Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

That stupid freaking clock up there has suddenly decided that it’s going to be 6 hours ahead of my system time. Is it working right (i.e. does it show the system time on your computer or something else) for anyone else?

Famous people I have met, known, or stood within 20 feet of:

Dean Dittman, a good friend of my mother’s.
Sam Donaldson, got his autograph at the Republican National Convention in 1988
Ronald Reagan, sat on the floor about 10 feet from his podium at the RNC
George Bush, ditto
Anne Richards, came and shook my hand at a party in Laredo, also the aforementioned restaurant incident
Sting, was in an elevator with him in New York City
Richard Simmons, busted me coming out of a cookie store in O’Hare Airport… (of all the luck, sheesh)
Jimmie Walker, stayed on my floor at a hotel in Las Vegas and we were stranded waiting to go to our rooms when the fire alarm went off
Douglas Adams, at a booksigning in Austin
Don Henley, ditto
Alton Brown, ditto
Carl Anderson, backstage at the Jesus Christ Superstar reunion show in San Antonio (he told me I was impeccably dressed *melt*)
Dan Ackroyd, passed by him on a sidewalk in Reno
Sleepy Floyd, (from the SA Spurs) frequented the same bar
Bob Stupak, passed him in the hall in a Las Vegas casino
Jerry Tarkanian, (former UNLV baskeball coach, looked like Uncle Fester and always bit towels) ran into him at the Las Vegas airport
Bruce Campbell, got a response to an email I sent him
Ted Nugent, ditto

I’m sure there’s more but I can’t think of them at the moment.

Michael Jackson, starring in childrens’ nightmares everywhere.
Just the tale of a woman hamming it up at the Wal-mart.
Resuscitating a drowning cat, but be sure you’re in a big enough room. Get it?
Eavesdrop? Of course you do. We all do. Well, at least I do. If you hear something interesting, enter it at In Passing….

This site has eight thousand bajillion quizzes to take. Unfortunately it also has eight thousand bajillion popup ads, but if you can get past that, go visit.

Idly searching on eBay for gold charms, I came across one that quite disturbed me. Beheading – what a beautiful thing to commemorate.

It’s been a really neat week with lots of good things happening, both to me and to others. And that’s all I have to say about that.

Unidentified orb washes up on South Carolina shore. Nobody knows what it is.
Could it be related to whatever’s making the mysterious blooping noise in the middle of the ocean?

We finally accepted an offer from the people who want to buy our lot. I’m a bit miffed because we came down 10% voluntarily, while they only came up 5%. The process of negotiation is supposed to be a give-and-take, not a take-and-take. If this weren’t our only offer in a year and a half, I probably would have told them to hit the road. Unfortunately, it’s a buyer’s market right now. We’re always on the wrong side of the market – bought 3 pieces of real estate when it was a seller’s market, and selling this one in the buyer’s market. Ah, well. Such is life.

The two year old is really being a pill lately. She’s a complicated kid, and always has been. But she’s a very loving kid, which helps make up for her temper. Amazing how different two kids can be from each other.

This jacuzzi would certainly be an ideal complement to my master suite, yes.
Pop, soda, or coke? Down here, it’s all coke. “I’ll have a coke, please.” “Sure, what kind of coke would you like?” “Dr. Pepper.”
Yet Another Weird Fetish – myopic girls. Leave it to the French.
“Fizzling can happen if the poop is supercharged with bubbles of fart gas” – the scoop on, well… poop.
Blog tool feature comparison table – this is actually useful.

I am a wee bit ashamed at how much I just spent on a charm, but it’s 24 grams of 14k gold and it’s a music box, which I find infinitely cool, and I can only find like 4 music box charms on all of the internet, so it’s rare, and it’s a house so it means something to me, and it’s vintage so that’s cool. And the kids will love it because it plays a song.

Ever get the feeling you’re trying to justify something to yourself by justifying it to others?