33

TODAY.

33 today.

Enjoy this, but please don't get me one. Or do. It's entirely up to you.

And as an aside, can you make sense of this?

I can remember birthdays going back, each very specifically, back until my 13th. After that it's a blur.

I have shared many great birthdays with many great friends, especially Dusty... jeez, there were a lot... going back to my birthday party in 1983 when we went to see Return of the Jedi or my 16th (I think) when we went to see Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey with John Bumm and Tony Fulton and got chased out of the Pizza Hut in El Dorado, escaping in my big old woody stationwagon.

Now, this year, finally... I'm very glad to be where I am... the first birthday in three years not spent in Russia, and happily next to someone very special.

Yes, that's right, Harry Potter.

No. Not Harry Potter. You know who.

And not the "You-Know-Who" mentioned so often in Harry Potter... but... you know... who.

If not, read a recent entry or two. You'll figure it out.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It's that time of year again. The time when families gather together by the fireplace, drink eggnog and share stories. The time when they have all those memorable cartoon specials on TV. People go door to door singing songs and decorate trees. They wear green, dress in costumes, carve turkeys (killing and roasting them first - it would be cruel otherwise) and hunt for eggs (boiled and colored first - it would be cruel otherwise).

All over the world, people of all faiths join together in a day of celebration, or hatred. Perhaps apathy.

Yes, it's eleven days until my birthday. If you're still rushing around shopping, you can check here or just find a way to get me a pair of these*:



*I am kidding about the Chuck Norris Action Jeans. Mostly. Then again, perhaps I should have ONE pair of these jeans to help enable me to give effective roundhouse kicks to the face. Just one pair, though. Maybe two.

Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?

UPDATED: Here are some pics of our excurstion to Dallas yesterday, to visit the Kwik-E-Mart. I accidentally deleted one pic from this set, that of the employees helplessly slogging away through the crowd in their Kwik-E-Mart uniforms. My only regret is that I didn't get a photo with Apu. We picked up some Krusty-Os and Buzz Cola... no Duff Beer to be had.
Vanessa was ogled by some strange pony-tailed fat guy.
The signs here warned you of what does and does not constitute a sprinkle. A Jolly Rancher, for example, cannot be a sprinkle. In the back there you'll see a makeshift radio booth where some jerks from some local Dallas station were making an appearance to celebrate A) The Simpsons thing, B) 7-11 on 7-11 with free squishees (slurpees), C) The 80th anniversary of 7-11, I guess, and D) the fact that they are irate that no one knows who they are. They caused a great deal of congestion within the store and generally went on and on about nothing having anything to do with the store or happenings therein. A good portion of the crowd was their crew and staff, there weren't a lot of fans hanging around. Anyway...
The whole thing was a worthwhile adventure.

That's today. We didn't know it, but there were free Squishees because of the date. I was served by Apu. He was Filipino, which is not as I pictured him.

The website is not complete, but is functional. Continue checking around, even on pages you may think haven't changed, there are easter eggs/links added at the astounding rate of at least one per day. Vanessa's site is linked from my page as well.

Heard from an old friend today, randomly calling me... I hope everyone out there I haven't heard from in a bajillion years is doing just as well as Brad and Gina are.

Anyhoo...

Men At Work

Extensive site revamp coming soon, and news...

UPDATE: Okay, so it has begun. I am in the process of totally redoing my site and Vanessa's site. Please check them out and let me know what you think! It's all under construction, right now... bear with me... but thoughts and etc. are more than welcome!

There will be a lot of fun "easter eggs" in both sites.

http://www.dancingvanessa.com is V's site if the link above isn't working for you.

A serious aside

Reading the news of late, I feel I'm in some terrible, frightening movie...

Things were bad enough, then to put it over the top yesterday Chancellor Palpa...er, President Bush commuted the sentence of his good buddy Scooter Libby. 

And his official statement, which you can read at whitehouse.gov, amounts to "I have the power to do this so I am."

The he found the sentence "excessive" so he took care of it. If you've ever known anyone who has ever had a friend or family member convicted of something, I'm sure they found those sentences "excessive" as well, but damn it all, they were stuck having to ABIDE BY THE DECISIONS OF THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM.

ahem.

Anyway, Clinton was brought up for impeachment over tabloidish meandering while Bush and Cheney are genuinely, sincerely abusing their power and increasing it through backdoor legislation while we sit back and think it will all be okay because we live in America, and they are our elected officials.

I am not a Bush basher, I have been brought around to this opinion. I am genuinely frightened of what our nation is becoming. Please read the following article, which I found this morning:

Holocaust Survivor Leaving U.S.

you got the touch, you got the power

Just got back from seeing TRANSFORMERS. Michael Bay has now made two movies that do not suck.

I have finally given in to the pressure to join facebook, so any of you who are on there please look me up.

Here's an album of travel photos I just put up there.

One if by land, two if by ME

...and by the way, I have just developed a theory for the next Harry Potter book...

Harry could be the final horcrux.

I think that might be a tad obvious, but maybe not.