iPod? Is that you?

My iPod is sending me messages.

As background, it should be known that I manage a costume rental shop and am attempting not to be stressed about Halloween by preparing in sufficient time. But as most people, there are days that I just don't want to go to work.

Yesterday while getting ready in the morning my iPod was set on random and played the most interesting series of songs: "This is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Christmas, followed by "Whistle While You Work" and "Heigh-Ho (it's off to work we go)" from Snow White.

What is my iPod trying to say? Or am I simply finding meaning in random events?

Hitting a Deer

Hit a deer last night. We're ok. The car's not. I hope the deer died quickly - or wasn't hurt at all. But judging from the car damage, I can't imagine it not being severely hurt. I've never hit a deer before. I've never killed anything so big. It's funny how prejudiced we can be. Arriving home after hitting the deer, I killed, with my bare hands, a mosquito, almost without thought. Why the remorse over the deer, and little to none over the bug? Is it that the mosquito could hurt me with a bite and could be carrying infectious diseases? Is it that it was small and I've killed tons of them? Hmm.

Sliding Down the Stairs

Took these videos a long time ago. Should have posted them sooner. Don't know about anyone else, but seeing these boys shoot down those stairs just makes me giggle.

Facebook

Just joined the network. And already I have 12 friends. It's nice to know that on the web you can count your wealth like that. Well, I'm now getting into bed. Tomorrow is another day!

And He's Off!

Sent the Bean away today. Watched him till the last minute going through security. Helps that he's so tall. Even from a distance his head is high enough to see. Little bit of a blip in getting him there. Someone misspelled the last name, and so for a while there it appeared as if he didn't have a ticket and might not be able to make it back in time for school to start. But then the extra "i" was discovered through a panicked phone call home to Mom who remembered the error. And so he got off fine. I'm really going to miss him. When we hugged goodbye, he said "See you at Christmas." The expanse of time struck - I'm not going to see him for Halloween (70 days away, btw) or Thanksgiving. I hope he has a great year at school.

Breaking News

It's been far too long since I've posted, but I just learned of some critical breaking news. It's even more important that Russia invading Georgia or the Olympics. Combined.


In The Know: Are We Giving The Robots That Run Our Society Too Much Power?


In The Know: Are America's Rich Falling Behind The Super-Rich?


Country Music Stars Challenge Al-Qaeda With Patriotic New Song â??Bomb New Yorkâ??

A Bunch of Pictures.

In no particular order, because I don't have the patience right now to make it orderly, here follows a bunch of long overdue pictures:

Disneyland Rowing Team:

The After-Disneyland-DVD-in-the-Car Zombie:

The Zombie's Mom:
Harry, Hermione and Ron were here. So was I:
This is the place we all were, at different times:
Cartoons come to life:
A stylin' do from the soon to be World Famous Fashion Hair Designer, Nephew Thomas:

The World Famous Fashion Hair Designer on his White Charger, with his mother:
The newest Disneyland Crew Team recruits: (Daniel's not nervous, just uncomfortable.)
See, I told you Daniel was a natural born sailor.
Here we are in the Alps.

At the firestation.

From Christmas:

Funny Quotes

If the world didn't suck, you'd fall off.

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Costumers make clothes for imaginary people.

FOURTEEN THINGS THAT IT TOOK OVER 50 YEARS TO LEARN

By Dave Barry

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

5. You should not confuse your career with your life.

6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

7. Never lick a steak knife.

8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

11. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.

13. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

14. Your friends love you anyway.

Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Long Time No See

Well, it's been far too long since I updated this little ol' blog. Much, ever so much has happened. I am back home from Qatar. I am no longer practicing law and there is much rejoicing. I am working at the Hale Theatre. You will kindly notice the "re" spelling; this distinquishes it from the Hale Theater. The "Re" is up in West Valley. So I do have quite a commute. But I love what I do. It's happy. It may be a bit sick, in fact, I know it is, but I'm looking forward to the craziness of Halloween. The commute is something else though. There was a snow storm this moring which more than doubled my time on the road. Took me two hours to get there. But I arrived safely. I must get in bed so that I can get up and get to work on time tomrrow. This is just ridiculous. Pictures of Christmas and California to come. Oh, I think I might throw in some Thanksgiving pics too, since there are some pretty darn cute ones there.

UltiMitt

Check out my brother-in-law's web site for Mitt Romney for President: UltiMitt. If the fancy strikes you, go ahead and join. You can even get your own campaign type team together, if you're into politics. It's a great site.