October 2006

Taking a Borders survey in exchange for a $10 gift card. How much do you spend on new books yearly? How am I supposed to figure that out?!? I ask Lee. He says, “Just pick the highest amount.” “$450?!?” “Yep.” “Really?” “Yep.”

Check your cabinets. The request to remove Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) went out in 2000, and I still found the stuff in my medicine cabinet. Kids cold medicine. Yeesh.

Why write? To entertain, to educate…vague things. For me, writing is about answering “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Why not just wit yourself to death?

I liked it better when being politically correct meant you were polite to people you used to get to be rude to, rather than refraining from despising people who support torture.

Sad to say, this is right on my level… “You and your accomplice have been found guilty of the murder of the Evil Count Disdain.” “Murder? But he was already dead!” “Technically, he was undead.” “Well, I just made him ‘re-dead.’”

The first of November. NaNoWriMo is on the way!

Why do people have theme rooms? What do they mean? Someone at work rose the idea that women have a favorite animal that is used for decor. For example, this guy’s wife collects chickens. (Couldn’t help giggling.) I don’t have such an animal, but I’m usually off the norm on girly things, so I asked

Friday: See below.Saturday: Lee had to work OT. Ray’s new bunkbed-futon-couch thingy arrived. The workmen set it all up in under an hour–definitely the way to go.Sunday: Went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science with Randy and Ray for a Ray birthdayish outing. Ray grinned from ear to ear practically the whole time.

Randy was telling me about Dr. Henry Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) today, and I had to look him up. Reminds me of that Monty Python sketch…Masons!

The Japanese have a festival just to watch cherry blossoms. So tell me…where the hell are the Japanese recipes for cherries?