidents than Virginia. (I don’t know if there are numbers to back that up, but I know that I hear about more in MD than VA, so I’m sticking with my general statement.) I’m very, very thankful that I never have to deal with that traffic.

Consumed so far:

Chicken Quesadillas from Baja Fresh
Vanilla Diet Coke (2) (I’m totally in love with this product.)

Dinner will be cereal, I’m guessing.

Oh, and we noticed a Chipotle that’s soon to open near the ‘rents. Yay!

Today we mourn.

I won’t go on about it too much, but Mom and I took Harry to the vet, who confirmed that it was time. So that was a comfort for me (and I think for Mom too). There were quite a few tears shed and I know there will be many more.

I had a good cathartic cry on the way to the office (it is a long drive), so when my caring coworkers inquired about him I was able to hold it together.

But it’s a sad, sad day for our family.

If you pray, please do so for my Mom. Although we all claimed him as the family pooch, he was hers (she was his, really).

OK, enough of the sad stuff…

I was at Books-A-Million.com looking for the link to the book I’m currently reading and discovered that The Two Towers DVD is coming out in AUGUST!

Now, this is not the extended version, I don’t know when that’s coming out, but this is still good news. Especially for folks like Lemonlye-the-brilliant-parodyer!

Woo Hoo!

Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Day Three was going well until the Generous George’s lunch. I split a pasta with KR, but still, the carbs.

Then LW taunted me by pointing at the Good Humor Reese’s ice cream bar that has been calling my name for the past week up at the Big Toe^TM. I thought it needed to be put out of it’s misery and loneliness, so I ate it. Those things are GOOD.

I have no idea what dinner is going to be. I hate diets. What was I thinking?

We have a huge parking garage under the courthouse. All Court employees and contractors are able to park in the garage. Some of the offices have to pay for their parking, so those folks have designated spots. The rest of us just park in a first come, first served basis. Until tomorrow.

Over the past few months there have been disputes and battles over the parking turf. So last week there was a big meeting between the various parties and the spots were divvied out. Almost immediately signs started popping up over spots. We put up our signs today.

The cool thing is that I now get to park in a better place than I had been before. But we’re talking about government people, so there will be those that complain that they are no longer able to park in the spot that they’ve parked in for the past seven years.

The next week is going to be very interesting…

Outside the Beltway has linked to the latest Dilbert newsletter where Scott Adams posted a column about the rich versus the poor and where terrorism fits in with economics. An excerpt:

Like the proverbial dog chasing a car, the Induhviduals haven’t considered what would happen if they caught one. For example, let’s say they (the Induhviduals, not the dogs) accomplish their stated goal of destroying the economies of the Western world. Is that really a good plan for people who live in a desert and import most of their food?

Just for the record, if I’m down to my last potato, I’m not sharing it with a guy who wants to kill me so he can get a better supply of virgins in paradise. That lesson is a little thing I call Economics 101, infidel style.

LW and I were out making deposits and picking up lunch when she got a call on her cell phone from her husband. He wanted to have her email his mother (or something like that) because his mom needed her email address.

LW said, “She already has my email address.”

LW Hubby, “Yeah, but her computer...toppled down.”

She told me that and I cracked up, “Crashed? (Much more uproarious laughter) Can I blog this?”

LW, “Absolutely, that’s the kind of thing that should be blogged.”

I’m fooling around with a new masthead so it might look a little weird today. I’ll finalize and fix it tonight at home.

LATER: I must have deleted the original masthead file from my server. I renamed it, but it’s now showing up. Weird. And the file is at home. I should have known better… *sigh*

Just talked to my mom. It’s looking like today may be the day we have to put Harry down. He’s miserable, she’s miserable. It’s just awful.

So blogging may be light today because if she calls me, I’m heading out to go see him one last time and be with her.

UPDATE: Mom’s going to make the appointment with the vet for tomorrow morning. I’ll be taking them.

LATER: Thanks for the many sympathetic messages, both here and via email. I appreciate it greatly. Harry will be missed. I’m dreading tomorrow.

Wow.

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

*tumbleweeds are tumbling down the dusty road*

It’s quiet in Bloggerville tonight.

Where is everyone?

Apparently you all have lives to live. Go figure…

As I was driving home from work I thought of a few things I could blog about, but upon later reflection I decided they were too lame even for me. Be thankful.

Of course, this is lame too. Get over it…

TWO SECONDS AFTER CLICKING THE SEND BUTTON: Really, I’m trying to resist a new rant that’s not really that new about Hillary.

Resist, resist, resist...it’s so hard to do. *sigh*

The gals at Right We Are (Maripat, more specifically) have published the obituary for our fine friend, Common Sense. Go read it.